From Levant to Levant

The football calendar, LaLiga, is like this. Suddenly, Levante. In a week back from Champions, LaLiga in the Metropolitan and that rival. It is a postponed day, the 21st, as a year ago it was the 2nd. And it is curious: Levante on February 20, 2021, Levante on February 16, 2022. In between, so many things. Because from Levante to Levante, Atleti has experienced an unexpected fall, a collapse, despite winning LaLiga last season. But it was on the last day, with the radio pressing, pending Madrid and their match, like the previous day, the penultimate, against Osasuna. The rojiblancos won it by two points, in Valladolid. Lost all the advantage that it had on February 20, 2020 in the 14 games that remained until the end of the season.

Before that game against Levante was a first round of newspapers, a record first round for the rojiblancos. 50 points, ten ahead of the second, 50 of a possible 57, in 19 games. When he received Levante he had 58 in 24 games (18 wins, four draws, one loss). A Levante that won that day, 0-2, goals from Hermoso and De Frutos. Something broke then. Something that Atleti has not fixed yet.

57 points in the League, in 360 days

The data is meridians. Before February 20, 2021, he had played 24 league games, 58 points, a league that started in September, 58 points in 161 days. 360 later, Atlético del Cholo has added one point less, 57 in LaLiga, in double time. 37 matches, 19 wins, 10 draws, eight losses. Atypical numbers in the prodigious decade of Cholo, which tells how that game was a hinge, changed everything. Choking on a regular basis in the Ciutat de él, a field permanently Monday for Simeone, He has been three duels without being able to beat some granotas who arrive at the bottom, last in the table, but against which the rojiblancos chained seven wins in a row against them at home. Recover that seeks the Cholo. And that Levante, a year later, is once again a hinge. So different.