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A

Luis Suarez

has had counted occasionally. Perhaps

Godín

or perhaps

Giménez

, during a thousand concentrations with his selection. But until he lived through it, he didn't really know what it was. Angrily removing his shirt, finally reaching his 20th goal, after two months of blessed waiting, he let out a roar of liberation. He did it before his companions buried him under their bodies. "Everyone tells you because of the Atlético motto, I didn't think you could suffer so much," acknowledged the Uruguayan after scoring the most important goal in his still brief history in Madrid. Keeping alive a flame that has been extinguished for his friends and former teammates of Barcelona.

During two heart-stopping evenings, against Real Sociedad and Osasuna, the striker tried in every way.

They went to infinity auctions that at another time would have entered narrower corners twice.

«You have to get used to the fact that to win the League you have to suffer and we get through another game.

I do not think we deserved so much suffering, "acknowledged the protagonist whose blow unleashed a kind of Valencian fireworks in the vicinity of the Metropolitan.

"Sometimes the striker is easier to lower his head, but I never identified with that part," he continued beaming.

It had been three seasons that he had not reached 20 goals, a record that, incidentally, allows him to pocket an economic bonus, as contained in the contract he signed on arrival, last September, when no one guessed that something like this could happen.

"Suárez, an extraordinary rebellion"

"Who better than him to solve a game that was leaving us," acknowledged

Simeone

, the same one who had fried him with messages to convince him that Atlético was his best destination.

Even when Juventus

it seemed to have won their hand.

"He came with an extraordinary rebellion, he has been away from the goal, but he was always there," said the Argentine coach, satisfied, who went like a bullet to the locker room when the referee signaled the end of the evening.

«I knew it was a moment when it was not his turn to go out and with so much play close to their goal, something could appear and appeared.

A good play on the right, a good center and a good definition, “said Cholo, recalling

Carrasco's

ninth assist

in this league.

An invaluable gift from the Belgian, who has become another of the icons of this Atlético that is going to pursue its eleventh league title until that last day in Valladolid.

The memory of 1996

There was a key moment in that desperate situation, when it seemed that Real Madrid, after

Nacho's

goal

in San Mamés, was going to leave them with a span of noses again. Simeone grouped his players together during the hydration break and the chip activated. "We are going to be strong in the head! Strong in the head!" He bellowed to his players, especially

Savic

, whom he had to call the huddle and who was going around after his bite with

Budimir

. The Balkan, by the way, will not play in Valladolid when he sees the fifth yellow.

“I said that what we had to do was draw because it was going to lead us to win the game.

The goal soon appeared and then the definition of Suárez, as an important player.

I stay with the team, the word team is what can show everything we have been doing this season, “proclaimed the coach, clinging more than ever to that non-negotiable match by match.

The statistics tell us that Atlético has never lost a league leading to that last round (this was the case in 2014) and that Real Madrid has never won it.

The first is well known to Simeone, who reached glory as a rojiblanco player 25 years ago, in that magical 1996. Now an intense week is looming to prepare for the most important duel of the season.

"It must be prepared with the same enthusiasm with which I came to the team, in 2011. That the team is fierce, that it sustains the attack and that the fans continue to feel proud of what we have," he said from the Wanda lectern.

As if those 10 years had flown by.

You have your second crown just one step away.

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