Atlético's "ingenuity" for four youth players to win two games in three hours

Munuera Montero scored seven minutes of injury time until the end of the match between Atlético de Madrid and Real Sociedad. Seven eternal minutes for the rojiblancos and more after Griezmann's penalty that put Simeone's team ahead on the scoreboard. But four of the members of the athletic bench were biting their nails for another reason.

Kostis, Gismera, Niño and El Jebbari had been called up by Cholo to complete the call against a red and white squad plagued by casualties. However, the Argentine coach and the reserve team coach, Luis García Tevenet, had agreed that the three, if not playing with the first team, could help the B team regain the path of victory after three draws in a row and only one victory.. The subsidiary played at 6:00 p.m. at the Wanda Sports City in Majadahonda.

“We had spoken with Tevenet about having a car prepared,” Diego Simeone revealed in the press conference after the match against Real, while the three youth players flew towards Cerro del Espino. “Ingenuity to be able to compete all the time in all the places that belong to the club,” concluded Cholo.

The four youth players arrived just after San Fernando tied, 2-2, but there was still a world to play for. Three of them, Kostis, Gismera and El Jebbari came on in the 73rd minute and the red and white reserve team managed to go ahead again with a goal from Marco Moreno and then, already in stoppage time, the sentence from Sergio Guerrero.

His teammates and the coach, Luis García Tevenet, valued his “dedication for the club and the team”. A coach who knows that the reserves are there for that, to provide the first team with troops when it needs them.. “It is its main value. “That the players make their debut with the first team makes us feel more proud of our work every day,” he had said about this circumstance on the club's website.

Although Atlético B does not play in a category of professional football, it does so in group 2 of the Primera RFEF, surely it is not very often seen that three footballers achieve two victories at the competition level in this sport in just three hours. Many things are needed for that to happen, but also, as Cholo said, “ingenuity” is needed.