Santander League: For the Atletico it is again autumn: “The first half we didn't play it, as in October” LaLiga Santander 2019

Simeone assumes responsibility after falling in Eibar and breaking a streak of three straight wins in LaLiga. Sal again criticizes the attitude of the team, as he did in Valladolid and Leverkusen

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  A sad Attic receives from his own medicine
  

In the red-and-white bench of Ipurua, three kids bite their nails waiting for the Attic to achieve at least draw in the rain. Riquelme, Camello and scar Clemente were three of the solutions that Simeone had to get out of the air. A mistake in the goal of Esteban Burgos and another one of those starts that seemed to be a thing of the past, forced the Madrid team to fight without poison for a comeback that never came. “The first time we did not play it. All in October we lived with lost times and we did it again. It is my responsibility,” the Argentine coach was blamed, six days after losing the Supercup against Real Madrid on penalties.

Because the problem was not, as in other school nights, the lack of smell. It was simply that there were barely any balls in conditions to finish off. Dmitrovic, the beefy local goalkeeper, was hardly demanded even though the rojiblancos held the helm firmly during the second half. Of the 12 shots, only four went to goalkeeper and none made the balcnico shine.

“The start was again very bad and they go many times this season,” raise your voice again Salt, as he did in autumn after the goalless draw in Valladolid or, at the foot of the grass, after nailing the knee in Leverkusen. “We have not created clear occasions despite arriving a lot. We did not have much fluidity and we have lacked many things. It is a hard stick,” admits the fourth captain of the Atlantic, who played for more than an hour as a left back. “We have to be smarter playing,” he claimed to his teammates and, also, himself.

Even so, when Simeone saw that the matter had a difficult solution, in the last 10 minutes, he turned to Camel (three goals) and scar Clemente (eight), guys with a goal in the brilliant subsidiary of Second B, to discover a crack in the Eibar. In the first round, Riquelme He was chosen to pursue a comeback in the Wanda Metropolitano that, then yes, arrived at the last hour and served to place himself at the head of the classification for the first and last time.

After three straight wins in LaLiga, the Atletico falls again. And he did it in a place where Simeone had never twisted his gesture. “We can win and lose against anyone. We have not lost points that were planned,” says the Argentine coach, whose team now lies, after the third league defeat of the season, eight points from Real Madrid. And maybe last Sunday, also eight from Barcelona. “If you enter the games badly, the rivals are prepared to overcome you,” he summarizes.

Two weeks after the winter market closes, the name of Edinson Cavani It continues to rumble in the Attic's den. But in Ipurua, as happened to Morata, Correa or Joao Flix, the smell of the Uruguayan could not be solved.