It doesn’t seem like a coincidence that it was just after Griezmann’s change when Celta scored. Simeone got into a rush at the moment when, with the score still tied, it is true, his team was drawing drinkable minutes, so football made him pay. What is even cruel is that the error in the origin of the play was Koke’s, another 90 minutes for the captain, always worthythe fact is that Swedberg put it inside and Borja stung it in a delicious way to fuel Celta’s hopes for that sweet fifth place.
Goal by Borja Iglesias (0-1) in Atlético 0-1 CeltaSportian
And everything happens through the happy Champions League. The week, for example, had taken Atlético out of the present and into the future. But the second is already taken for granted, and it had also arrived indirectly, so the first had much more weight in an atmosphere that tended toward melancholy. and to which a unpleasant day also contributed. Returning to the top continental competition, Rayo had on Thursday half-opened a door through which Celta decided to sneak in on Saturday. Without doing too much, but with a shot from Iglesias who goes to mass.
The red and white start was drinkable, and gave rise to Griezmann being on the verge of scoring involuntarily, to a penalty from Javi Rodríguez (hand on the ground) and to Lookman running into the squad, but the impression was that there the game was played by inertia, one dominating, the other letting himself be dominated, neither of them particularly concerned. It was then that Giménez fell physically, this time after an ugly clash with Borja. The return of the Uruguayan had lasted 20 minutesabsent in the great battles that the calendar had brought. Le Normand to the grass and something else.
Celta tried to amass the ball, which in any case would barely come close to Oblak’s domain in that first act, if perhaps one from Borja that went wide but also deserved a raised flag. Cholo exchanged the positions of Llorente, in the center, and Baena, on the right, which in the continuous learning process that good Álex has undergone this campaign translated into him being fifth in the defensive phase at times.. The occasional opportunity or another continued to fall, Grizi’s shot and Sorloth’s header each more innocently, but the pace was already absolutely tiring.
In reality it had not been played well or badly, quite the opposite. In the absence of other emotions, yes, the intermission left a marriage request on the grass. Indeed, dear friends, dear friends: there are still people who get married. The first after the restart was from Moriba, but Immediately one came from the other side in which everything was well done: Koke’s long serve, Baena’s short touch, Sorloth’s backheel… and Radu’s save. Atlético’s number 10 was there for a while playfully, also assisting Lookman so that the Nigerian could stay in the mold.
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Then Simeone decided to get involved and what happened happened, also because, beyond removing Griezmann and Lookman from the field and granting the umpteenth opportunity to an inane Almada, he would still do without Baena precisely to be left without movements with more than 20 minutes left. One of those who had appeared, the youth player Cubo, had the last two premises, among other things because he procured them for himself.while Celta (and the referee, by the way) worked hard for it to end as soon as possible. And it ended. It was an afternoon for red-and-white melancholy, not blue homesickness.