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Five defeats in five games, those suffered by Getafe, are difficult to explain. Better not waste a lot of time doing it, because they hardly leave room for alibis or excuses.

Míchel

does not want them and that is the way he has said it. He is an icon of Spanish football around which everything is amplified. The problem is that this whole has never been parallel to the stage in which a name was made, dressed in white, but in squares where difficulties outweigh the benefits of abundance. Míchel, as empirical of football as he is studious, has had to adapt to different situations, but he will always be haunted by the contradiction of thinking big in small places, either on his part or on the part of those who judge him. It is his fate.

It is not the first time that he has directed

Getafe

, which in his previous stage he saved from relegation after an emergency incorporation. The following year he left him sixth, in UEFA, the best classification until

José Bordalás

arrived

, his nemesis by genesis and game, and flirted with relegation in a third irregular exercise. Now, on the other hand, it is different, threatened at the start by implacable results.

The injuries of key players (

Vitolo

,

Arambarri

,

Sandro

or

Jankto

), added to the departure of

Cucurella

, and a start against Valencia, Barcelona and Seville made up an evil combination.

Getafe did not know how to take advantage of

Guillamón's

early expulsion from the

Mestalla and, despite leaving a good image in the first three days, with losses by the minimum, he reached the national stoppage blank.

Nothing that did not respond to the situation, but anxiety then made its appearance.

The defeats against Elche and, especially, against

Rayo

, for a landslide after sending a ball to the post and suffering an absurd penalty, are proof of the anguish in which the team lives.

THE DECISION OF ÁNGEL TORRES

Míchel, 58 years old dedicated mostly to elite football, experience implemented with psychological work, says he controls it. Another thing is its players and its president.

Ángel Torres

is a temperate guy, who analyzes the circumstances before making decisions. In the tail of the League there are five teams in three points. Enough margin to get out of the situation, but whenever a change in trend is appreciated.

The visit, today (7:30 p.m.), of Atlético, the current champion, is not the most appropriate to turn it into an ultimatum. But any clash serves to check if the symbiosis between footballers and coach is adequate, if the message and energy arrive from the bench, as they did in the preseason, with six wins and a draw for Getafe in seven games. Almost a plenary session that, once the League started, has been repeated in the negative.

The coach knows well the profile of his president, but the current stage is not like the previous one, in which Torres took risks with illustrious former footballers who started on the benches (

Quique Sánchez Flores, Laudrup, Schuster

or Míchel himself), a strategy as football as media.

After those happy years came a decline and the return of the hand of someone who had nothing to do with it: Bordalás.

Míchel has faced Atlético 10 times as a coach, with five defeats, two draws and three victories, one of them in the Champions League with Olympiakos.

In Athens and Getafe he lived, in fact, two of his best stages on the benches, against Malaga, whom he saved to be dismissed the following year, or a Seville between the wars.

The Stations of the Cross, this time, goes through the Coliseum.

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