Griezmann knows how to perform miracles in half an hour: Atlético knocks Porto down in a crazy addition

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Dawn is dangerous because sometimes the sun, still pinkish, can dazzle.

Others simply gawk at its charm.

Those flashes come to be a kind of hypnotic spell.

And at the dawn of the Champions League, in a start that seemed destined for a similar ending to last year, Atlético found themselves with an unexpected script victory (2-1).

An outcome reserved for the addition.

What Beau's boot seemed to fix, he smudged again in his own hand.

Until Griezmann arrived, redeemer, and in that half hour (which ended up being 41 minutes) he escaped with honors from his prison to kiss the shield and win over, once again, that Metropolitan where he was once a legend.

It was the flashes of

that tried to illuminate the first steps of the route.

After a heartfelt tribute to Paulo Futre, present in the stands and already recovered from the scare, it was another Portuguese dressed in red and white who tried to imagine and speed up the game, intentionally caressing each ball that entered his radar.

The night suggested that something more would be necessary to break the solid slate that

maintains in Porto.

A rival that has lost the vigor of

and the venom of

.

Both were part of the team that kept the Metropolitan in suspense just a year ago.

Even so, the

, where

He commands and drives as if he were 20 years old (he is 39) they have not lost the fire that they usually carry inside.

That tactical duel between Simeone and his former teammate in Italy lit up a single shot on goal by Atlético in the entire first half.

It was from

.

, the blue and white goalkeeper, only had to hug him.

Because the locals, with the speed of

,

and Joao himself, approached the vicinity of the Portuguese area, but without showing the slightest sign of malice in front of the goal.

returned from the start to that starting 11 rojiblanco

, who continues to lack chemistry.

None of his decisions were the right ones.

That is why, among other things, Cholo left him in the locker room at halftime.

It was Atlético who took the helm, but also who got the biggest scare.

When the first act was dying,

entered the area as if nothing had happened and came to find the edge of Oblak's goal, recovered in time for the appointment.

Simeone's pulse quickened.

Taremi lacked lucidity and company, fortunately for a Metropolitan who flinched.

Oblak flashes

Simeone shook the board after the break to bring in Lemar and De Paul and give a little more coconut to the gears of the medullary.

The response was immediate, but to no avail.

Koke holed with class and celebrated a target that was useless, since De Paul, the seed of the play, had started offside.

Back to start and another hot flash: Oblak flew to ward off Eustaquio's grumpy shot.

And in those came the already famous 60th minute where

, as usual, entered the Metropolitan.

The pressure strategy against Barça does not understand competitions.

Everything is to avoid the payment of the famous 40 million.

The fact is that the Frenchman, with his silver hair, appeared just when Porto released another whiplash.

He did not suspect what fate had in store for him.

Oblak replied to

's shot .

Atlético, with the course still to straighten out, began to feel Porto's encouragement.

Again the scare well into the body.

Simeone responded to the audacity of the Portuguese team with two changes that the stands did not know how to digest.

to the bench

, who did not hit any shots all night.

And then

traced the path of his partner, accompanied by a thunderous whistle.

beautiful heads and tails

In this heavy digestion, the night was stopped for a handful of minutes due to

's injury , and Atlético faded away in that search for itself.

Looking at the light of a dawn that, as happened a year ago, threatened to leave something cold again.

But, without looking for it, the rojiblancos found the double yellow to

who reopened the door for them when it seemed to be blocked.

The striker simulated a fall in the area and ended up in the locker room.

It did not seem like any remedy for the ills of Atlético, who had a hard time approaching the rival goal.

Until

, determined to forge his legend with goals worth a life, cast down all fears already in the addition.

And with his hand in the area he untied them again.

But

was enough with half an hour (actually 41 minutes) to free the Metropolitan.

With his head, in the last breath of the game from the corner, he overflowed the illusion of an entire stadium.

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