In a crazy game, the Atlético de Madrid of Diego Simeone was eliminated from the Champions League in the quarterfinal series that was defined in Germany and against Borussia Dortmund, who will face Paris Saint-Germain in the semifinal on the road to the Orejona.
Con Rodrigo DePaul y Nahuel Molina as holders and with Angel Correa Entering from the bench in the complement, the team led by Cholo could not sustain the 2 to 1 victory achieved in the first leg last week in Spain and fell 4 to 2 in a movie night, with a thousand turns in the plot of the meeting. The consolation prize for Atleti was that, after the elimination of Barcelona, they qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup.
The Signal Iduna Park witnessed an epic duel for the great goals, for the changing result and for the well-deserved final prize for the German team that was able to celebrate with the more than 80 thousand supporters present in the stands.
The premises established the conditions of the procedure from the outset. He chose the left side to do damage. And he did it. Molina’s back was an invitation for the German attack. He warned with a clear chance that César Azpilicueta blocked him with a timely closing shot. Marcel Sabitzer. Atlético responded immediately with an unbeatable counterattack: Alvaro Morata He ran more than 25 meters and was one-on-one with Gregor Kobel, but he threw the ball outside.
Dortmund did not forgive in the next two. Mats Hummels got a great assist for Julian Brandt, who defined crossed with the complicity of Jan Oblak. The second came from a play from a side, also on the left wing. Ian Maatsen was now the one who took a whip at the stick side.
The Spanish team was suffering and seemed without reaction outside the Cup. Simeone needed to reorganize his boys to get a response. He did it at halftime. He went out to the second stage with three changes. One of those who entered was Correa. The former San Lorenzo gave another air to the Madrid attack. At the touch he lost a heads-up. Atlético had recovered the ball and was in charge trying to score and force penalties. He got it from a corner kick, when Hummels tried to intercept a header without obvious danger and scored the goal against his goal.
The visitors regained their momentum and went for more. With the help of Angelito Correa he was encouraged to twist the home owner’s arm and in a play with many rebounds he ended up tying and once again turning the overall result around. Cholo jumped on the bench and hugged his assistant Nelson Vivas. But football gives surprises.
Dortmund, far from sinking its head and becoming depressed, understood that it had to return to the path it had strayed from, the one it knew how to travel in the first half. Edin Terzic, the local Croatian coach, made changes and recovered his face. In a period of 3 minutes he scored two more goals to take the lead again: a header from Niclas Füllkrug and a shot from Sabitzer.
A bucket of ice water for Atlético de Madrid who couldn’t get up anymore. In fact, he could have lost by a bigger difference if it weren’t for Oblak blocking a couple of fireballs at the end.
A great disappointment for Simeone’s men because the classification escaped them in an item that in other times would not have passed: their defensive fragility.
2024-04-16 22:36:00
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