A title based on comebacks

Atlético never gives up. Eight days ago, the rojiblanco team lifted their eleventh league title in a great celebration at the Wanda Metropolitano and the feeling of suffering was fading in favor of euphoria and happiness. The last two days, with the title at stake and nerves on the surface, Simeone saw how Osasuna and Valladolid got ahead and the rojiblanco team had to scramble so that the coveted trophy would not escape.

Against the Navarrese, in a dramatic way, after spending the whole game generating chances and football in the final meters without the award against Sergio Herrera and seeing how Budimir put his team ahead in the 74th minute practically in the first auction against. But Atlético got its character and He turned the scoreboard with a six-minute heart attack with Lodi drawing 81 ’after a great assist from João Félix and Luis Suárez unleashing madness with a cross shot in the area from a great action by Carrasco in the band. The Uruguayan had been frustrated in the first half, but did not give up and ended up hitting the key moment (minute 87).

And on the last day, the mattress team was overwhelmed from the start by nerves and the tension of being the champion in the case of winning and Valladolid took the lead in a match where Óscar Plano defined perfectly planting himself in hand-to-hand after leaving his own field. All this in a play started in a corner in favor of Atlético. The team calmed down at half-time and He turned the score around quickly with an illuminated Correa, author of a real goal and Suárez finishing off an error by Guardiola and showing himself again reliable in the one against one in his goal number 21 that LaLiga certified. A comeback between minute 56 and 66 that ended up being decisive, since Real Madrid also came to win their game.

Atlético has had to be epic on several occasions this season and has shown its character and ability to react with Luis Suárez as the main protagonist. During the first 14 days of the League, he was never seen with the scoreboard against, which kept the uncertainty about the answer that he would be able to give in a scenario against. But, with the Uruguayan fundamental protagonist in 21 points, not only certified the comebacks against Osasuna and Valladolid, it always gave the impression of being able to overcome any obstacle.

In the first round, Suárez had already scored the winning goal against Alavés in the 89th minute and turned around in the next outing to the match against Eibar with a double, the second from a Panenka-style penalty in 89 ', after Dmitrovic had made it 1-0 for the gunsmiths also from eleven meters. During that period of the course, Atlético began to string together setbacks that they gradually carried out. A week after Ipurua it would be Valencia who would go ahead through Rakic, but João Félix, Suárez and Correa ended up putting the 3-1 on the scoreboard.

Against Celta, a double for the Uruguayan would go from 0-1 by Mina to 2-1, but Ferreyra would tie in the last minute. And against Athletic, in the Wanda Metropolitano, Muniain complicated Atlético's options in the League with his initial goal, but Between Marcos Llorente and Suárez from penalties they got the three points to stay at home. On the opposite side of the scale, the rojiblanco team did not lose any game after starting winning (only Real Madrid and Betis scratched a draw).

If in previous years Atlético had always been reliable in the rear once it managed to unbalance the game, this season it has added the character and capacity that Suárez symbolizes so well to recover from adverse blows, with five wins after starting losing and the two final triumphs that made it clear that Simeone's men only had the title between eyebrows and nothing and nobody was going to divert them from their objective.