Another derby with honey on the lips and another controversial derby for Atlético: "Nothing new at the Bernabéu"

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"This referee is not very friendly. You do him like that and on the street."

warned him

in advance of another derby marked by controversy, the third of the season, all of them, in which Atlético ended with one less player.

was already

trigger-happy in a white glove game where there were almost as many cards as fouls.

As hell bent on getting tangled up.

But when

collapsed in midfield midway through the second half, he didn't even hesitate.

Neither he nor he consulted the VAR.

"So the street".

's elbow

at the height of the German's stomach was as stupid and obvious as the red card that sentenced him was rigorous.

"The contact was not so violent for one of 1.94 to fall",

There had not been a tangana up to that moment, nor a brush with

.

Sportsmanship with a

who had him more or less controlled and even with

.

But the rigorous expulsion unleashed the red and white despair.

The shoving and the hands to the head of Cholo, which he applauded sarcastically.

There were more than 15 minutes left and his team had resisted without much fanfare at the Bernabéu.

At that moment, just after

had injected his team with the energy of a triple change, everything went black for Atlético.

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's goal

from set pieces, an impeccable header.

And the barrage of Real Madrid, who soon tied with an almost identical goal from

, while Atlético reduced with 10, trying to avoid another fatality, another comeback in a derby, still recent in memory the one from a few weeks ago in Cup. And he did it, to at least alleviate his bad streak at the Bernabéu, also to leave the eternal rival with the League even more complicated.

Bad memories

But as soon as the duel ended, the rojiblancos' thoughts turned to Gil Manzano.

A referee who already brought back bad memories.

Nor was the cupbearer derby forgotten, the possible expulsion of

that was not, the

statement .

"Nothing new at the Bernabéu," the club's official account tweeted.

"I was far away. I don't see it well. They told me that it could have been reviewed, that they were not so red," summarized a Giménez who highlighted on DAZN the reunion of his team with the goal from set pieces.

"It is a point that must be given merit. The still ball was always a strong weapon for us. In recent times we have lost effectiveness," summed up the Uruguayan, who had entered the first half due to Reinildo's ugly

: after the severity was confirmed, cruciate ligament rupture.

The appreciations go by sides.

To

, however, the red one did not seem so rigorous to Correa.

"With the expulsion we forgot to play. Against 10 you can't give away free kicks. [The one that led to Atlético's goal] It was very light, but he whistled it", admitted the Belgian goalkeeper: "The truth is that he makes a gesture. But they can't complain about the little foul they've whistled for."

"He has seemed fair to me the expulsion", settled Ancelotti.

This time fate wanted it to be in the derby -five years later, he left without losing in the League-, that has marked so many joys in these 11 years but also his cruelest efforts in the lost Champions League finals, where Cholo went through several frontiers of history.

Of Atlético and of the League itself.

He equaled the legend

as the coach with the most games for the club (612) and surpassed a record set by

, precisely with Madrid, which had been in force for almost half a century: no one has directed more games for the same club in the First Division than Simeone (425).

And to try to change the bad streak at the Bernabéu, to equalize his balance with Ancelotti in the 17th derby between them, the Argentine tried to do something new tactically from the start.

He planted a team full of midfielders - three of them, homegrown players,

-, with Griezmann as the only leading lighthouse.

That allowed him to mutate.

appeared

at the beginning accompanying the Frenchman, but when Vinicius required more attention, he delayed him so that Carrasco could take a step forward.

It didn't help him much offensively, but at least he managed to contain Real Madrid's electricity in the first half.

The second was another Atlético, another game and another controversy.

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