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It happened again in the cruelty of added time, but do not let fate fool anyone.
Because only the rage of
Joao Félix
had managed to rescue a very sad Atlético de Madrid before.
Sobrino
's goal in minute 98
condemned
Simeone
's men to a defeat that affects his doubts and gave Cádiz three points out of pure euphoria.
[3-2: Narration and statistics]
The good intentions after the European debacle were diluted by Atlético in the blink of an eye.
In the Nuevo Mirandilla the most apathetic version of him appeared and a rival with water up to his neck did not waste him, even if he had to resort to the miracle of the last second.
Without faith, without spark and, above all, without football until
Griezmann
, Joao Félix and the debutant
Pablo Barrios
appeared .
Simeone's team, a few days before playing in Porto to continue at least in the Europa League, had previously been the worst version of himself that he can remember.
And only in the final maelstrom, with a resounding double by Joao Félix, did he wake up and even caress a victory that would have been unusual.
Because, when
Álex Fernández
had already made the second for Cádiz in 1980 that smelled like a sentence,
Ledesma
had hardly had to appear.
Only in that desperation was there a sense of self-respect from an Atlético that did not yet know what it was like to lose away from home in the League.
Away from the Metropolitano was where his dreams of future growth had been drawn, but in Cádiz, against a rival so needy that he did not know what it was like to win at home, he ended up spoiling that hopeful path as well.
If Atlético came from the height of fatality in the outcome of the match against Leverkusen that left him definitively out of the Champions League, at 27 seconds he had already found himself with a goal, like a slab on top.
A ball behind
Molina
's back , a back pass from
Espino
and a shot released from the penalty spot by
Bongonda
.
Pum pam pum.
It was like hitting a Don Tancredo.
The rojiblancos were still lost in thought, licking their lips at their misfortune.
A terrible symptom.
Morata's injury
Because the entire first part was going to become the height of reluctance.
The changes in Simeone's eleven, giving Griezmann rest and returning to the defense of five, did not help.
Nor was
Morata
's injury after 10 minutes, when Atlético threatened to react.
But that impetus led by
Rodrigo de Paul
with more enthusiasm than success did not last long.
Cádiz did not fall apart because their rival was a bunch of mistakes, bad passes and controls, thickness and nerves under the Cadiz afternoon sun.
The yellows, who had also lost
Mbaye
due to injury , began to grow against a rival without confidence.
On the horizon they sensed the first win of the season at the Nuevo Mirandilla, the three points that would make them catch their breath from the relegation places.
Nephew, in the discount of the first part, was about to make it 2-0.
A notice.
On the way back, Atlético did not improve one iota.
He neither built football nor worried.
Only
Carrasco
tried something from the left and a cross from the Belgian was about to be used by
Correa
to equalize.
He saved Ledesma's mitten when Griezmann and Joao Félix were preparing for the change.
They, Carrasco and Correa, protagonists of the visiting little danger, were the ones sacrificed.
Everything seemed to end with
Álex Fernández
's goal .
And, then, as in a convoluted script, the indicated Joao Félix flew into a rage.
A Chilean average that hit
Hernández
to shorten.
And a shot of pure rage in 84 to tie.
With eight minutes of added time, the afternoon going downhill and Menino unleashed, it seemed that a red and white comeback was coming.
But the Portuguese's header licked the post and, in yet another mistake, Sobrino finished off a cross from
Alejo
to turn all of Cádiz upside down in another tragic discount for Atlético.
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