“It lacked intensity.” The dressing room of the Athletic despite the agonizing victory in Getafe. A triumph that does not hide the shortcomings of a team who is having a hard time capturing the superiority of the past year. On the back of Luis Suarez managed to rescue the victory, the Uruguayan being the positive face of a team that has in Griezmann the negative.
The Frenchman has not just started since his return something that can cost him his position in the eleven with the competition of Correa, Joao and a Cunha who signed good minutes in Getafe. Be that as it may, Atlético remains at the top of the table despite the minutes that it is disconnected in several games since the best version of some of its stars is still expected. They are the two faces of the champion.
Suárez, scorer from start to finish
“Anyone would have removed Suárez and Suárez scored goals”, slipped satisfied Diego Pablo Simeone still in the bowels of the Coliseum. The apparent bad physical moment of the Uruguayan had placed him in the trigger after three games (Espanyol, Porto and Athletic) with wet gunpowder and playing far from their natural habitat, where it hurts, the rival area. For Simeone, in any case, there are no doubts about who is its owner. As we have in MARCA, the center forward will continue to be the Uruguayan and he thanked him as best he knows, signing two goals that gave three vital points.
Something that is not new for Suárez in his year as a rojiblanco. The past course already gave victories in the final minutes against Alavés, Eibar or Osasuna, to cite three of the matches that the Metropolitano won when the clock approached the end and that were fundamental, especially the one that faced those of Pamplona, to end up winning a League that would not have been possible without the 21 goals scored by Suarez.
A figure that the forward knows he has in his legs to repeat, something he has done since he made the leap from Uruguay to Dutch football to undertake one of the most brilliant careers in Europe in the last decade. His more than 500 goals as a professional They are the best proof that Luis is a scorer from start to finish … also of a career in which he sees himself with the strength to stay in the front row for longer.
For now, despite the criticism that the 9 says not to worry about, he is already the rojiblanco top scorer of the season with three goals. His double against Getafe, plus the goal that took his signature against Villarreal, equal the three of Ángel Correa, the other offensive player who is holding an Atlético who has more offensive potential than ever but who is struggling to generate football so that his forwards, with Suárez at the head, capture the superiority in the game of the current tournament champion.
Griezmann does not just let go
Nobody better than Simeone to know how much Antoine Griezmann can give to Atlético. He already did it for five years (it is the top scorer with the Argentine with 133 goals) And he will return, the Argentine understands, to do so in this new stage that began less than a month ago. “He is in the process of adapting to this new Atlético, which is not the one he was in,” said El Cholo after a Griezmann’s new gray performance since he returned to the entity on August 31.
And it is that in the fourth game as rojiblanco, third in the starting eleven, Antoine went unnoticed againor. Nothing was heard from him, or from the rest of the team, in the first act. He improved somewhat after the break (he had a clear chance that he narrowly left) but he was chosen by the Argentine coach to refresh the attack by giving Cunha entry. So far came the participation of 8, which isand went to the bench without the greeting of a Simeone that he was focused on the game and that he does not hesitate to move the team no matter how many gallons he has substituted. The Frenchman knows it, since he has been replaced in the three games he has started.
And is that Griezmann is not living his best start to the season. At the club level the cAsillero scorer remains at zero both in his first games with Barça and Atlético. Perhaps he is weighing an excess of shyness in the field that does not match his character and the leadership of an Antoine who does not quite let go … for now.
