Luis Suárez and Diego Costa, goals from an old dog

The old dog is more dog for old.

And at that stage is Luis Súarez, seven league goals scored under a physical condition that amplifies his instinct.

Anticipation, finesse and placement.

The Uruguayan scored two goals, both full of robbery cunning.

One on the brink of halftime, the other at the start of the restart.

The first, getting ahead of his marker and with the right caress that he needed to impress the ball;

the second, appearing treacherous at the far post to push a low center by Carrasco without Sánchez Miño noticing in time.

In the same survival phase that Suárez is Diego Costa, reappeared after the alarm that unleashed the venous thrombus in his right leg that was left by covid-19.

The striker scratched a very dubious penalty for slight, a kick received in his hand in a body with Marcone.

He himself executed it to close a match that had been complicated by Lucas Boyé's goal, with just over twenty minutes to play.

Simeone pointed to dance of drawings according to the rival.

He parked the defense of three centrals.

So far, he seems to lean into his more classic Lodi scheme when he considers his team to have overt superiority over the rival.

And in that return to 4-4-2, as in the derby, Saúl was not there, with the connotation that he was not playing against his hometown team.

Instead of the steering wheel, Lemar, who continues to oppose rehabilitated.

Llorente accompanying Koke in the center, who was the third center-back in the ball exit.

A whole declaration of intentions in which at times the lack of automatisms already established with the 5-3-2 was noticed.

One of them was re-established when Llorente appeared further to the right and teamed up with Trippier.

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Atlético Oblak, Mario Hermoso, Savic, Renan Augusto, Trippier, Carrasco (Saúl, min. 65), Marcos Llorente, Koke (Felipe Monteiro, min. 86), Lemar (Correa, min. 65), João Félix (Diego Costa, min. . 72) and Luis Suárez (Kondogbia, min. 73) ElcheEdgar, Gonzalo Verdú, Josema, Barragán, John Donald, Marcone, José Raúl Gutiérrez (Nino, min. 80), Josan (Emiliano Rigoni, min. 45), Fidel, Tete Morente and Lucas Boyé

Goals1-0 min.

40: Luis Suarez.

2-0 min.

57: Luis Suarez.

2-1 min.

63: Lucas Boyé.

3-1 min.

79: Diego Costa.

Referee Xavier Estrada Fernández Yellow cards Gonzalo Verdú (min. 13), Mario Hermoso (min. 39) and Marcone (min. 78)

Against the red-and-white transformation, Elche defended themselves with a battery of six defenders without a ball and with it when they had it.

He hit very few long balls and played sleepy safety passing sequences.

Always sought in superiority.

A very Argentine rhythm when they are interested in playing that.

That speed fitted initially with the intrinsic interruptions to the VAR, by correctly canceling a penalty from rookie John Donald to Luis Suárez for offside, and others such as failures in the technological equipment of the referees that, two years after it was launched the invention should not be given.

The slow circulations were choral until reaching the center of the field.

Elche gave the feeling of being only half a team.

A set of 50 or 60 meters that to find salvation will need to connect more with Tete's power and bring Lucas Boyé's good movements closer to the area, as he did in the second half.

Without being very demanding, Savic and Hermoso also contributed with their anticipations to the little progression of the rival.

In those, something happened when the ball went through João Félix and Lemar.

There is a point to be exploited in the possible connections between the Portuguese and the French, which when they were found destabilized.

The two looked for Luis Suárez.

Before the two goals, the Uruguayan shot several unchecks in which he also oozes the times to roam the goal.

The one with the well annulled penalty was discovered by the Portuguese.

When the game won in continuity, Llorente disturbed Edgar Badía with a hard and focused shot in a novel strategy play on the edge that destroyed the goal as best he could with his foot because he was covered.

At nothing that Atlético accelerated a play to break the slow pace of the game, Suárez's first pike arrived with his caress measured to the ball.

With a fast driving from Lemar and a good low center from Trippier that first goal was armed.

With the score against, Almirón extended his team in the second act with Sánchez Miño as left back and Rigoni to look for more links.

Suárez's second notch seemed to render the visitors' chip movements useless.

But in a corner Lucas Boyé hunted headlong an extension at the near post and was off again.

Simeone operated to preserve the advantage, putting in Saúl and Kondogbia, and tried to increase it with Diego Costa, who did so by fighting a ball in the area and scratching that dubious penalty.

Simeone pampers the scorer he longed for

Diego Pablo Simeone's management of Luis Suárez has to do exclusively with the goal. Since the time of Falcao and the first Diego Costa, he longed to have a proven scorer. Now that he has it, he puts it, although his physique may invite the opposite. “We understand footballers, they all have a personal treatment, the character of each one is different. It's like children, I have five, and you handle them differently with each one. With Luis I did not say anything strange, he came from a 20-day process without being able to participate and last week he played three games ”, explained Cholo about the Pichichi of the tournament with seven goals. “I was very happy about the second goal especially. He is waiting until the last moment to avoid being offside and they find him after a good action by Carrasco ”, added the rojiblanco coach, who justified the change of João Félix due to the blow he received in the side in the first half. “I was not there and Suárez was not scoring; I'll come back and put two in, go bastard, "joked Diego Costa, before proclaiming that this Atlético leader" has everything to fight among the greats. "