The game on Tuesday 19 is special for Atlético for many reasons. Because he plays it after a long hiatus of national teams, 17 days without competing for the return of the Conmebol footballers. Because it’s Liverpool, matchday three of the group stage. Liverpool, the team against which they played the round of 16 match in which Llorente entered the history of the rojiblanca and that, until the return of the public this season, was the last of their lives before, before the pandemic close everything. But if it is special for Atlético in general and for Llorente in particular, there is another Atlético footballer with a large pending account with Klopp’s team. One of those accounts that time passes and still hurts. Liverpool’s injury. It is also ex.
Because Luis Suárez played for Liverpool from 2010 to 2014, when he signed for Barcelona. Simeone, by the way, acknowledged last summer that at that time he tried to sign him, but then it was not possible. Yes when the club coach for Koeman communicated to him by a call of “30 seconds” as the player himself revealed that he was no longer worth, that he had to train separately, as if he were not a legend. Those were the times of Messi’s burofax, the last of Bartomeu in the presidency. The anger with which Suárez arrived at Atlético is already in the Museum. They were converted into 21 goals on the grass. And a league. The first lifted by Koke with the bracelet.
Reunion
A rage that can fill your boots this Tuesday. Only twice has he crossed paths again in football with that team that he came to from Ajax and that gave him the ticket to Barcelona. 30 goals in 44 games in 2012-13, 31 in 37 in 2013-14. Both in the semifinals of the 2018-19 Champions League. Barcelona, then trained by Valverde, completed the first leg with a 3-0 at the Camp Nou that shone like a pass to the final, with a goal from the Uruguayan in the 26th minute. But then, the debacle, the memory of Roma in his legs and in his head, a tie he held in his hand and when he opened it there was only defeat, a debacle. Something that was repeated at Anfield. 4-0. Barça out. Two years later, on Tuesday, Luis Suárez will have him in front of him again. To Liverpool. And to the memory of that.