Simeone's revolution triumphs and takes first place in the group

Fidel Castro said: “A revolution is not a bed of roses, it is a fight between past and future”. It is still unknown why Diego Simeone, Atlético de Madrid's best coach, decided to revolutionize the number 11 in the most important game of the season.. Already classified, being first is capital for the red and white interests. The Argentine was looking for roses, with the danger of being pricked by their thorns, but the Metropolitano is his garden, and there is no one to cough on him.. 20 wins in a row. [Narrative and statistics, 2-0]

He reached them without his best striker, with the permission of the midfielder Griezmann, without his best midfielder and without his best center back, Witsel, whom he elevated to midfield.. one per line. The backbone of this Atlético. It is true that Griezmann doesn't care who is behind, in front or next to him.. The Frenchman is the best player of the 22 with his left or right foot.

Precisely, it would be the bad one, the right one, that he would use to culminate a good pressure from Lino on Marusic and thus overtake the red and whites.. Subtle touch to the base of the stick and the first to the pocket. Griezmann found the first rose of the European revolution from Cholo and kept two from Luis Aragonés. Then another great drive would fail culminating in the same leg, but the boy is human.

The thorns were in the central lane, the one in which Witsel sometimes vacated due to lack of routine to the delight of Zaccagni and Immobile and in which Savic, in charge of taking the ball in the Belgian's absence, gave away every pass between the lines he attempted.. Fortunately, the lacials could not find Luis Alberto, the player under whom they pivoted in the first leg in Rome. The time he appeared, he created a very clear chance that Guendouzi missed.

Another one who appeared, but where he shouldn't have, was Lino. Hermoso will have reasons to reproach the Brazilian for standing between him and the goal, through VAR, after a great play led by the center back and turned by Griezmann. When the public was already singing the goal, the referee went to the monitor and saw the defender crouching and bothering Provedel, disallowed. A shame, because the winger was Atlético's best attack.

Söyüncü's 'Redebut'

The match was surprisingly calm despite the Cholista revolution and Lazio's need to win to take first place from the red and whites.. These, with great judgment in launching the ball, rocked it and came closer to the future that Simeone plans for the red-and-white game than to his past warrior.. Likewise, the Argentine wanted to make the revolution his way and at half-time he brought out Griezmann, his best player, and made Söyüncü re-debut, a player who has barely reached 100 minutes this season.

The other one who came out was Memphis, who when he was injured was a lion, and today he is a cat, as Mourinho would like to say.. At least, despite being slightly ahead, he did not intervene in Atlético's second goal, a shot by Lino into the top corner after a rebound in the Italian defense.

To avoid more heart attacks, Simeone removed two of his praetorians just at the same moment in which Sarri decided to give up first place. Koke contained and Morata finished. No success, yes. As if he were the forward from other seasons. The Italian took Luis Alberto and Immobile off the field. Message loud and clear. The only thorns in the game for Atlético were leading the way to the locker room. Sarri put the Argentine revolutionary on a bed of roses.