The Metropolitano fans celebrated their team's passes in the final minutes with “olés”. It was not be for lowerly. Atlético couldn't beat Real Madrid last season. In fact, he had only defeated him once in the last 12 official matches. The joy was justified. The players even took a lap of honor around the grass. “I am very happy for all these people. The atmosphere has been incredible. We have all been together and both we and they (the fans) have put everything into it,” said Álvaro Morata about the party.
Morata, trained in the white youth team, had never scored a double against Madrid and celebrated the two goals with great passion. The forward could only think that today “the children will be proud with their Atlético shirt.”
At Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti was concerned about his team's defensive work. “The problem has been defensive fragility,” analyzed the Italian coach. The whites conceded the same goals in 90 minutes as in the first five matchdays.
Ancelotti criticized Madrid's start to the field, which soon found itself 2-0 down. “We haven't started well and we haven't defended well,” he insisted. And in his opinion, “the three goals were a copy. “We were not well positioned in the area.”
The victory of the colchoneros had a point of vindication. “We also know how to play football,” Morata recalled, as Atlético reengaged in the fight. For his part, Griezmann, the other scorer, wanted to make people forget the 3-0 defeat at Mestalla. “We have shown that what happened in Valencia was an accident. We were looking forward to it,” said the Frenchman.
For Simeone, the talk with his players at half-time was key. “With 2-0 the team retreated too much and we let them play where they are strongest. At halftime we talked that if we continued like this we had a good chance of losing the game. That's why we came out more aggressive.” And so Morata made it 3-1.
Morata is in his fourth season as a rojiblanco and something he has pending with the colchonero club is to win a title. “I need to feel important and I am now,” he highlighted about his good moment. “I really want to win a trophy with Atlético,” he said, regarding the objectives of this course.
The last match, when Bellingham received a yellow card for an ugly kick on Correa, was still hot. Cholo even publicly asked for the Englishman's expulsion. “Bellingham seemed like an expulsion to me. It is a tough tackle and he comes head-on against Correa,” he explained.
