Next weekend, Atlético could be out of the positions that give access to the Champions League. It will be enough for Athletic to attack the Metropolitano, something that has already happened this year, after the red and white team (pistachio green for the occasion) gets within striking distance of the Cup champion, maintaining its free fall to greater glory in Mendizorroza. of an Alavés that breathes a sigh of relief. And in this case Simeone wins but El Cholo loses, because it turns out that opposite Diego Pablo was his son Giuliano, on loan from the Metropolitano and one of the surprises of the local eleven. He raises crows and they will gouge out your eyes, the saying goes. The tunnel that the boy threw at Nahuel is a wonderful metaphor for the season.
Gorosabel took Lino ahead in the first action of the match. Guridi immediately earned the first card by stepping on Koke from behind. Javi López repeated his luck before ten minutes by slapping Correa. Atlético went through there and took the hits, because Alavés was not up for jokes. Luis García had moved half the lineup, dissatisfied with how he was with his team in recent days, and the first consequence of such movements was a determination that was sometimes misunderstood, but which in any case took the opponent ahead.
The one who seemed sullen all afternoon, still thinking about what could have been and wasn’t. To make matters worse for the visitors, after the field became a minefield for a quarter of an hour, without football being able to make an appearance, a long throw-in by Sivera led to a succession of defensive blunders that can be summarized as That for the Vitorian squad were all the second plays until Benavidez ran into the ball in front, with no one deigning to bother him, so he was able to place it screwed next to a post. The first, in the front.
Atlético’s reaction was to immediately concede another for the second. Savic went for grapes and was fortunate that Giuliano’s free shot went wide. Big problems have big remedies, the Montenegrin centre-back would think, as he took his opponent by the next time they fought for the ball. There Gil Manzano did not have the trigger as easy as before. Almost everything happened again, in any case, on the right wing of the Madrid defense, the one in which Nahuel, defended by his coach in the previous one, plays in an even surprising way, after a performance, that of his compatriot, absolutely negligent. in Dortmund.
Alavés had handled themselves with such ease until then that the first visitor appearances were more noise than nuts, shots from Lino, De Paul and Giménez that ran into the goal, the defense and their own incompetence, respectively, but the one who took home again The scare before the break was Atlético: that monument to dignity that is Kike García fought a high ball with Azpilicueta… so that the one with the whistle declared a penalty for a handball from the Navarrese. The tech guy confirmed that yes, his colleague was right about the upper extremity, but he also pointed out that that was where it had come from the defender’s head. Overall, what a maximum penalty to limbo. Totally, what modern football. The least of evil, El Cholo would think.
Whose decision to revolutionize the game was to include Saúl, which taking into account the youth player’s state of form says a lot about the configuration of the squad. Marked by that substitution was De Paul, another such. In reality, the Argentine had presented his resignation to which he confirmed that Alavés was reluctant. The second act once again opened with a card for the local team, for Benavidez in this case, and with little to say in the areas no matter how much Giuliano continued to insist. On the other side, no one was interested.
We had to wait until the 77th minute for Atlético to build a play worthy of the name. Saúl (precisely), Correa and Nahuel combined, but Lino’s shot hit Sivera. Shortly after, it was confirmed via a backheel that Griezmann had indeed traveled, but Correa’s shot also hit Sivera. And until there. Diego Pablo even brought in a substitute from the reserve team, in another of those decisions that deserves an explanation, and Mendizorroza’s party was complete when in extra time Luis Rioja smashed the ball with a wonderful volley in the service of Carlos Vicente. Simeone had devoured Simeone. Atlético is ready for soups.
2024-04-21 18:34:24
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