Like the “game by game”, Diego Simeone In 2021 another term was invented for the history of LaLiga, “the area Suarez“, which will remain in time when the title won by the Atlético de Madrid in 2020-21, culminating on May 22 in Valladolid with a goal and an exciting image on the lawn of the Uruguayan ‘9’, rebelled and vindicated against his dismissal from Barcelona as the differential man who, with 21 goals, crowned the team of Diego Simeone as the irrefutable champion.
“We entered the zone Suarez, It is an ideal moment for a footballer like him to find and be able to solve game situations that the team will need, because he is used to these games and because he has the hierarchy of being able to do so, “he said. Simeone on the eve of the penultimate game for the title, on May 15, to receive Osasuna in the stadium Wanda Metropolitano under the oppressive pressure of Real Madrid, second to two points, and within a streak of five games without scoring a goal from the Uruguayan attacker.
He did not suspect, perhaps, that that expression would transcend everything a day later, when the Athletic fell by 0-1, by the goal of Ante Budimir at minute 76, when the League he escaped irretrievably, when everything was against him, when the rojiblanco team had failed a lot of occasions with 0-0, many of them Luis Suarez, always so accurate and so frustrated with the goal then. It was incredible that he had not scored. It was unthinkable that the set of Diego Simeone lose that match at that time.
Luis Suarez resurfaced. First tied Renan Lodi, Back in the 81st minute, but it wasn’t enough. Atlético needed to win. And the ‘9’ rescued the League, as he had done so many times with his team throughout the League. In ’88, he received Yannick Carrasco in the area, he dribbled, crossed and found the champion’s scorer, perhaps with the most celebrated goal in recent history by the rojiblanca fans, even though no one was in the stadium. A tremendous moment that was worth a League.
He culminated it the following week, again with a comeback, again on the edge of the cliff for the entire first half, until Angel Correa tied with the ‘punterazo’ that is also an invariable part of that League and until Luis Suarez scored 1-2. “I did not discover anything with the area Suarez. I was lucky. Suarez he is a man, he is a scorer, a challenging guy, a guy who, given the departure of an extraordinary club like Barcelona, wants to continue to show that he is in force “, he said, already champion, Simeone.
“The team helped him and got involved in something that is how he lives in this club, he felt very comfortable, very well and that is why he ended up having a fantastic season, with a lot of footballers in a year for the club’s history”, then remarked the Argentine coach, whose team won the championship because it had an infinite scorer like Luis Suarez, hungry, with ambition and with many goals, 21 in the 32 games he played (30 starting and 13 complete), but it is not only the amount, but how many points they contributed to his team.
There is no better response to the offense suffered in the previous summer, which caused him so much pain, than his incontestable 2020-21 season. His 21 goals decisively meant 35 points for him Athletic, who was champion with 86. He gave him 40 percent of the units with which he dominated the tournament almost from start to finish, because he was not a leader from the first dates due to a simple matter of the postponed matches that he had pending until midterm. the bell.
ALMOST DID NOT STOP SCORING GOALS
He almost did not stop scoring goals. Since its shocking premiere in front of the Granada at Wanda Metropolitano, when, in just 20 minutes he gave a goal to Marcos Llorente placeholder image and scored another two (6-1). By order, also in Vigo (0-2), al Betis (2-0), al Cádiz (4-0) and at Elche twice (3-1). Or as a decisive scorer against him Getafe (1-0) and in Vitoria before him Alaves (1-2). As were his two targets in Eibar (1-2), when he supported with his goals the moment of most doubts for Atlético on the road to the title. Or the goal in the comeback against Valencia in the Wanda Metropolitano, that 2-1 that was key to the final 3-1. Or the ‘doublet’ in Cádiz (2-4) or at 2-2 with the Celtic at home. And the 1-1 against him Real Madrid.
Even more in 2-1 at Athletic Club, in the 1-0 at Alaves, in the unforgettable and apotheosis 2-1 to Osasuna of the penultimate appointment and in the last of the League, from 1-2 to Valladolid in the new Jose Zorrilla, that left the image of the League: lying on the grass, crying while talking to his family, already like a champion.
He is still “moved” when he remembers that image: “They lived with me the whole situation that I lived (when the Barcelona dispensed with it in the summer of 2020). Very complicated moments. I think they were there suffering. It was special for me to want to show that one was still worth. It was a way that, when they saw me when I was bad, in that moment when I was happy I wanted to share it with them. For me it was a comfort to see them happy and happy, because for me they are everything “.
2022 appears differently for the attacker, without a goal in the last six days, with only one goal in his last 12 official meetings with him. Athletic, with four consecutive defeats and 17 points behind the leader, with everything that his team needs and with everything that it means for his team, which yearns for its best scorer, to a ‘9’ for the history of the Athletic, to the leader of the champion of League 2020-21.
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