Griezmann is enough to bring Atlético closer to the podium of the League

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Griezmann

is enough alone to drag

when the road gets steep.

He has been bearing the weight of being Simeone's differential player for a long time, but he could not get the goal photo as recognition.

Against

, his favorite victim, he did it.

He caught a horizontal pass from those who wore rojiblanco yesterday in three quarters of the field, drove with speed to place himself between Yeray and Vivian, both restricted by yellow cards, and crossed an unstoppable shot into the net.

With a stroke of the pen, he unblocked a game that they had dominated, but that they were having a hard time winning.

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The duel had to be stripped of the symbolic brotherhood with which it started and that put a lump in the Metropolitan's throat.

The old glories that shared the red and white jersey took to the pitch to embody everything that one day a hundred years ago united them.

Son of the Madrid club of the Bilbao native, the European fight faced them and Saturn did not devour his son.

There was flurry of football, with no one taking the reins, with an Atlético

wandering alone, waiting to find the magic of Griezmann or whoever should assist him.

Valverde gave him more to wrap himself up and wait for the moment to deal the blow.

He populated his midfield to weave a web to tangle in, with Sancet off the hook and entrusted himself to the speed of the

.

took care of them over and over again

, pending

and helping Hermoso so as not to lose sight of

.

His was the first chance when he headed in a cross from Nico woven from the corner with the help of

.

It was the first warning, as Atlético gave theirs when

complied with the ball that Griezmann served as a gift to the far post.

Everything continues to go through the boots of the Frenchman, the only one capable of accelerating the team.

The Basques understood that they had to suffer and they did.

even appeared

, warming up for the Cup, to cloud Carrasco in a one-on-one that Correa had put on a tray in his only notable intervention of the match.

From the scare, Athletic grew.

Sancet began to appear between the lines and the Williams to run the bands where

no longer dared to drop.

Iñaki, in a very quick transition, planted himself on the bottom line, close to the post, got rid of Giménez and looked for Dani García in the other while Nico entertained Reinildo.

Athletic's last and best chance in the first half went high for the midfielder.

More danger with Morata and Memphis

Willing to wake up, the locals jumped onto the field in the second, much better planted.

Again with Griezmann in command, who once again surprised the rojiblanca defense by relying on Llorente and letting Carrasco crash, once again, into the Basque goalkeeper.

They were giving life to a rival who, despite the fact that it was very difficult for him to stretch, could cost him any mistake.

Nico tried by cutting Mario Hermoso and crashing into

.

Simeone then looked at the bench and sent

,

and then

to the field .

He warned Valverde that it was going to be a siege and the man from Extremadura tried unsuccessfully to protect the team from him.

Impossible when there is a talent like Griezmann in front.

He appears in all the attack plays, imagining them, embodying them and giving them away but he hadn't been able to celebrate them for a long time.

Since the end of January the goal, the seventh in the League, was denied him.

He showed up just when they needed him most.

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