Jose Maria Gimenez premiered on Tuesday in this edition of the Champions League in a big way. Making a great meeting in the center of the rear and scoring the goal of the mattress box with a good header. A sensation, that of celebrating a goal, practically forgotten for the Uruguayan with the Atlético de Madrid.
Because to find your last target you have to go back more than a year and a half in time. It was in February 2019 when Gimenez marked before Juventus in the Metropolitan, also in Champions. Since then he had not seen a door as a mattress. Until he connected an excellent head to advance Atlético against the Lokomotiv.
And it was not only that negative streak that was broken in the Russian capital. Also the long time without a rojiblanco defense piercing the opposite goal. Eleven months specifically. Because since the beginning of the year a goal from a mattress defender has not been seen. You have to go back to January 4 to find the last one. Felipe did it against Levante in the Metropolitan.
The Brazilian, with two goals, was the most prolific defender in this regard, within the poor scoring numbers of this team line. Why Philip scored two goals, Savic one and I gave it other. Four in all. A very low balance compared, for example, with the 13/14 season, in which the Atlético defense scored 15 goals, eight of which were signed by GodinAnd two years ago, there were ten goals scored by the rear.
Gimenez, who has scored nine goals for Atlético in 192 games, broke two negative heads-up streaks in Moscow on Tuesday and opened an account that, without a doubt, the team of Diego Simeone you need to feed this season if you want to fight for the competitions that you dispute.