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In April 2017, just five months before its coming-out, the Metropolitano was a bustle of workers with helmets and cranes.

There were still a thousand details to finish, but his accelerated countdown had begun.

The stadium opened on the scheduled day (September 16), yes, but in that first Champions League match, against Chelsea (September 27), with a defeat after a comeback (

opened the curtain) at a tragic discount, there were still a handful of fringes to tie up.

However, the important thing was.

Diego Pablo Simeone had changed the location of the local bench, his work office, to tighten the assistant referee of that band and, incidentally, direct with greater precision, as he has been doing for nearly five years, the decibels of the stadium.

Perhaps he would not have been bad, seeing what happens every game, a few more square meters for a technical area that is too small for him.

That locker room was also finished off from the first day with a design studied to the millimeter, where battles that seemed lost at halftime have been decanted.

In him there are no blind spots and no player can escape the gaze of his coach.

Those two places, the favorite corners of the stadium for

(sometimes the press room is too), will play a decisive role tonight, in search of the Metropolitan's first great European feat.

Liverpool or Juventus in Turin fell there, but they have never had the opportunity to close out a European tie.

"Every stadium needs a comeback to remember and this is a perfect occasion for ours," they repeated from the offices of the red and white entity.

In addition, the CAS has granted the rojiblanco team a precautionary measure regarding UEFA's decision to take 5,000 seats from them, as punishment for the Nazi flag and salute displayed by some rojiblanco fan in Manchester.

For this reason, the club remained on the phone throughout Tuesday and today received the news: the Metropolitano will be full at a party designed to bring down

's team .

There will be a mosaic of 55,000 cards before starting and there will not be a corner available for what could be the most important night of the Wanda.

A place that, a priori, with the coldness that usually accompanies numbers, statistics, right now does not seem the best to try your luck with any comeback.

Because Atlético has not won a European game at home since October 27, 2020, against Salzburg (3-2), during the group stage and with the stands silenced due to the pandemic.

Since that autumn afternoon, with a comeback made by

, two defeats and four draws, the last against Manchester United, City's closest rival, two months ago.

Since February 2020, the athletic fan has not celebrated a victory of his own live: against Liverpool.

None of the results harvested in these 18 months (six games), will serve to dislodge the leader of the Premier.

The memories of the Calderón (2014 and 16)

Because the Metropolitan is missing one of those nights that make any soccer temple immortal.

Many enthusiastically remember

's almighty Liverpool

(1-0), a year later.

Both stamps occurred during the first leg matches of the round of 16.

Tonight's will be the first quarterfinal match in the young history of the venue, since the coronavirus forced them to play in Lisbon and a single match against

, their last adventure in this round, in the express outcome of the Champions 19/20.

The large passages lead one to cast one's gaze back to the not-so-distant times of the

.

Above all, those two victories against Barcelona, ​​in 2014 and 2016, which served to reach the semifinals of the Champions League.

«People are very excited to find themselves in a Champions quarter-final and I smell it in the environment.

It had been a long time since I had that feeling like in 2014, against Barcelona, ​​when we were able to turn around and win at home.

Hopefully a night like this can be repeated, sighed yesterday

, the captain, author of that solitary goal that earned the pass to the semifinals.

Those duels against

are not forgotten , nor is the last night with Manzanares.

That of the victory (2-1) against Real Madrid, under the deluge, in the semi-final second leg, which did not work in football, but remained emotional forever.

And that's a bit of what's at stake tonight.

In the Champions League match number 19 of the Wanda Metropolitano.

It is, without a doubt, the night that every stadium needs to experience at some point.

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