Atlético’s cursed week could not end otherwise. After falling in penalties against Real Madrid in the most surreal way possible today fate hit him again in the most cruel imaginable way: In the last minute, with two -drawing, A shot by Sorloth bounced in Cubarsí and went out; seconds later, OTRed Lamine Yamal auction hit Reinildo and ended up inside the goal. The team of Simeonethat He won 2-0 in the 72nd minute, It ended up falling 2-4, a result that leaves him out of the fight for the league and that opens the door to enter the ghosts of the recent past again. While, Barcelona is hand in hand with Real Madrid in the fight for a championship that looks like it will be decided in the Camp Nou in the clash between them.
Giulian It was the first to step on the area, but wanted to solve with a shot that was not precisely satisfied Simeone, aware that his son had better options. Also frowned Hansi Flick Seeing how Lamine Yamal, totally alone in the area, he finished off the First big occasion Night, with Oblak Already beaten and the whole stadium containing breathing because 0-1 was seen coming. First Saved Match Ball.
Far from collapse because of Lamine’s error, Barça raised her head and made Atlético clear to what had been submitting to a gigantic rondo from which it cost him horrors to go out to the team, which spent a first quarter of a tormented hour. Julian had to pull the car again to re -match a party that lived its first controversial action on the edge of the 20th minute when Iñigo Martínez grabbly grabbed Llorente in the areabut so much By Burgos Bengoechea In the field as Iglesias Villanueva In the VAR they decided that It was best to look the other way.
Even more shameless was the Basque referee just as they pass through the first half hour when Koundé took Giuliano with two swipes from Enmedio They left him lying on the ground. It would have been the Second yellow card to the French and consequently the expulsion, but to leave Barça with ten players as soon is a red line that apparently nobody wants to cross. Simeone, resigned, looked down helplessly.
Saved twice by the decisions of referee and var, Barcelona stepped on the area with danger to the limit of rest in a Lewandowski shot that kissed the crossbar. It seemed only a failed occasion, but the consequences went much further because in the door serve Reinildo combed Oblak’s long pass allowing Griezmann run to space with enough time to serve Giuliano in the area, which gave Julián a magnificent ball that the spider improved with A very difficult but lethal auction. The 1-0 on the edge of rest. The scenario that had drawn the Cholo In your dreams.
Lamine was again, as in the first part, the protagonist of the first occasion of the second act. He was missing the international aimthat did not succeed with the goal. Closer was Julian in a corner kick that ended in the crossbar in the first domestic warning after the resumption, with Barça again in dominator and, of course, once again benefited by By Burgos Bengoetxea, who forgave Koundé for the second timethat nailed the tacos in the knee to Reinildo in a jump to the ball right in the same beards of the arbitration assistant.
As the Simeone game time decided that the time had come to contribute to the team fresh legs. SOrloth and Gallagher replaced linen and, surprise, Julián Álvarez, In one more commitment to muscle than because of talent because it is evident that the Norwegian completely lacks the conditions of imbalance of the Argentine. Of course Griezmann immediately gave a step back.
No one understood Julian’s relay, but The events gave the Cholo right, which seems to have the power to see the future. Gallagher went out to space overcoming the off -game line that had planted Barça in midfield and He gave the goal in tray to Sorlothof course he did not forgive.
The 2-0 went crazy to the stadium and to his misfortune also to Atlético, who for an instant lost the concentration, a mortal sin if in front is a rival of so much level. No one went on pressure from Iñigo Martínez and The center of the Basque defender It transformed it into a work of art Lewandowskiwho came forward to Lenglet To solve with a satin shot with the left leg.
The Polish goal had devastating effects on the game for Atlético, which fell into a black hole that Barcelona took fruit with The draw, Ferran’s work After a side center of Raphinha. In just six minutes the score overturned 2-0 to 2-2 and left everything open for a final stretch that fell from the Barca side with Lamine and Ferran’s goals, The latter already in the prolage of the shock, with those of Simeone launched in zafarrancho to the tie. In just four days, Atlético has been out of two competitions while Barça consolidates its favoritism in both. Anyway it will not be the last time they are. The next April 2 are summoned in this same stadium in the return of the Cup semifinals.
