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From the puntín in Pucela to the two zapatazos in Balaídos. Three months later, Atlético, in its coming-out with the crown, is still clinging to the same mischief. In this case, paradoxically, to those of an Angel, Correa, who has a healthy habit of showing his bangs when his throat is drier. Under the harsh sun of Vigo, before the gaze of 7,000 spectators, the Argentine striker, the only rojiblanco striker who started from the beginning, illuminated the dawn of his team in this League. While Luis Suárez sharpens his lungs and legs, while Atlético waits for a '9' to be shot in the market, Correa continues to write a story dotted with goals, with great goals. With the first he started the car, with the second he could leave it parked in the garage because Aspas, to a general surprise, was scared by his shadow when he saw the tie.In the absence of gunmen, his rifle remains one of the most reliable weapons for a team that continues to move reliably.
Although, it must be said, Correa, who has 48 goals and 47 assists as rojiblanco, broke it for the first time because
Lemar
has not forgotten the lesson that he recited so many times with elegance last season, when it seemed that the history of the Frenchman would lead to a precipice.
Without (hardly) defensive ties, with the confidence that comes from hearing
Kondogbia's
breath
behind you, Thomas crossed the Balaídos meadow as if he were on horseback through the Wild West.
He found the accurate Correa and found another partner, but the Argentine's aim and impudence resumed the champion's march.
Sitting on the bench,
Rodrigo De Paul
he did not lose detail of everything that happened on the grass, sighing for the ball, as it would happen later, to pass through his boots.
In front of Atlético there was a team, Celta, that maintains that warrior spirit that Chacho
Coudet instilled in
it less than a year ago. Coudet, sanctioned, was not at the foot of the lawn, but his boys, as Aspas at the head, interpreted the script with care. During the initial quarter of an hour, they squeezed the rojiblancos trying to short-circuit their game. And
Renato Tapia
, that Peruvian 'stopper' who gives meaning to many aspects of Celta's game and bitter those who approach him,
was very much to blame
for that. However, except for an innocent shot by
Iago Aspas
, which
Oblak
cradled comfortably, the Vigo barely altered the champion's pulse.
The celestial captain, in addition, would avoid under sticks what would have been half sentence of the afternoon after a header from
Hermoso
.
Marcos Llorente and
Saúl
rode as rojiblancos lanes
, to whom, having declared the intentions of both, few were waiting for him at the start of the course.
And few, he the first, were waiting for him on the left side, where not only did he not clash but ended up putting Correa in luck to execute his double.
It was the calm after the previous shock.
Aspas's forgiveness
Because when it seemed that the issue of the hands in the area had been resolved, with the regulations of last Thursday of the Technical Referees Committee, Llorente's arm reopened the debate.
What seemed like an involuntary hand, after touching the ball to the chest, ended up being a penalty after
Munuera Montero
consulted the screen
, whose decisions had been turning on the rojiblancos.
There is no one to decipher what the hands in the area.
Neither the players nor the referees nor the fans nor the chroniclers.
Iago Aspas raised dust by mocking Oblak at the launch, but Correa would end up defusing the controversy.
Atlético players argue with Munuera Montero.Lavandeira jrEFE
De Paul had his moment (25 minutes), in which Atlético missed the ball, and
Luis Suárez
reappeared
, the same one who had lowered the blind in Zorrilla with his poison.
All of them, including
Oblak
, who became the goalkeeper with the most matches in Atlético's history (304), rubbed their eyes when they saw Aspas throw a draw into the well that would have turned that controversial penalty into a capital issue.
The afternoon, intense, led to a brawl, with several expelled (Mallo, Hermoso and Profe Ortega) and a duel of almost 100 minutes.
But Atlético was worth the flapping of its angel, Correa.
With it he put out any fire.
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