From Atlético's most offensive line, so much so that it did not seem formed by Simeone, their most minutes in years came out. A wonderful flurry of football, full of first touch combinations, movement, inspiration, beauty and goals. Everything that Atlético did not have, a corpse project, appeared suddenly and in overwhelming numbers. Suddenly, Pelé's Brazil. The miracle of the loaves and fishes. Forgotten happiness in the Metropolitan.
And at the head of the prodigious sequence, illuminating everything, a phenomenon with pink hair this time called Griezmann. Positioned as a false left winger (the drawing was a novel 4-3-3, or 4-5-1, compared to Valladolid's also novel 5-3-2), the Englishman drew an enormous, poetic performance, which he infected and he connected all his companions. Showing up, touching, giving away. Really sitting at the table of the best.
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In.Madrid: Oblak; Nahuel, Witsel, Hermoso, Reinildo; Llorente (De Paul, m.56), Koke (Saúl, m.75), Lemar (Kondogbia, m.59); Correa, Morata (Memphis, m.75) and Griezmann (Carrasco, m.56).
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Valladolid: Masip; Luis Pérez (Fresneda, m.60), Javi Sánchez (Rosa, m.68), El Yamiq, David Torres, Olaza (Silver, m.60); Flat, Kike (Roque Mesa, m.75), Aguado; Sergio León (Guardiola, m.75) and Weissman.
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Goals: 1-0, m.19: Morata. 2-0, m.23: Griezmann. 3-0, m.27. beautifull
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Referee: Burgos Bengoetxea. He showed REinildo yellow
The explosion came with the first goal, m.19, a response to the desire to attack previously shown by Valladolid. Koke looked for Griezmann, who was floating on the terrace of the area, and the Englishman turned the event into gold with a subtle, elegant touch of a spur, which Morata accompanied with a synchronized clearance (all the appearance, in the end, of a worked play) and He closed with a genius brooch: a sublime vintage and a delicious auction. The goal of the season.
The 1-0 left Valladolid groggy and elevated Atlético to ecstasy, which began to be carried away by all kinds of triangulations and collective actions. A constant and delicious touch and move that forced the public (in silence the hoooligan zone) to pinch themselves. A tap of good game that was closed with two new goals. The 2-0 score, from Griezmann, was also beautiful, a kind of heel shot with his right foot, strange but precious, a pass from Nahuel at the end of a siege in which the entire team participated. A herd.
The 3-0 also included the Englishman: a free kick caressed with his left foot that Hermoso headed the first, Masip cleared as best he could, and pushed the center-back with his right until the second red. A 15-minute gale that no longer had a possible history to meet, completely closed when it came to rest.
The second half could not compete with the lack of interest and everything decided. The Metropolitan staff did not take the smile off their faces, Valladolid showed dignity to resist what had no two ways about it and Atlético, now without the duende of the first half, tried to like each other but without the incentive of the need. But nothing was the same anymore. Above all, because Griezmann's differential light was missing, to which Simeone granted rest (Real Madrid appears on Thursday).
The technician also retired Marcos Llorente, although with a worse diagnosis. The explosive midfielder, who had been announcing a moment of reborn form, memory of the League title course, gave the feeling of leaving injured. Or almost (and Real Madrid, what has been said, appears on Thursday). He was replaced not by Barrios but by De Paul, who seems to have already received a pardon for his misplaced parties. The boy from the quarry, on the other hand, was suddenly substituted in the horrible first half against Levante, fell out of the lineup and doesn't even play anymore. And the question reappears: was Simeone's sudden confidence in the youth squad or real demagogic and opportunistic? There will be.
In the final quarter of an hour, Simeone allowed himself the luxury of making his debut in Memphis. A contained but testimonial irruption. He gave time already has a gourmet pass in Carrasco (a threat of society) there he has to show off with a chopped regatta. But in reality, the game was already over when he entered. Griezmann and his Atlético had left it resolved in ten supersonic minutes that will not reach us. He gave more sensation of his merit than of the rival's merit. Although something too exceptional to insinuate that this dazzling mattress version is here to stay and it was not just a fleeting passage.
