Milan leaves Atlético looking into the abyss

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Suddenly, Atlético looked in the mirror and found themselves face to face with the abyss. With that real feeling of being able to fall into the void before time. Junior's header, when a point seemed like a good solution. Milan, superior for much of the night, was pierced in the red-and-white throat, like a thorn that could end up being fatal for the future of Simeone's men in Europe. Now a final awaits him in Porto, where victory is the only possible way out of a bizarre labyrinth that no one counted on at the start of the season.

Atlético dawned almost as cold as night. It took him his job to start, even though his life was at stake. Among other things, everything must be said, because Milan squeezed his throat at every attempt to get the ball out. Giroud started, leaving Ibrahimovic on the bench, and was seconded by the rest of his teammates, with midfielders

and

conducting the orchestra. The ball passed through the rojiblancas boots almost on tiptoe. And when he did, the

they found a way to force error. The Italians showed the same force with which they cowed Simeone's men at San Siro for half an hour. Only, pushed by their people, the locals scrambled in search of a goal, that of the Romanian Tatarusanu, which seemed more distant than normal. Each ball was an adventure that, for a long time, had a Lombard color.

It is true that Oblak did not struggle, but also that the tension was felt in each Milan approach, with

waving his baton.

and

tried unsuccessfully to drop anchor and get sanity. It was complicated because in front there was a rival hanging by a thread. A thread that passed to conquer the Metropolitan. Simeone burned on the band with every loss. With each fleeting possession, always condemned by the hard leg of some adversary. Beyond a couple of lashes from Marcos Llorente, throwing his tusk at the back of the rear, the red-and-white fans barely had anything to throw into their mouths, who let off steam every time

Hernández, a former quarry, was grabbing a ball.

Suárez was like an island and Griezmann failed to finish off any of those incursions by

.

It was a vital cut from

, back after his four games of suspension, which managed to raise the temperature a couple of degrees, which was needed.

But Atlético went to the locker room with a handful of questions.

At Anfield, the scoreboard was unfazed.

And it must be that Simeone should have given them the answer to some of those questions because Atlético returned with another gesture in his eyes.

In just five minutes,

and Griezmann had already raised more dust than in the entire first act.

From the French it was the first shot on goal from Atletico.

and his reflective suit replicated the attempt.

But Milan did not take long to lower the fumes.

Barely any certainty appeared for the athletic destiny, which sailed between the uncertainty of the scoreboard and the shadow of a rival of severe bearing.

Junior's claw

Simeone tried to shake up the night with the entrance of

and, above all, of

, who must have had some unfinished business with Theo, perhaps from some training in another era, given the entrance he gave him shortly after entering. The Metropolitan's heart sank when Savic, from the ground, repelled a shot from Bakayoko, in a counter from

, ridden by Ibrahimovic, which looked fatal.

Without

, who lived tormented on the run and barely left a distant shot, and without

, perhaps overwhelmed by having to go from here to there, Atlético faced the last attempt to assault Milan's goal that, despite the spasms at the beginning of the second act, it seemed as distant as it had been throughout the meeting. At least, Liverpool had already imposed its law on Porto and that softened any unforeseen events in the Metropolitan. Because nothing else was going through Simeone's head other than getting out unscathed. One point was more precious than gold.

case, Jan

worked a miracle against Ibrahimovic, which the line would cancel for offside.

But he could do nothing with

header

, which condemns Atlético to an extreme end in Porto, within a couple of weeks.

Maybe still in shock.

There, nothing else will be worth it other than winning in Portugal.

Given the rojiblancas doubts in Europe, the matter does not seem easy at all.

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