The League has been very long for Atlético, who completed an almost perfect first round, then came the turbulence and finally a stretch of agony in each game, whether he played badly or well. That first win against Granada sounds very far, even the great winning streaks in the autumn. Various players have emerged as heroes at different times of the season, that of the Eleventh.
Atlético started the League on a roll. It debuted on matchday 3 with a 6-1 win against Granada and the illusion soared. Diego Costa scored the first rojiblanco goal of the season, the team was exhibited in attack and the end was a party. In the 70th minute, Llorente entered the field, which still did not have the undisputed label, and Luis Suárez, who had arrived at the club a few days before and was making his debut. Within a minute, the Uruguayan gave an assist to the 14, who returned it shortly after. The gunman had time to complete his double. A great round game.
November 21, Athletic-Barça. The rojiblancos submitted their candidacy for the title at the same time that they broke a very bad streak, since Simeone had never been able to beat the Catalans in the league. Until that night, where a goal from Carrasco, taking advantage of a bad start by Ter Stegen, gave Atleti the victory. The Barça was to nine points. That day, Cholo surprised with a 1-5-3-2 scheme, with Carrasco as the lane and João and Correa at the top, as Suárez could not play against his ex due to coronavirus.
The game before Christmas Eve was another level test for Atlético. The visit to Real Sociedad, one of the strongest teams in the league start. And the rojiblancos gave a coup of authority to consolidate their leadership. Beautiful, upside down after a foul by Carrasco, and Llorente, with a left foot from the front, they scored the winning goals in San Sebastián.
Atlético was so well used that only in Valdebebas, his only defeat until then, had been seen behind on the scoreboard. And in Eibar he had an exam that was complicated from the beginning. A penalty after ten minutes that Dmitrovic transformed forced the challenge of the comeback and there Luis Suárez appeared. The Uruguayan tied before the break and, almost at the end, caused a penalty that he himself transformed Panenka style. The leader, of course, also showed that he knows how to suffer and overcome.
Atlético visited Cadiz at the end of January and returned with three points (2-4) that put him no longer outstanding leader, but at the height of the best in history. The rojiblancos closed the first half of the League with 50 points out of 57. Behind, to ten and having played one more game, Real Madrid and Barça. Few resisted predicting that the League was already sentenced, even if the rojiblanco team was not able to maintain a rhythm that aimed at 100 points.
Levante turned the League upside down in a week. The coincidences of the calendar placed the two games against the Granota team in the same week: on Wednesday, a draw in Valencia, a bad first half and a very good second, enough to win. Saturday, 0-2 at the Wanda Metropolitano. Atlético made more than 20 shots, but did not score. Y in four days five points disappeared. In a seen and not seen, Madrid had gotten to three.
Oblak, who had taken almost three years without stopping a penalty, recovered the gift to stop Joselu in the 86th minute of that Atlético-Alavés (1-0). The leader had the game under control, but a maximum penalty in the last section made everyone tremble. until the Slovenian became a giant and repelled him to protect the triumph. A stop of those that are worth a League, And on the following day, in the Pizjuán, Ocampos stopped another penalty. And there would still be more scares from 11 meters …
Atlético arrived at Villamarín with their tongue out. Without Llorente, nor Suárez, and with João Félix played (he only endured the first part). Carrasco scored early, Tello called and the second half was a rojiblancos survival exercise, very fatigued. Even so, in the final stretch Correa forgave two very clear occasions that could give the victory to Atleti (1-1). As soon as the referee whistled, Simeone went to console the striker with a hug, sunk by what had happened. It is one of the photos of the League in Atleti code. But it was not only the gesture, but Cholo gave Angelito confidence to become one of the reasons for this title.
The leader left Bilbao touched (2-1, five days from the end), but after the drink, an angry team reappeared and ready to rebel against a dramatic outcome. Koke's famous audio that was leaked warned: “We are the p … Atleti … The easier the worse. We are going to win this League “. His attitude in Elche was very good, also his football, but oh, in the 90th minute and with 0-1, a penalty by Llorente's hand. It is time to pray to Saint Oblak, who launched himself well for Fidel's launch, but the ball was so tight that it ended up crashing into the post. Safe triumph, again testing the hearts of the people.
Matchday 35 had been marked in red for months: Barça-Atlético and Real Madrid-Seville, the four applicants in a double face to face. The thing was so tight that Atleti could not even be worth the draw in a field in which they had not won since 2006. But the rojiblancos showed a champion attitude at the Camp NouThey had a few chances in the first half, but Ter Stegen prevented a 0-0 break that left Madrid with options to be the leader. However, a day later too there were tables in Valdebebas. Things stayed the same, with one less day ahead: only Atleti depended on itself, three wins away from being champion.
After winning the Real society, in principle the toughest rival, they were ahead Osasuna (nothing was played anymore) and Valladolid (fighting to save themselves). And the suffering became uncontrollable. A constant agony for the goals that did not enter, for those that did, because the clock goes very fast, because it goes slow … Atleti could beat Osasuna, especially in the first half, but it was seen with a 0-0 that only Budimir broke in 76 ', in the rojillos' first shot on goal. I arrive the already historic hydration pause, the Cholo's “head forts” and a quarter of an hour in which the leader tried to continue imposing his good football, nothing to besiege desperately. Lodi tied and Suárez saved the League in 88 '. Valladolid remained. And again he started losing, this time from 17 '. In Zorrilla it was seen an Atleti more gripped, although it generated a good handful of occasions as well. Y strap, the one with the Villamarín hug, tied with a so much “on tiptoe” and in '67, he arrived the goal of the League, the work of Luis Suárez, who completed his personal rematch and gave him the Eleventh to Atlético.
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