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  • Recognition The legend without a plaque of Luis Suárez (and many others) at Atlético: "The 100 games was the most reasonable method, but not the fairest"

There will be mystery until the end to find out who will be the team graced with the seven million euros.

With that good pinch that the third overall receives.

For a long time it seemed that this honor would correspond to Atlético, whose stands fired Luis Suárez at the height of what his figure has meant.

Accompanied by his three children, he said goodbye to his stadium.

It seemed that

Giménez

's header would solve the matter.

But Sevilla found its prize, that of a Champions League place for next year, in the redemption of En-Nesiry, who needed three to start that final tie.

The rojiblancos will play for the third place in San Sebastián, against a Real team that can gain little and has nothing to lose.

Atlético appeared in body, head and soul liberated for the last game of the season at the Metropolitano.

With that last peak still to be conquered, which was third place.

A ribbon that hid seven million euros.

For this reason, the rojiblancos, with the Champions League secured since Wednesday, casually launched in search of Sevilla.

A special afternoon in that corner of Madrid, for it was the last time for

Luis Suárez

on the pitch of that stadium that he was not able to enjoy live last season, when he traced that legend with goals that is already indelible.

Nor will there be more trots of

Héctor Herrera

.

Probably, when the next season starts, in just three months, some more will be missing.

Atlético showed up intensely, forgetting that vice of giving away minutes, which has conditioned him so many times this dying season.

He pressed the ball out of Sevilla and took out the fang without complexes.

In one of those,

De Paul , the protagonist in Elche, scratched a ball on the band and, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that his friend

Luis Suárez

was walking near him

.

The Uruguayan, who has goals in his blood, no matter how many years weigh (35), only saw the goal.

His overly-crossed throw was followed by

Bono

's gaze.

A couple of meters away, Carrasco was being carried away by demons, thinking what he could have done with that ball, had he been detected by the Uruguayan.

Giménez's hammer blow

Probably, a story as intense as that of

Reinildo

has not been seen in the Metropolitan .

He has been in Madrid for a little over three months, but, due to his supernatural adaptation, it seems that he had been three decades.

They suggest in the stands that it is enough for him to breathe on his rivals, as if he really were the fire of a dragon.

The African did not overlook the Sevilla players, who, one by one, ended up falling into his jaws.

From his head, moreover, the first goal of the match could have sprung.

He missed a foot.

Reini, as they call him in the stands, is on his way to becoming a totem.

The Andalusian team seemed to wake up, as sleepy as in its irregular closure of the course.

And from En-Nesiry's boots and gallop, he may well have done it.

The striker appeared before Oblak, but ended up crossing excessively without explanation.

Lopetegui squirmed on the wing for the missed opportunity.

And he would do it even more when, moments before the hydration break,

Giménez

's head hit the ball with a hammer, while the Sevilla defense wondered what had happened.

The charrúa finished off a corner kick from Carrasco and Bono could only certify the damage from the blow.

Logically, Sevilla quickly changed their arguments, because third place, which seemed like a fact back in February, was slipping through their hands.

She made use of Navas and Corona and, minutes later, of

Óliver Torres

and Rafa Mir.

A forceful touch of the blackboard to try to turn around an afternoon that Atlético managed without trouble.

Because they didn't demand any miracle from Oblak either.

The redemption of En-Nesiry

The afternoon at the Metropolitano could have been round, but Luis Suárez missed his iron shot by a foot and no matter how hard they looked for him, especially his friend De Paul, he failed to put his signature on his last episode at home.

At least not with goals.

After an hour, after excitedly thanking a banner that legends win ('Thank you Lucho for making us champions'), he went to the bench with his hair standing on end and with an intense hug from Simeone as a finishing touch.

The tears of that other Luis, of Suárez, are also part of his brief but intense story.

Bono, the goalkeeper destined to succeed Oblak at Zamora, scared away a malicious shoe from

De Paul

and sighed with relief when he saw how the ball, hit by

Savic

, ended up avoiding his unguarded goal.

En-Nesiry

would run into Oblak's crossbar

, when the Sevilla bench thought they saw the tie.

His lack of aim seemed to be a condemnation for his people.

But in the third, after a superb header coming from behind, he found the solution against the rival goal.

Something that ensures the Champions League for next season.

Hence the manteo to

Lopetegui

, despite the fuss of the local fans.

The high tension duel ended in a draw and without resolving the owner of that third step of the podium.

For that, we will have to wait another week.

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