The other challenge for Suárez and Oblak: how long have Atletico Pichichi and Zamora not won at the same time?

The numbers smile at Atlético in this start of the League. To begin with is the leader, the most important of all. It is also the least thrashed team in Primera (6), by far, and the second that marks the most (29), although with a better average than the first, Barça (30 in one more game). At the individual level, Suárez has nine goals, the one that most together with Gerard Moreno and Aspas. The team is always above the individualities, but while fighting for the title, Atleti will do it for the Zamora with Oblak and the Pichichi with the Uruguayan …

For the Slovenian it is not a new situation, far from it. The last year slipped away, but it was the Goalkeeper least thrashed in Primera during the previous four seasons, 2015-19. Now he flies for his fifth Zamora, at the height of those who have the most, Ramallets and Valdés. The Uruguayan also knows what it is to win the Pichichi. He did it in 2015-16 with 40 goals. That is to say, it coincided in time with Oblak, only that the forward was then wearing a blaugrana. Now they fight to achieve it as Atlético footballers, a feat that it hasn't happened for half a century …

Atlético has 12 Zamora trophies and 10 Pichichis, but at the same time the rojiblanco team only has achieved them in 1970-71. That year, the team was third, playing for the title on the last day, but as a consolation, Gárate was the top scorer (17, along with Rexach) and Rodri, the goalkeeper who conceded the least (17 in 28). For the striker it was his third consecutive award. Curiously, the one from the previous year (1969-70), in which Atleti was champion, shared the Pichichi with his teammate Luis Aragones and with the madridista Amancio.

The last mattress top scorer was Forlán, who also won the Golden Boot (2009). Since then they have been distributed between Cristiano and Messi, except for the one mentioned by Suárez. Falcao (28 points, 2013) and Diego Costa (27, 2014) are the rojiblancos that have come closest in the last decade. In the other part of the field, of the twelve seasons with Zamora, half are in the Simeone era (Oblak's four plus two with Courtois). The goalkeeper has him within reach and, if Suárez maintains the rhythm, Atleti aspires to a historical record …