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Atlético is mired in a state of deep depression, which does not relieve even the circumstantial return of the old shield. Because this Cup of a sip, of a poisonous drink, far from becoming a relief, ended up being another blow to his heart. The sorrows that found no consolation in the Saudi Arabian Super Cup, worsened on a tragic night in Anoeta. There, the Royal Society smelled the blood and ended up devouring a piece that still does not recognize itself when looking in the mirror. The Cup, like the League and the Super Cup, is history for a team, Simeone's, which has been a specter of what it was months ago for weeks. Felipe's blush in the second realistic blow is the blush of a team that had forgotten what it is to walk in irrelevance.
Real Sociedad, suspicious despite the penalties that Atlético was dragging, rushed in search of their rival's neck. At the neck of a team, the rojiblanco, yesterday in red, unrecognizable in the excellence that has brought him in these years to the pulpit where he finds himself. By high he was banished from Arabia against Athletic and by high he would be portrayed again. Without
Giménez
, sanctioned, nor
Savic
, finalizing his recovery, Felipe and Hermoso tried to reduce the realistic avalanche at the dawn of heads or tails in Anoeta. The cross would be heavier for Simeone than for the locals.
In the first breath of the night, Atlético, timid and vulnerable at the back, ran into Real, landing in their area. It was the eve of the big day in San Sebastian and the crowd pushed his team over Jan
Oblak
. Elustondo first scared and then kissed the Januzaj stick, in a preview of what would happen minutes later. An overwhelming start from San Sebastian that the rojiblancos were patiently reducing. Herrera, De Paul and Koke, an unprecedented trio in the engine room, were at the helm of a team entrusted at that time to the hypothetical geniuses of Carrasco and Joao Félix.
And the Belgian could be the solution to the evils. He got tired of cutting and cutting in the Yannick area, electric as usual, but ended up crashing his idea into Remiro's post, who by then was lying with his knees nailed to the grass. De Paul had thrown him into a battle he couldn't win. Had he done so, perhaps the life of Atlético would have changed. Who knows. They are only chimeras and speculations. The fact is that
Januzaj
flew between the Madrid defense, which has ceased to instill respect, to bring out the colors once again.
Mikel Merino
danced
, caressed
Silva
and focused
Zaldua sharply
.
With that it was enough for the other Belgian, the one from Real, to undress the centrals.
The lateral centers are one of the many ills that have Simeone's men in a catatonic state, with encrypted responses.
Philip's blush
It is the only possible reading to understand what happened as soon as you took a break in the locker room.
Felipe
, that central player who seemed destined to make
Godín
forget , ended up falling into
Oyarzabal
's ambush , turning a ball without danger into a highway towards the abyss.
The Norwegian giant
Sorloth
, fang sharp, ran at Oblak and drew his hammer to dig into a wound that had been infected for a few weeks.
Atlético barely showed signs of greatness. If anything after the entry of
Lemar
,
Suárez
and
Cunha
, the solution that did not serve to rescue a team orphaned self-esteem. After the warnings from Real, which could lead to a more caliber ruin for Simeone's men, at least in terms of the result, Cunha's heads-up came that ended up disrupting Remiro.
Carlos Martín
and
Serrano
, two youths from the subsidiary, were the last bullets.
The Cup continues to be a cursed place since that distant conquest in 2013, on the lawn of the Bernabéu.
But the current issue requires deep reflection, beyond a simple time on a couch.
It is not simply a matter of having been eliminated in another competition, but of a state of mind that does not subside.
Atlético has been sailing in a deep depression for a long time.
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