Atlético emerged as the leader of a day that seemed capital for the title. He visited a Camp Nou in which he has spent 15 years without winning aware that a defeat against Barcelona meant that the Blaugranas overtook him in the table. However, left good feelings, was superior in the game and in a great first half he prowled the goal with constant arrivals, without shrinking and pressing up. He did not win, but the draw between Real Madrid and Seville keeps the table as it was.
A new day in which Simeone's men could lose the lead, as it already happened in Barcelona-Granada, and finally ends up keeping the first place with two points of advantage over the whites, that with his goal in minute 94 causes Atlético to not be able to allow a draw as if it had happened in defeat. Now, the rojiblancos continue to depend on themselves and cling to the values of cholismo to try to be champion. The first, game by game. There is no use digging them or thinking beyond the Royal Society.
Simeone knows that the mental pressure on the edge of the title is a fundamental part in the remainder of the League, so he also works on that aspect trying to get his players to evade beyond winning the next game. Think about the path before the goal. And as Luis Aragonés said, “win, win and win”, three victories that would give the championship at the end of the course after so many days in the first place. For it, Atlético returns to the Wanda Metropolitano, where it is the best venue in the championship. The rojiblanco team has said goodbye to a marathon of three consecutive starts with a balance of a victory (against Elche), a draw at the Camp Nou and the defeat at San Mamés and wants to become strong in his fiefdom in two consecutive meetings, against Real Sociedad and Osasuna before closing the championship in Valladolid.
In the last two games he has been recovering good feelings closer to the start of the season, especially in the first two halves against Elche and Barcelona, although it worries that generating many scoring chances have corresponded to a single goal (from Llorente at Martínez Valero). For this, it is essential to recover Luis Suárez's goal, who has not found him since last March 21 against Alavés. Carrasco is very inspired by the final meters, Koke became strong again in the middle, Llorente does not stop stepping on the area, the three centrals were a wall with an Oblak behind that repels everything that happens and that sits in the Zamora and Correa continues to add for Simeone. Players like Kondogbia or Felipe have been hooked to the rhythm of the headlines and it is necessary for João Félix to be able to be the one from the beginning. But, one day less to go, Atlético remains at the top and comes out of a very complicated day strengthened. The team has faith and will give the skin for it; As Simeone said, if you believe and work, you can.