Carrasco and Correa throw Atlético on their backs

Atlético added in the last minute of the summer market to Antoine Griezmann to form a dream striker. Players of a great level and goal, standing out the French, Luis Suárez and João Félix as headliners, something that could also be verified in Saudi Arabia, being chosen as the reference mattress in the country in which the Spanish Super Cup was played.

A new season where Ángel Correa was destined for a theoretically more secondary role… until the field has once again shown otherwise. Between Griezmann’s injuries, Suárez’s drought and João’s little continuity, the Argentine striker is being the mainstay in the athletic forward. A player who has not missed any game so far this season and who, with his goal against Valencia, which put the momentary tie in the 90th minute, reached eight goals in the league, which places him as the team’s top scorer in the competition. Correa would also participate three minutes later in the goal that unleashed the madness in the Wanda Metropolitano. He received an inside pass from Herrera and first combined heel with Cunha so that his center-shot turned into Hermoso’s goal that put Atlético back on the winning path.

Both, Argentine and Brazilian, they had entered the field with a 0-2 on the scoreboard that was a slab. In the case of Correa, he came out at half-time to try to give the team another air from the bench. Cunha for his part had the opportunity in the 57th minute, when Simeone revolutionized his scheme by withdrawing Lemar and João Félix to introduce the striker, already fixed with Brazil, and Felipe in a controversial substitution. However, that movement returned Carrasco to the left wing and allowed to find a prodigious last half hour from the Belgian.

A soldier for Simeone, who since his return from China he is even more engaged in collective work, but that when he lets his hair down he is practically unstoppable. Carrasco had started on the right, constantly helping Vrsaljko and coming into play a little in a sector where it is more difficult for him to be unbalanced, since he doesn’t have that inside dribble with his right hand that allows him to see the field much more open. But, on the left, it was torture for Valencia. Dribbling, pipes, controls of an exquisite technique and a lot of production for Atlético, who turned his attacks around his zone concentrating players in the area in search of the goal.

From a corner taken by Carrasco Cunha’s goal of hope would come, another player who always adds up when he comes out. And in a center with the outside towards Suárez that Jaume could not stop, it fell to Correa to make it 2-2. Carrasco was emptied, he left after suffering a very hard blow to the face in another worthwhile defensive action and received the affection of a Metropolitan Wanda surrendered to its quality and work. With five goal passes, the Belgian is already the top assister in the squad, surpassing Correa himself and Lemar. Carrasco and Correa, two players without so much focus, but who are once again the bite of Atlético.