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Names are not enough to score goals. Atlético knows it well. If that were enough, he would already be one of the best in Europe at that luck. But against Athletic, the safest team in the League (only one conceded goal), as happened just three days before with Porto, he again left his Metropolitano people wanting to celebrate a goal. Without celebrating a victory for the third consecutive duel. The public was turned on by the double yellow to Joao Félix, after a verbal rudeness, again with Gil Manzano as judge. Still, Simeone's were saved from having left with some more serious injury. Iñaki Williams and Villalibre had their sight blurred a few meters from Oblak. Names brighten the eye, but they don't always bring happiness.
As this year Atlético has plenty of offensive variables, Simeone opted for another newly minted company to try to open the meat of a black Athletic.
Griezmann
appeared with the scythe in hand next to
Correa
, trying to turn the page of a European night where the rojiblancos hardly put Porto in trouble. Antoine and Ángel have known each other for a few years. But that does not have to be a guarantee of anything. And it wasn't. Some of the sharpest arguments of the locals emerged from the Argentine's boots and gestures. Sometimes there were no breaks, other times there were no reflexes. Correa, after an affectionate hug in the spinal cord with Raúl García, pulled ballroom dancing to leave some of the best details. He missed the detonation in the first act.
Griezmann debuted as a headline in a Metropolitan that softened his nails and lowered the decibels when the Frenchman's name was announced over the public address system.
The goals and his effort on the green will end up doing the rest.
And against Athletic, his favorite victim, for whom he had scored 12 goals in 26 games, the Frenchman continued his reconciliation.
The drawing still needs to be docked.
Although only two years have passed since he gave the scare, this Atlético has another way of being.
Antoine was seen in the area, but could not hit a shot against
Unai Simón
, who went to rest with spotless gloves.
Antoine sought to be useful from the center of the field, but he is still far from that lethal version that he wore so many times in his early days.
In life as in football, time heals everything.
The Trippier-Llorente company
During the first act, Atlético's best offensive solution came from the now classic connection on the right flank between
Trippier
and
Llorente
.
The Spanish midfielder, freed from his chains, entered Balenziaga's back again and again, as if he were really doing it on a paraglider.
But Luis Suárez, the owner of the tusk, was waiting his turn on the bench.
He also left details
of Paul
, capable of putting a ball in a hole that the stands have not yet seen.
On the left side, Lodi, who gave Carrasco refreshment, generated more concern among his team than in the rival.
With the entry of the Belgian, things would be very different.
Although the years go by, for
Raúl García
the effort has never been negotiated. That is why he walked in all battles. And not exactly small. Well in front of Savic, now fourth rojiblanco captain, well face to face with
Kondogbia
. The fear slips out of him. Athletic hardly struggled in that first act where
Muniain
brought out the colors of Simeone's, leaving only
Íñigo Martínez
. There
Giménez
appeared
, who commanded the rear unceremoniously, to quell the possible fire. That Athletic is the safest team in the championship is not by chance. The roads to Unai Simón were full of electrified potholes.
The dawn of the second act discovered a waterway that
Iñaki Williams
crossed excessively when Marcelino was preparing the celebratory jump from the band.
After the start, Simeone reached for another load of explosives.
Joao Félix
and
Luis Suárez
know well the guts of the gear and, on paper, also the way to the goal.
Griezmann went to the bench without any morbidity.
By that time, Atlético had recovered their nails on the left wing.
Carrasco, unlike Lodi, not only does not burn the ball but is clear about what to do with it.
The Belgian is right now a relief for his team's game.
The double yellow to Joao
A distant whip from Llorente at the post, with Herrera wisely moving the strings, seemed to be the prelude to some solution at Atlético. But it turned out to be a problem. In a sigh,
Joao Félix
ended up in the street for a double yellow. The Portuguese elbowed out and said
something
to
Gil Manzano
that he didn't like. Apparently: "You are crazy!". The referee already expelled
Diego Costa
at the Camp Nou for a verbal excess, so he added another chapter in his thorny love relationship with the Madrid club. He left the Metropolitan in a huff.
In that last round, Athletic could have opened a wound with its claws, but for
Villalibre
, as had happened to his teammate Iñaki Williams, the goal was too small for him.
That saved Atlético, whose goals, despite the names he manages, do not fall out of his pockets.
On the contrary.
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