in the name of the son

In the Atleti of the millions, what stands out in the end is the drive. No wonder. It is the essence of this team whose verb is to get up, the root is pure feeling. Giuliano has had his name attached to him since his cradle. It was Nahuel who sent him the ball, in a millimeter pass that reconciled him with the stands and himself. Giuliano left Kirian behind, tricking him with an uncheck to continue running towards Cillesen. He ran for his father, for all the times he toured the Calderón, as a ball boy, when he was a kid who came to see him from Argentina as a ball boy, before the jump from River to Cerro, to throw the door of this first team far away, Zaragoza and Vitoria, and finish breaking one of his father's principles: I will not train one of my sons. But Giuliano is the Simeone of the 21st century who is earning his place in that team for which his father scored a double at the end of the 20th.

The ball entered Cillesen's goal where the goalkeeper could not reach. The ole, ole, ole now has two protagonists. Giuliano celebrated by throwing himself on his knees on the grass and holding up a t-shirt with a slogan in Valencian: strength and encouragement. And, how difficult it is to truly celebrate, when so many people who suffer so much so close to you don't leave your head. Atleti had gone out to the game with the names of their supporters clubs in Paiporta and Utiel on flags in a minute of silence which was followed by a long excited applause in a match that belongs to a day that, perhaps, should not have been played this weekend .

A match that when it began, Atleti did so by escaping the heavy digestion that this season is experiencing. The return of Barrios and Lenglet was palpable from the beginning, with a cleaner release of the ball, the team with more rennet in the center. No one remembers Hancko anymore, by the way.

Diego Martínez insisted that La Palmas always come out with the ball played and that, from the beginning, turned out to be reckless: in the first minute Cillesen was already wearing his gloves for the first time to stop a shot from that Giuliano, who occupied the right lane, like Galán the left. They both played very advanced and gave the team what they miss most: the drive, the ability to die, my team dies. In the eight it was against Barrios that Cillesen had to take out the gauntlet. Atleti hovered around doing nothing but scratching, because when they arrived against Cillesen the spaces were filled with legs and Lino had forgotten to read unmarkings. And because De Burgos Bengoetxea did not see a penalty in a McKenna handball even if the VAR called him. His more than a minute and a half studying the play on the screen and the decision not to punish with a penalty, the daisy yesterday said it was accidental, woke up a stand, by the way, until now rather quiet.

Atleti entered through the wings, riding on the backs of those tireless Galan and Giulianowhile Las Palmas, the first time they forgot to play, stood up to Oblak: Cillesen sent the long ball from his goal for Fabio Silva's run and shot, a constant nuisance for Giménez. Oblak stopped. It was after Nahuel hit that ball like the footballer they signed two years ago, a good one, Giuliano ran and the Metropolitan once again celebrated Simeone's goal. The break came with a shot from Griezmann that hit the crossbar on the inside and went wide. Neither Barrios nor Lino would return to the field after the rest.

The second half took a while to start. Nahuel hit Cillesen on the head while going to finish off a pass from De Paul and the goalkeeper ended up leaving on a stretcher.with concussion. Las Palmas did not go beyond the center, no matter how much Essugo put criteria and order, Atleti controlled without danger, the stands, in the absence of opportunities, entertained themselves by singing “Vinicius beach ball”. Perhaps thinking of Paris, Cholo was saving stickers. Grizi, more beautiful than effective, and Julián, they all fight. Sorloth and Correa entered the field to applause. The match became heavy and Almax digested. The goalkeepers without a job, where only Giuliano ran in defense and attack, until Solorth bolstered his spirits with those applause with which he had come out to tear off Lille's spine and send another ball from De Paul into the net, strong and dry. The game ended although he still had minutes left and a nine-minute overtime with Atleti and without Cholito already on the field, already on the bench, behind his father, who ran to the tunnel when he heard the end running in his black suit, breathing , satisfied and excited. On the day that the greatest of the Simeone family was the smallest.

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