[Sport] Correa unleashes Atlético: balsamic win to gain momentum

[SougarLord]

 

"Get up and walk," Ángel Correa told Atlético. And the leader, obedient, encouraged by his formidable double when doubts returned to haunt his soul, stampeded to take Eibar ahead (5-0). Correa scared away the intrigue of an afternoon that, until his irruption, seemed like a labyrinth for the rojiblancos. The aim that had turned his back on the Argentine suddenly appeared, when his team needed it most. Then came the pithing to the bottom of Llorente (2) and Carrasco. A precise dose of morale with which to launch the race for the title. And, although it may not seem like it, Atlético has never stopped being the leader.

 

The unmistakable voice of Luis Suárez slipped through the corners of the silent Wanda Metropolitano. Correa, the one chosen to play precisely Suárez, injured, had just pulled his tusk to catch a ball and launch one against. "Hit it, hit it!", He roared him with that classic broken voice timbre from no one knows where. He was not next to his companions, like Joao Félix, but he was pushing with his lungs as if he were really wandering on the grass. It was a premonitory scream. As if letting his spirit escape from his body to take that of little Correa. The boy who, after two consecutive visits to Seville throwing his hands to his face for the occasions thrown overboard, changed the course of a nondescript afternoon that threatened something strange. It doesn't ruin, but it does intrigue.

 

Correa is unpredictable. He has been since he landed in Madrid, six years ago. And he alone, with two claws that Luis Suárez himself could well have signed, was in charge of rewriting the script when Atlético welcomed him to refresh his ideas in the dressing room. But Ángel, as if possessed by the spirit of Suárez, put an end to the doubts. First from set pieces, like old times, with a Trippier corner kick that Herrera combed and he pushed unopposed. Just in case, Savic walked with the boot ready and almost took his partner ahead. The strategy, which seemed rusty, got the leader out of a bind.

 

And with the rush, Correa again let his imagination fly. The final onslaught of Atlético was led by Carrasco and the Argentine forward, a meter from Dmitrovic, used a ballroom dance pass to get rid of Arbilla, with elegance, with mischief, as he used to do in his hometown, to give a good shot of adrenaline to a team in need of many things for this final sprint where they put their destiny at stake in the face of three threats that arrive emboldened after having left them without a mattress.

 

THE EIBAR SCARE

Until those two opportune and redeeming sparks from Correa, Atlético dispatched a leaden and indigestible after-dinner. It took more than half an hour to wake Dmitrovic from a nap, who did not perceive the slightest threat of danger. The bottom, with a handful of casualties and even a newcomer like Dufur, grabbed onto Mendilibar's manual to get a little more tangled in the leader's touched spirit. And Kevin Rodrigues could have done it, when the rojiblancos sailed through uncertainty, after winning Pozo his back on Lodi. However, there, in that play, the history of an Eibar whose wars are different is over. That of Granada, in a few days, without going any further. The Second Gorge lurks, after 14 games (with this one) without winning.

 

At last, Atlético awoke on Correa's back, not waiting to settle the matter with a win. With Eibar still in shock and the rojiblancos in a rush, Carrasco, galloping, as he likes best, split the gunsmith team in two. And Marcos Llorente, that midfielder with a soul and striker numbers (he already has 11 goals), finished off the eleventh assist of the course by Correa himself, who left at game time with the feeling of having redeemed his sins. Then he would complete the little hand with a gift from Carrasco.

 

Herrera was toned, which is close to the beginning of the course, Lodi awakened and Dembélé, the expected one, had half an hour to try to earn an extra life in Madrid. Without Lemar, again down at the last minute, neither Suárez nor Joao Félix, Simeone breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, Atlético had a calm afternoon, which is also needed from time to time. He shot seven times and scored five goals. A resounding win, the second of the season, to gain momentum. It was a regenerative session in which the leader felt like a leader again.