Llorente, a year of rojiblanco: “The best is yet to come”

Atlético celebrated on social networks Marcos Llorente's first year as a rojiblanco. The 25-year-old who returned to be the protagonist in the match against Alavés, was introduced as a new Atleti player exactly one year ago, although his transfer had been made official on June 20, 2019, two days after the goodbye Rodrigo.

The club looked for a substitute for the pivot in the maximum rival, a Real Madrid that hardly had Llorente. After a start to the course with few opportunities, reaching December with fewer minutes of rojiblanco than white, Simeone was finding accommodation for '14' on the right wing. As Cholo recently recognized, “after so much effort he made, always training well, without protesting or having a bad predisposition after being left out a lot of times, in the end the people who work always have a prize“

And that Marcos Llorente grand prize came on March 11, when he jumped onto the Anfield pitch with the score 1-0 against Liverpool that would lead to overtime and achieved a gold double when the Reds had come back from the tie to place Atlético in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Finished his big night with an assist to Morata for 2-3 in a magical night of those of Simeone.

Since then Llorente has been on a cloud, regardless of the break due to the coronavirus health crisis. Full of confidence and in an impressive physical state, He has become the fashionable striker in the rojiblanca squad. Simeone has invented a position for Llorente that fits him like a glove behind the point, with meters to run and a devilish ability to beat the defenders by power.

Thus he left virtues in San Mamés, He blew up the game at El Sadar with a goal and two assists after leaving from the bench, he was key in the winning goal against Levante and turned the game against Alavés also from the bench causing the fault that led to the first goal and the penalty kick to the second.

Atlético celebrated Llorente's first year as a rojiblanco on networks with the images of his presentation. The player, who came with a defensive vocation and now only looks at the rival door, add four goals, more than in all his previous seasons between Real Madrid and Alavés together (two goals with Madrid in three courses and none with Alavés in one), in addition to three assists, four counting Levante that ended in own goal. The club asked for Llorente's best moment in his athletic year on his social networks, but the player is clear: “the one to come”.