Atlético forgives, pays for it, but saves the furniture

It is difficult to explain the Metropolitan’s duel between Atlético and Villarreal. Like football itself. And it is that the rojiblanco team deserved a solid advantage in the first half, but went without a prize at rest. Then he was below on the scoreboard with a goal from Trigueros, he reacted through Luis Suárez – who at least still has a goal left over – but facilitated the 1-2 in an error by Giménez and Hermoso alimón. It seemed definitive, however there was another rude failure of understanding, this time between Mandi and Rulli, which caused the first’s own goal for the final equalizer with which the champion saved the furniture.

Atlético dominated insistently in the first minutes, with Villarreal armed in his own area in the face of the constant rojiblanco push derived from tireless pressure. Correa, the man who monopolized the mattress goal at the beginning of the League, carried the weight of a continuous offense, but the one who had the clearest was Lemar. The Frenchman started from the center of the field like a bullet, unloaded to the right for Trippier and attacked with determination the shot from the Englishman, although he ran into Rulli’s save and the stick when the goal was called in the Metropolitano.

Only one action by Gerard Moreno in the red-and-white area, although poorly resolved by the Catalan striker, allowed Villarreal to breathe a little, moving the focus of the game to a position far from their area. It was before the duel entered a rough phase, especially with a very hard tackle by Correa on Albiol, in which clashes and protests about the showy game predominated.

However, before the break Atlético had them again, and quite clear. Simeone’s team caught the defense of the ‘yellow submarine’ off guard after a steal of the ball. Lemar touched her head, Correa took her before Rulli’s departure and left her behind for the arrival of Carrasco, who surpassed the Argentine goalkeeper but ran into a tangle of opposing legs on the same goal line. Already on the hour, again Lemar, hyperactive, crossed from the left side and Trippier finished with a header. The Englishman’s head was a goal but he ran into Mandi’s body, providential to deflect the ball.

It seemed a matter of time before Atlético found a reward for its total dominance, but once again the one who forgives pays it. Villarreal stretched out on the counterattack through the overflow of Yéremi, which put it towards the front of the area, where Trigueros unleashed a great shoe to inaugurate the list of yellow goals this season and put the ‘submarine’ ahead, although by no means deserved according to the overall match.

Misunderstandings

Luis Suárez, until now filming in the league start, activated his killer gene as a result of the complex situation and showed why Simeone opted for his inclusion in the eleven as soon as he could. Correa put it from the right and the Uruguayan did not hesitate: a dry finish and for the inside. The first target on your private account this course.

While Simeone had to do without Carrasco and especially the scorer Suárez because of the gasoline issue, Unai Emery, as a fine analyst, detected that his big problem was in the left lane of his team, so he changed it completely, with the entrance from Pedraza and Danjuma. The Dutchman of Nigerian origin, who already wearing the Bruges shirt and in the Champions League left his mark on the Metropolitan with a goal, took advantage of the lack of understanding between Giménez and Hermoso and Yéremi’s pass to define poise, which has merit against Oblak.

The game script seemed written. This is how even the athletic fan understood it, frowning in the stands, but there was another rude mistake left at the last moment. Rulli went for a ball unnecessarily and Mandi, who did not listen to his goalkeeper, gave it behind his head. There was nothing to do, the ball entered the yellow door meekly allowing the champion to save a point in a strange match.