Araujo threw out the last one, agonizing, Barça outnumbered but rushing their options, and The eight minutes of extension, which were eight years in red and white key, gave way to an explosion from the Metropolitano that, there are no concerts worth it, must have been measured in too many decibels. Because Atlético is in the Champions League semi-finals, again, capable of standing where no one would stand and always under the command of the same guy. April 14 was a great day to proclaim the red-and-white republic.
Atlético de Madrid 1-2 FC Barcelona Champions League Summary
Football sometimes has an overwhelming logic. Lenglet was supposed to be Atlético’s weakest link, in fact he played because there was no other in that position, up to three center backs were out.and it was unanimously admitted that Lamine was Barça’s great danger, in fact he had already tested Musso practically on the first play. Adding one and the other, with the staff still not breaking a sweat, the local defender gave away an absurd ball so that Ferran enabled Yamal and he shouted from the rooftops with his goal that there was a tie.
Atlético immediately became a nervous wreck, with Koke barely trying to keep his people from breaking down. Tactically, in addition, the red and white team was doing two unusual things, that is, advancing the defensive line, that is, not putting pressure on the rival who handled the ball. And if the first one can still have a pass, the church has doctors, the second one with Pedri there became directly a suicide. The canary floated wherever he wanted and the fact is that he was not the only one, for that Flick had created a lineup of guys capable of moving wherever necessary.unable to sit still.
Musso slipped and Olmo was about to overtake, which in any case would fall under its own weight, in fact the Barça number 20 was also at the origin of that second goal that left the quarters as they were before the Camp Nou, once Ferran crossed the ball before the astonished gaze of the red and white defense. With Atlético making a mess, Lenglet still made another gift, immediately after, so that Lamine facilitated Fermín’s header with the outside and for the Argentine goalkeeper to avoid the third with an incredible action.
The visitor’s head and the local’s leg ended up hitting each other, to the detriment of the first, in one of those incidents that the Spanish League would resolve with eternal debates, but that the Champions League settles without breaking a sweat, the fact is that the minutes of medical attention came in handy in Atlético’s key. It was shortly after the restart, in fact, when Griezmann clarified a play for Llorente to score from behind. for that gang that was already a drain in Copa, with a different guard, and so that its service would meet the lethal arrival on the other side of Lookman.
The 1-2 had been the exception that confirmed the rule, because Barça immediately recovered a monopoly on the ball that allowed it to live in three quarters waiting to find a hole, for example that of Ferran to meet again one-on-one with Musso, coming out losing this time, while on the other side of the area a penalty was claimed against Olmo. Atlético, as things were, was already doing well by retiring to the dressing room even with an advantage on aggregatewithout there being a single person in the Metropolitan, things as they are, willing to risk their assets for the red and white luck.
The second act began in a similar way, but the bad news began to accumulate for Barça in the form of a light rain. First, there was offside in what had been Barça’s third goal, Ferran again to take advantage of the fact that, this time, Lenglet had rejected a first shot from Gavi in a play that would have deserved another determination from the defense until the Frenchman appeared. Second, the relationship continues, that the appearance of Baena and Nico will suit his team much better than that of Lewandowski and Rashford to his.
But there was even more, as the minutes passed. Gavi took Ruggeri ahead in a jump, causing on the one hand another prolonged arrest, on the other that from then on the Italian was a hurricane, perhaps freed from the excess blood. Cholo’s painting was getting better and better, Flick’s painting was getting less and less, until Sorloth as a refresher faced the goal and Eric’s knockdown resulted in an expulsion once it was confirmed that there was no offside no matter how hard the flag player tried.. The rest was exasperating in both senses, because it was not over, because it was about to end, until Turpin proclaimed Atlético a semi-finalist. Ready to proclaim…
