Pablo Barrios scores the most comprehensive goal for Atletico so far this season

The young youth team of Atlético de Madrid, Pablo Barrios, has been stamped into the mattresses first team. The midfielder, who stood out last season in Fernando Torres’ Juvenil A, warned this year about his quality in the rojiblanco daughter, so much so that Diego Pablo Simone decided to make his debut in Cadiz. Since then, his figure has not stopped growing and in Oviedo he was in charge of completing a great collective game of his team.

Atlético was not having a good time. The 83rd minute ran, they won 0-1 and although the Oviedistas failed to create clear chances, Cholo’s men had lost control of the game. At that point, the Madrid team began to combine in the center of the field, moving up and in a final stretch of the tiralinés game, the touches of grezmann Y regularswitched on Beltwho placed Barrios in front of him with a subtle left Tomeu. The shot from Madrid, under the goalkeeper’s legs, almost a pass into the net, gave his team peace, 0-2 and mission accomplished. Atlético was already in the eighth finals.

The piece had a crumb and, according to data from the Twitter account of ‘AtleticoStats’, in the longest, to have ended in a goal so far this year. So far Atleti had come closest to something like last night from goal carrasco against Leverkusen after eleven touches and the goal the Belgian scored against Celta after a game of nine touches. The one in Oviedo was therefore the most brilliant collective action of Simeone’s men, in a course not lost in joy for the rojiblanca parish.

The correct name of the evening was therefore that of Pablo Barrios. Not only was the youth team player responsible for the pinnacle of the game’s best play, but he also contributed to what is required of a good midfielder in difficult moments of a match. His first play was a pass behind the Oviedo defense that Nauel Molina He couldn’t take advantage of it, but it revealed some of the qualities that adorn the boy.

Neighborhoods, at the age of 19, has fallen on his feet in Rojiblanca’s first team, partly because he has things that Atlético lacks. He wants the ball, he is brave and has that quality of good midfielders, who is always well sketched. In addition, it is not difficult for him to take risks and tries to beat lines when he can without abusing the safety pass.

Against Arenteiro, also in the cup, he has already shown that he can hit well from a long distance and last night he proved that he knows how to arrive. He still has a lot to learn and it is to be expected that Simeone will go easy before giving him stripes, but Barrios looks like one of those players who made it to the first team to stay and make his career with the rojiblanca. He is one of the most striking outbursts from a mattress youth team since that already distant debut of a certain Fernand Torres.