[Sport] Suárez is not bored of winning

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Eliminated from the Cup and without a place in the Super Cup, we had not heard from the leader for some time. At this point in such a strange course it is no longer clear whether such an interval between games is beneficial for the physical or harmful for the competitive. If we have to judge by the result we would aim for the first, if we have to judge by the performance to the second. But Koke wasn't there, which puts the latter in quarantine. Without the captain there is no paradise ... but with Suárez there are goals. And the Uruguayan's double, the decisive one forcing a last-minute penalty, served to win a match that Atlético surely did not deserve, but that rises equal to the classification. Of Panenka, in addition, perhaps to compensate for what he had experienced a long time before with another maximum penalty.

Simeone had resolved the loss of Hermoso by moving Giménez towards that left sector, which is not as comfortable as any other in the line of three. Add that Carrasco is not a side, at most lane, and the result is the space left between Uruguayan and Belgian in the first substitution for a local long ball to fly towards Muto's domains. Yannick backed down, attending precisely to the ball, not the rival, with the consequence that he stepped on it. The rest they put between Dmitrovic, throwing it, and Mendilibar, allowing it to throw it. Eibar lived an almost unusual experience, that of getting ahead of Atlético in this championship. At that time the goalkeepers had scored almost 15% of the goals that the leader concedes: one of seven. This is how such a statistic would be, good are these people for that.

Carrasco's next two actions also gave us food for thought, a gifted corner, an absurd (and involuntary) ball to the referee, so El Cholo took action on the matter: Lodi to warm up. That blood did not reach the river, in any case, because Atlético gradually became a match that had been born uncomfortable and in which in any case they always missed one more point of precision. The rojiblanco team gained meters, finally causing the always advanced armera defense to retreat, but that barely allowed a Correa volley to caress the crossbar. The leader seemed to deflate again in the final stretch of the first act.

But football is unpredictable, we will never tire of writing it, and where there was nothing there was a draw. Because Sergio Álvarez was slow to clear a ball, so that Llorente arrived in time to intercept it under pressure, and because Sergio Álvarez, already in a hurry, screwed up the second attempt to ward off danger. Luis Suárez, always on the prowl, had no choice but to exercise the trade of a gunman. There was still time for a furious reaction from Eibar, which put several disturbing centers to an area that the three visiting centrals did not finish dominating, rather the opposite this time, but a header from Kike García went off course and in the intermission he arrived with boards. It was not the worst possible news for an Atlético that on the 21st day of the 21st century had started the wrong way due to an error on their number 21. Seen in this way, it even has a certain logic.

Simeone did not wait any longer and made changes: Joao Félix defends less than Correa but Torreira defends more than Lemar, so the double movement tended to a balance that did not prevent the repetition of the previous events, read that Eibar got involved much earlier than Atlético. A mistake by Saúl, more inside than midfielder already, offered the first chance to Kike García; a spectacular foul by Felipe, who was late for almost all of them (yellow and serious flirtation with the red one as a result), caused Arbilla's second. They both left by a span. Definitely the substitutions had seated the leader in that way, the game was definitely going back to play much closer to Oblak than to Dmitrovic. No loot to bag, but closer anyway.

Until at the last minute the Cholo squad reappeared. With a career of Suárez towards the door that Arbilla interrupted and to which the referee applied the minimum punishment in the form of the color of the card, first. With a shot from Joao to which Dmitrovic responded with a great hand, later. And with the decisive play, finally, in which the local center back sinned naively to which the Uruguayan protected the ball. The technology granted what was already indicated by the whistle, because there was contact, the intensity is what is discussed, and the ram did the rest. The 9 is not bored of winning. The leader, either.