Sunday, December 15, 2024, 4:00 p.m.
The sun rose again in the Metropolitano. At Vermouth time, where the red and white streak continued. Unmatched in all of Europe. Santa hats in the stands of a team that is experiencing a spectacular moment. Those in the San Blas-Canillejas neighborhood are untreatable. Game they play, game they win. The eleventh in a row, without brilliance of course, came against the tough and uncomfortable Getafe de Bordalás, against whom the locals came out with the speed of the honoree in the preliminary stages Jorge Martín, MotoGP world champion and self-confessed athleticist, in a duel where he amassed the ball from the beginning and proposed to arrive dangerously through their wings.
Diego Simeone did not want any type of scare with a continuous eleven that he later had to shake up, after straightening out a team that a month and a half ago issued alarm signals in terms of play and results. Cholo has put the puzzle together to achieve a block that is sweet and appears more than reliable to face Barcelona, against whom he will have a great battle for the leadership in the last event of the year in Montjuic. No one currently goes through such a sequence of triumphs like the Colchoneros in the federations that UEFA brings together.
Against the azulones it was a stone-breaking victory, on par with an always competitive and annoying rival, who made Simeone’s team go through limping moments due to the lack of aim, on several occasions, of Lino, De Paul, Julián Álvarez, Giuliano or Pablo Barrios. Those from the south of the capital had their role very clear, accumulating efforts in defense to achieve some gallop on the counterattack and thus overlook an Oblak who defended the goal in the first act in a lively southern background, where the Ultras of the Front are located, who sang again after the animation strike due to the club’s internal sanctions.
The gift of the goal took a long time to arrive at a coliseum full of Christmas atmosphere, where Cholo’s pupils insisted with all their might to add another victory and make any attempt at rebellion by the people of Getafe difficult. It was Alexander Sorloth who won the award shortly after entering the green of Avenida de Luis Aragonés. A good header from the Norwegian, after a pass from Nahuel Molina, unbalanced things on the local side so that the afternoon ended with a happy ending, just like all their dates from the last night of Halloween onwards. Some exciting figures for Atletico fans that are no coincidence, and that they are only three wins away from their best mark in history, when in 2012, also with Simeone, they reached thirteen.