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The Cerro del Espino was not the stage at the express wish of Rayo Majadahonda and Atlético, rather than a cupbearer duel that threw salt on the open wounds, there was a training match.

With 18,000 spectators pushing in the Metropolitano, an eleven without risks, a pinch of luck and the ambition to go to the eighth of a competition that resists.

I didn't need more to mutate into a sweeping gale

Majadahonda took the path of surprise with the resignation to play in their stadium, no matter how much this is Atlético's second home and they know it inch by inch. At Wanda, the venue was the same as always, he dressed in rojiblanco and took advantage of his confidence to vent his accumulated anger, starting with the memory of old embarrassments against Cultural Leonesa and Cornellà and ending with doubts in the League that needs to be shaken off.

Simeone exorcised any bad omen with the eleven, who could well line up in the next game against Villarreal.

He even made use of Jan Oblak even though all eyes were on

's debut .

He could see both given the Slovenian being on the bench, because throughout the first half he was a spectator to whom

granted the privilege of being at the foot of the field.

Emotional sledgehammer

If one goalkeeper monopolized the talk of the previous one, the other,

, marked the beginning of the duel. Without the first minute having been completed, an involuntary stomp by

on the hand in the first athletic onslaught forced him to retreat through tears. An emotional blow that knocked out

's entire team .

Atlético settled in his area and sought on a succession of occasions to start putting the game in his pocket. To do so, he was even lucky that there was no VAR in this round of the competition, because then

's goal would not have gone up to the scoreboard due to offside.

's assistant did not see

that in

's pass , so intense in the pressure at the exit of the ball that he caused the error of central

, the Brazilian was ahead. It was another shovel in the spirit of Ray, who saw the game was not turning the color of prowess. At most, hold on so as not to succumb to excessive sobo.

That feeling grew even more when he lost another ball to the pressure of Cunha, who built with

and Carrasco a play that ended with an unstoppable shot from

.

If by then he no longer had a rival, on the edge of the break came Carrasco's band connection with an unfolded

who filtered the perfect pass for Luis Suárez to feed his voracity and grab the pass to the second round.

Griezmann injury

Despite the fact that nothing foreshadowed that the victory was no longer immovable, Simeone continued to demand in the band and leading the artillery field, even if he came from a few days apart from the happy coronavirus. In a first round, he sent

,

and

and

to train

, perhaps to add kilometers before Villarreal's next visit. A decision that, in the end, was risky and wrong.

He wanted to wake up Rayo Majadahonda while Atlético readjusted. He finally stepped on Wanda's other area and handed the first ball to Oblak on a free-kick. It was the 57th minute. With more lungs and talent like

, he at least tried to stretch. Atlético had put so much powder that it was almost impossible for them not to change the score again. In the first play in which Koke, Correa and Griezmann connected, the goal of the Frenchman fattened a marker that Joao Félix rounded in the race after a long pass from Lodi.

If there was something that could cloud the victory and the classification did not look like it happened in the visitors' area, the rojiblancos.

But it came.

A few minutes after Griezmann put his name among the scorers, he reached for his thigh and asked for the change.

The Frenchman's physical problem left the team with ten, which was not important, but it could be a setback both for the next game and for the Super Cup that Atlético will play in a week in Riyadh.

The party was not complete.

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