Even if it is not necessary, Simeone always remembers the fans. The game doesn’t matter. He knows that he is the fundamental combat element of the red and white team. The part that should never fail. The social nucleus that screws a party together. Even more so in a quarterfinal in which Atlético must take advantage in the first leg against Dortmund to travel with a pill of peace of mind to Signal Iduna Park, a stadium that, like the Metropolitano, always hits first.
The time change benefits football
They are two references of the environmental pressure that have resisted modern football. Where you don’t go to the field as mere spectators, where occupying a seat means being a soldier in a cause that has the local team as its flag. Three hours before the start of Atlético – Borussia Dortmund, the ‘colchoneros’ fans gathered, for whom every meeting at the Metropolitano is festive. In what it entails, not in the duty and job of cheering on the club “for which we give our lives”, as one stated before the Champions League match.
“Don’t insult us, go ahead, your mother is going to punish us both,” a father told his son with resignation while they waited for their team bus. But anyone puts on a muzzle when they are part of a large group of souls that supported the arrival of the red and white transport on a sunny afternoon. If the time change has been good for something, it is football, which responds much better with the altered clock..
“A double from Morata and a goal from Griezmann”
Despite the exaggerated effusiveness that the father reproached his son, there were no incidents recorded in the preview with the Borussia Dortmund fans, one of those who have the culture of the stands at their core. This is associated with knowing how to travel and never leaving aside a team that is fifth in the Bundesliga, but that is not in this round by chance.. “We are not favorites of anything”, a fan insisted on saying to his teammate, who was fantasizing about a double from Morata and a goal from Griezmann. A 3-0 that would be ‘enough’ for Simeone’s men to travel safely to Germany.
The key to the duel will be concentration and this is precisely the attribute that the Atlético fans demonstrated before receiving their team’s coach with all the honors. Due to the large presence of fans, word of the arrival spread from one to another, with the fluidity that the Atlético with the ball tonight.
The same one that they usually demonstrate as locals. For mental hygiene, the setback against Barça in LaLiga is more than forgotten, although in Germany they have asked Getafe, capable of tying twice at the Metropolitano, how we have to harass Simeone’s men to make them lose the reason that gave them a pass to this round.
2024-04-10 18:46:27
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