[Sport] Atlético loses the chance

[#Steeven.™]

Soccer offers occasions that can mark a game ... and who knows if something else. The collective maneuver had already been splendid, but the individual of Suárez to enable the shot was at the height of the above. They did not have the tremendous hand of Aitor, who in any case could barely leave the ball dead for Correa to push. It was goal or goal, but with the Argentine there is no logic that is worth. Not for the good ... not for what he did.

Because he threw her high, before the general disbelief, and from that moment it was evident, although there was still a world missing, the story revolves around the start of the second part, that this time the loot was not the leader. That he gave himself with a song in the teeth distributing it, because at the last minute he would still appreciate a prodigious hand from Oblak to deny Clerc's target

There are those who only see what they want to see, and nothing can be done in that case, but for the average spectator there is no way to recognize this Atlético, turned into a team that tries to bite in attack but trembles in defense. The fiefdom of Levante was the fourth station of the leader's particular Via Crucis, the one that led him to concede a goal in the first half to be in tow later. As against Eibar. Like against Valencia. As against Celta. In all cases he was able to tie before the intermission, only in two of them to pocket after the game. And it is that you cannot live permanently with the hook.

Simeone's team had taken the ball, although at the start it always turned it towards the area from which Vrsaljko tried to put sags in the area. Suárez was the only one who was looking for them, it would not have hurt any help no matter how good the Uruguayan striker is, but little happened until, recovering the definition of the classic, Atlético decided to shoot himself in the foot: it was Giménez who he pulled the trigger this time, cornered by Bardhi in the absurd search for a ball that went to De Frutos, first, and to the Macedonian himself, later, in the precise resolution of an unexpected hand-to-hand.

The point is that, regardless of the result, Paco's squad had a hard time getting rid of rival harassment to get the ball played. When he passed the midfield he created danger, and Roger did not walk too far from the second in one of those, but he hardly passed. So the leader was gaining meters and trying his luck. A shot from Suárez, another shot from Correa, that if Saúl now counters her ... until the one that usually appears when the 9 does not appear.

Llorente hit it from afar and lo and behold, Róber Pier stuck his head in unhappily. There was nothing he could do to avoid the draw Aitor, who nevertheless responded perfectly to the subsequent visitor arreón in search of the second. He was about to arrive but he did not arrive, and the thing about Suárez is starting to be curious: his relationship with the game is inversely proportional to what he has with the goal, so that the more it appears the less concrete.

Simeone did what he did in Granada but in reverse. If in the halftime of that clash he had included Vrsaljko for Kondogbia, in the halftime of this one he included Kondogbia for Vrsaljko. The local bench had also moved, Duarte for Radoja, but there was no time to check the effects of one or the other before Correa happened.

Everything else was a wish and I cannot be a visitor, with Levante getting stronger and stronger. Llorente and Suárez insisted, but each time with less oxygen, and the rest seemed to assume that if she had not entered, none would enter. So they didn't even create them. Cholo's changes sounded desperate, to the point of recovering even the defenestrated Vitolo, and in fact they were gradually denaturing the team. None of those who had entered contributed, anyway, and Oblak had to be pulled over the horn. Lost opportunity, in every sense of the expression