Atlético now has eleven consecutive victories. Eleven games since Simeone’s team began to clear up the doubts of a shaky start with a victory suffered in Vic in the Cup. Since then they only know how to win and are capable of finding victory in different ways. With wins, with comebacks or with suffered games like the one that Getafe proposed.
Nobody said it was easy, although Getafe has never managed to beat Simeone and for years was unable to even score a goal against him. But if the Bordalás team has something, it is that they don’t give anything away, even if they have to put in a couple of homegrown players from the beginning to wake up the starters.
Atlético had to wait for it to arrive the goal in a shot by Sorloth from a pass from Molina from the right. The changes worked for Simeone, who once again trusted the same ones that defeated Slovan in the Champions League.
Cholo has always trusted Sorloth and, although sometimes he encounters matches like Lille or Sevilla in which it seems impossible for him to score no matter how many shots he shoots, the Norwegian returns his trust with goals. Molina saw it without needing to reach the area to take the center and Sorloth arrived preparing his head a while before to put Atlético ahead.
Simeone has already found a team he can trustwith some variations. Sometimes Gallagher comes in for Lino, but Le Normand, for example, no longer fits. The Spanish international suffered a blow to the head in the derby against Madrid and has played with head protection since he reappeared, but it is Lenglet’s good form that steals his place.
El Cholo is careful to say that everyone is important, but there are some who are more important than others. Although, to agree with the red and white coach, Sorloth’s goal came without Llorente, without Giuliano and without Griezmann on the field, three of the fundamental players for this good moment for the team. None of the three had to shine against Getafe, like the rest of the team, although little Simeone could have already scored with a header in the first half.
The cross had come to him, as almost always in those first 45 minutes, from the left, from the foot of Javi Galán. It was he and Lino, in one of those small partnerships that make teams grow, who were the most dangerous for David Soria’s goal.
Getafe, who already broke Atlético’s winning streak at home last year, were determined to also break the consecutive wins that Cholo’s team now enjoy. And, although they were content to resist in the first part of the game, with only one forward and five midfielders in front of the defense to make Atlético’s creation difficult.
It was Djené, a central defender by profession, one of the midfielders, to give more consistency to the defensive game, but Getafe got tired of waiting and went into action with the start of the second half. Álvaro Rodríguez was no longer alone, Uche accompanied him. And Oblak’s goal was suddenly closer.
And when Getafe seemed most involved in the game, Molina’s cross arrived and Sorloth finished off with a header.. And then the game seemed to be over. Although the Metropolitan feared a tie in a foul on the edge of the area that Milla threw over the crossbar and Correa was close to scoring the second by taking advantage of a mistake by Juan Iglesias when giving the ball to Soria from the center of the field. But Milla arrived in time to correct the play.
Atlético already had enough with Sorloth’s goal.