A goal from Suárez leaves Atlético '' card '' as leader to end 2020

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Atlético de Madrid
He closed the sports shutter of this 2020, he did it with victory. A bit pyrrhic yes, but victory at the end of the day. Without fuss or tinsel, with a little more hassle than I would have preferred, but with effectiveness and almost functionally efficient. The team of Simeone he took another game, thanks to a strategy play, an old aroma of the 13/14 title. Which is not bad news. And he did it before a Getafe that returned to remain without marking Athletic. And there are already 18 games.

And the team of Bordalás, who grew up in the game before a certain indolence mattress, but who lacked bad milk in the final meters. What better way than to celebrate the 500 matches of Simeone leading the team than with his fetish marker? The mattress team has 11 victories in the last ten games, only interrupted by the defeat of the derby, and with a ‘January slope’ in which the games postponed against Seville and I raised (February 1), who can simply shoot the rojiblancos on the table.

He did it in the middle of a small year-end earthquake after the surreal sanction to Trippier and the surprising departure of Diego Costa. He Athletic He did not miss Lagarto's, the reality is that he has been playing without him practically since he returned. Too bad because his first stint at the club had some outstanding final episodes.

But the truth is that, seeing also cHow this last final act came about with the ugly event of Anoeta
, it was best for all parties to separate the paths. The data of this second stage are there and are without a doubt, beyond sentimental considerations that are had towards the player for that very particular personality of his, what was Diego Costa in sports, on his return. Each one will keep what weighs the most for him.

The point is that the Athletic He abstracted from all these problems and pulled off a final game of the year that leaves him as the leader in this horrendous end of 2020.

The mattress team began accumulating chances, especially from the left lane, with a Carrasco very incisive. A center that nodded Luis Suarez high, a shot from the front that Yanez stopped down, a point blank shot from Lemar who went to the post after combination with the Belgian …

He Getafe he defended himself but with a certain lack of conviction. It was seen that the Athletic it was going to hit sooner rather than later. And he did it the same way he opened the can against the Real society. A traced fault, in which Lemar and Carrasco they played the distraction to see who served, the French stepped on and the Belgian hung to the area from the front, slightly oblique. Suárez appeared at the penalty spot to turn his neck as only the '9' know how to do, to place the ball glued to the base of the post. It was only 20 minutes.

The game got into a valley area where the highlight was the yellow that he took Mateu to Savic in a strange move. A relationship, that of the Montenegrin and the Valencian referee is already a classic. It is one of those ‘love-hate’ connections that make people talk. The talk that both had when they went to rest testifies to this because the Balkan could not believe that he had taken a card for that, a ball in which he insisted with a defender, that even the play was already canceled and was in favor of the Athletic, and the one that the braid understood Stefan he had slapped his hand.

He Getafe It took half an hour to carbure, perhaps also due to the delegation of an Atlético that was seen sailing with the wind in favor. Thus, half an hour later the first play of Azulona danger arrived. A play by the band of Vrsaljko, which ended with a center, a touch of heel Bush and a loose ball that was left to break it Etxeita, but it caught him in his left leg and the ball went to the skies of Madrid. In any case, little baggage for those of Bordalás in a first half that did not give much more of itself.

SECOND PART

The second part began with that worrying trend for the rojiblancos, in which the Getafe occupied the opposite field, with some occasion as a shot of Bush what stopped Oblak. Or also another against that ended with a high shot from the blue striker.

Simeone detected that the right-back was being a problem on account of a Vrsaljko that he had not been a holder for more than ten months. Hence his first change, barely ten minutes in the second act, was to take out the Croatian to put Saul and relocate Llorente as a right back.

Later in the game and seeing that the trend did not change, that the Athletic did not have possession and that it was difficult for him to leave, C
holo got into Torreira and belt, for Lemar and Joao
Felix, discreet.

Little offensive presence in this second half for him Athletic. And the one that there was, which was blue, too innocent to think about the tie. The team of Simeone He had some concern, especially because of the tightness of the scoreboard and the ground gained from his rival, rather than because of the enormous danger of the occasions.

He did not have them all with him Cholo that for the final stretch took out Gimenez by Suarez. It was going to be one of those games where he had to hold onto the advantage as if his life depended on it. Final suffering, but in the end, with triumph.

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DATA SHEET

ATLÉTICO DE MADRID 1-0 GETAFE

Atlético de Madrid: Yáñez; Iglesias, Djené, Etxeita, Olivera; Timor (Patrick, 87 '), Maksimovic, Portillo, Cucurella; Jaime Mata (Enes Unal, 68 ') and Ángel.

Getafe: Oblak; Vrsaljko (Saúl, 56 '), Savic, Felipe, Hermoso; Koke, Llorente, Lemar (Torreira, 70 '), Carrasco; Joao Félix (Correa, 70 ') and Luis Suárez.

Goals: 1-0, Luis Suárez (Min. 20)

Referee: Mateu Lahoz (Valencian School). He admonished Lemar (Min.23), Savic (Min.25), Timor (Min.74), Etxeita (Min.82), Giménez (Min.83).

Incidents: No spectators due to Covid.