The Metropolitan earns the plaque

The Metropolitan could already have a plaque with his name in his garden, his walk of legends. And it is that the Atlético field has been losing over the years the adjective with which it was inaugurated in 2017, new, to stay in Wanda Metropolitano to dry (or with the new one, but only referring to the Metropolitan, in reference to Cuatro Caminos ). A hundred matches have passed since It was inaugurated on September 17, 2017 against Malaga, in a rush, an esplanade of dust, nostalgia to leave the Calderón behind. Today, none of it is still standing, only debris accumulated on the right bank of the M-30 where it stood yesterday. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan has stopped smelling the back of the books in September, like a new box. He already keeps memories, games (against Dortmund, against Juve, against Liverpool), demons (Qarabag), history and a League won on his grass resting in his guts.

And is that, in its first hundred games, Atlético has turned its stadium into a fort. He has only given up six defeats. Some numbers that improve those of the last one hundred Calderón games (11 defeats), although it has achieved fewer victories, 71 for the 75 for Calderón, and more draws, 23 for 14. 176 are the goals that the rojiblanco team has scored under the Metropolitan leadership since Griezmann scored the first against Malaga while 213 were those that were celebrated in the last hundred Atlético games at the Calderón. In goals conceded the fortress commands: 54 by 84.

The numbers

Atlético has played the League, the Champions League and the Europa League in their field. Also Cup, but something is curious about this last competition: he has been losing two seasons in the first duel and two seasons, therefore, without receiving rivals in his field. In Champions every year since 2017, except for the first, which was third in the Champions group and fell to the Europa League, a competition that he won, by the way, He has always played four games in Europe, the three in the group phase and the round of 16, where he was eliminated … Except for two seasons, when this pandemic began, something that Atlético has already had to live in the Metropolitan and that it will be part of his history forever, that he reached the quarterfinals … But that tie, against Leipzig, he could not live at home but in Lisbon, due to the anti-COVID bubble. On Sunday, against Villarreal, he will play the 101. The 100 could not be better, with the return of the public and the champion hall.