• Atlético Simeone's talk that triggered the comeback

"There is still the most difficult thing," warn those who not so long ago went through the trance of playing the League with Atlético on the last day.

Koke, who on Sunday was watching from a distance, exhausted, empty from the tremendous effort against Osasuna, how his teammates celebrated the catharsis in the form of a montonera, also knows the codes for this tricky countdown.

Yesterday morning, amid laughter, cheers and jokes, with the rush of the comeback in the body, the Atlético players jumped onto the Cerro del Espino grass as if on a cloud. Until Valladolid, they will only have three more training sessions left, the last of a strenuous course, marked by a 2020 summer without truce, a consequence of the pandemic. Today they will enjoy their only day of rest and, as Simeone already warned his squad before that happy ending in 2014, it is best to isolate yourself from the comments. From the strident noise that now multiplies through social networks.

Three days of training, surely in the morning, avoiding the heat that has already been pressing in the capital.

That was one of the reasons why referee

Martínez Munuera

, who is the one who decides these matters previously, not on the fly, interrupted Atlético's game against Osasuna with two hydration breaks.

The same as happened in Getafe.

The RFEF regulation does not include a minimum temperature to be able to do so.

This was stipulated last year, after the resumption of the League after confinement.

Little more can be added.

Without Savic, with the doubt of Lemar

So the normal thing is that the rojiblancos maintain their habits and around 11.00 hours they appear through the grass of

Majadahonda

to prop up the assault on Valladolid, where victory would assure them, without looking at Valdebebas, their eleventh League.

It is difficult for

Lemar

to arrive

, who left the Camp Nou badly injured, and it is certain that

Savic

will not be

on the New José Zorrilla. The Montenegrin, who has completed his best season since arriving in the summer of 2015, adding more minutes than ever in the championship (2,954), will probably be replaced by

Giménez

, who has been sitting in the stands for three games in a row, who is now the bench, perhaps with some discomfort. As you could see on Sunday, when he sped down the stairs of the Metropolitano to hug his friend Suarez, he has not lost the top of speed. On that magical afternoon at the Camp Nou in 2014, the Uruguayan, who was only 19 years old, was not even on the bench.

Atlético will travel to Valladolid on Friday afternoon, but little else is known about their journey.

Maybe by bus.

Maybe by plane.

It could even be by train ”, they say enigmatic from the club, where they do not even venture to give the name of the hotel where they will spend the night before the big game.

The cup will be delivered on Monday, in Madrid

There, along with Pisuerga, the entire Atlético squad will watch arms.

There, as he usually does on great occasions,

Simeone will

chat

with those chosen to conquer a venue that refuses to be Second.

The letters of the Argentine, except for the absence of Savic, will not vary with respect to the last games.

The Cholo message, either: "We're going to be strong headshot!"

There will be some hidden surprise in the luggage, given that more than real option to embrace the League.

But they are matters that are not mentioned.

What there will not be is a cup, because the delivery of the trophy, whoever the winner is, will take place on Monday 24, in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas.

Other precedents

Nine of his 10 titles, on the last day.

The first was from At.

Aviation, in 1940, hand in hand with Sevilla, and the last one, seven years ago (2014), with Godín's goal at the Camp Nou, which left Barça inglorious.

Only in 1977, with Luis Aragonés on the bench, did he take her away before that final day.

A League against Real Madrid.

It was in the 65/66 season.

The rojiblancos took it by a single point.

Despite the pressure, they beat Espanyol (then Spanish) in Barcelona (0-2) and Real Madrid's win at home against Mallorca (5-1) was useless.

Full rojiblanco on the horn.

The nine times that Atlético was the leader in the end, they ended up lifting the title.

Simeone did it as a player, in 95/96, fighting with Valencia de Aragonés, and he repeated it in 13/14, with Cholo as coach.

Just the opposite has happened to Madrid.

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