Atlético clings to the madness in the Metropolitan to heal its wounds

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Diego Pablo Simeone finished exhausted by that last sprint down the flank, as a beautiful epitaph for the tension experienced for 90 minutes in the abyss.

Tears welled up on his face because Atlético, which seemed dead for half a game, was resurrected by pure champion genetics.

The rebellion that his coach demanded of him, came in the addition, things of destiny, with a goal by Mario Hermoso, signaled by his gross mistakes in the two Valencia goals.

The rojiblancos took to the mountains, now with nothing to lose, and found what they had been looking for for weeks.

Those embers of greatness with which they circumvented a gloomy gorge.

It was the catharsis of the Metropolitan.

There was no trace of division in the stands. Everyone who attended did so confident that, after the shipwreck in the Super Cup and Copa del Rey, they would attend, as they did, when the team woke up. They did not suspect anything of the shocking script. Moreover, in just half an hour they thought they were in error. Largely because Atlético's rearguard is no longer a safe place. Around there, through that area that at one time was considered exclusion for anyone, Valencia entered as if it were actually taking a night walk on the cold grass of Madrid. As much as Simeone was unhinged in the band, the problems behind were gigantic, if that was possible after what was experienced in the last episodes.

Valencia did not need anything from the other world to find paradise. In fact, it was

who opened the doors of heaven wide for him, with another embarrassing slip. The defender did not know, nor did the stands, of course, the ecstasy that awaited him at sunset. He launched himself at

in a foreign field and ended up opening a highway where Atlético began to bleed to death. The Portuguese found

at the other end and he, with a whiplash, despite the efforts of

and

, despite

's desire to scare his fate, lowered a few degrees a temperature that was already quite icy in the Metropolitan.

Atlético barely bothered Doménech in that first act where they thought they were heading towards another abyss.

's ankles

were always gnawed by the studs of some Valencia player (Correia could well see the second yellow) and

still didn't get a decent ball.

That is one of the reasons why he has not scored in the league for two and a half months.

He needed almost an hour to calibrate the goalkeeper

.

The same time as your team.

Cunha lit the flame

But the epicenter of the rojiblancos' intrigues and efforts is located a few meters from Oblak. The same soldiers who made him almost immortal are now condescending and trembling. It is not easy to explain that series of catastrophic misfortunes that came together for the second blow of Valencia. The ball now crosses Simeone's rearguard as if there were no one there. And

, who was already primed in Mestalla with that double in the discount that uncovered the first embarrassments, turned the night of the premises into a kind of penance. In a pilgrimage towards a comeback that, for a long time, until Cunha hit it, seemed like nothing more than an unattainable act of faith.

It was a good moment to know if, as it has been aired, Atlético had stopped believing.

The response was forceful.

Simeone shook his tree as much as he could.

He already said after the KO in San Sebastián that he was not going to stay still.

And from the changes, with

in midfield, with

and

hanging around with

, hope arose.

He did it from set pieces, where Cunha lit a flame that seemed insufficient.

Doménech was a flan and Atlético pushed relentlessly until

and

What a redemption theirs was, they unleashed madness and restored calm to a team in need of peace after so much thrashing.

Sometimes madness, as happened in the Metropolitan, is the best remedy against fear.

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