Atletico’s kick beat Celta

His shot wouldn’t have been a goal if Rodrigo de Paul hadn’t touched the spur in the 49th minute.Matheus Cunha’s crushing game wouldn’t have ended 4-1 even without an unfortunate refusal in the 82nd minute, but the story would have been very different if team Vigo had taken advantage of the defensive shipwreck that team rojiblanco started with. .

Three days after the change (Correa for Joao Félix) incited the highest anger against simeone The entire match against Porto, then still 0-0 on the scoreboard; Between the general rotation at eleven (more than revolution), because nothing has had more influence on the transformation of the line-up than emptying the minutes for the indisputable guys for the coach like Koke (he went into the second division), Marcos Llorente or right now. , Joao Félix) or the constant doubts that all is well at Atlético, rThe Argentine striker is out for sure.

The red-white ’10’ has something special, player who never gives upHowever, trying to dribble, overflow, shoot and attack without an opponent, always and in every way, with a turn from time to time, with a determination and skill that suddenly upsets the balance of the match, not even intuiting everything that suddenly happens to youwithout his own team at the desired level, without even dominating Celta on the field.

The staging of Atlético during this decade was unsuitable for a team that had reached such great heights, led desperately on the wing by Diego Simeone, yelling at their players to fix for every mismatchevery mistake, every pass, unlike his dueling players, where he gave Celta the opportunity to boil the Metropolitano.

The 52,247 spectators of the Rojiblanco stadium initially discovered that there was a goalkeeper at Atletico beyond Jan Oblak., was out of the game a week ago after a severe concussion against Real Sociedad when he forced against Porto on Wednesday and was unable to play against Celta this Saturday. In his presentation to the fans (two years after his arrival at the club, this was his first match at the Metropolitano), Grbic showed off the chiaroscuro. Salvador at first, without development work and blur of the last 3-1.

Previously, Mario Hermoso’s first bullshit, Captain of Atlético this Saturday (Neither Koke, neither Oblak, nor Savic, nor Giménez were on the field, these last three were due to injury but there were more senior players on the roster, Correa and Lemar), Croatian goalkeeper straightenedIt was magnified to include Larsen’s shot in a one-on-one match in the 2nd minute. The chaos was caused simply by a long ball.

This is how the Rojiblanco team appeared in the match with a meaningful apprehension that Celta forgave: apart from the aforementioned option of the Norwegian offensive player, it was released as a start with good moves, activity and football – and much less certain at auction. , went to centre, Grbic’s body, then a Hugo Mallo header and the feeling that the game is over without any arguments on the whole field.

But Atlético, still on that cliff, has a significant number of players, even in these Saturday rotations (six innovations against 2-1 Porto), who could suddenly score a goal, when Lemar changed the game, suddenly on the other side, Nahuel Molina picked him up and He touched him first, just as De Paul did a few meters away and As Correa did inside the field to land an undetected right hand for Marchesin. He has beaten Celta in four passes, the last three first, three of the three Argentine internationals and three on the right wing.

Atletico still had to recover from another Hermoso mistake, this time saved by Celta when the ball went to Kondogbia. So it was no longer Grbic, but the club that blocked the sky blue team and Iago Aspas, whose right foot was enormous. except for a few millimeters. The Galician striker left the Metropolitano goalless for the first time this League season, where he had scored in each of the previous four days.

because Moment by moment, Celta was disappearing from the statistics of situations, with no clarity in the last meters.Diluted with the passing of the minutes, lacking the essential raw material provided by every defensive failure of Atletico, no longer as abundant or visible as before, it was again found and found with Axel Witsel as an indisputable guarantee. in the second half abruptly 2-0.

The shot from the inside of the right foot proposed by De Paul didn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary, but the collaboration of Unai Núñez, who used the spur to deflect the shot, turned it into the goal Atletico needed to feel. safer in a sport where certainties are highly variable. Simeone celebrated this angrilyExploding with purpose, aware of the importance of winning, winning and winning above all in times like today, where pressure and demand are a daily routine.

Long before Celta, who also had two consecutive winning streaks on the Metropolitano, Atlético still finished third. At the 66th minute. Just seconds ago, at the start of the route to the opposite goal, still at home, to the left of Simeone Kondogbia, he celebrated the opening as if it were a goal. After Yannick Carrasco’s dribbling and shooting.

But whose game showed no more virtue than the offensive punch, which is the most distinctive factor in football, Atletico believed that the game was over in every sense, and that was all he implied when facing any Major League opponent. : Celta scored 3-1He pointed to Grbic’s post, but also to the defense, which opened a huge gap as Gabri Veiga went out to get out of control. It was the 72nd minute.

Antoine Griezmann had already entered that invariable stretch between 62 and 63, where he came out of the bench for every game, as Atletico and Barcelona came to an agreement and rojiblanco team felt like a winnerThe player who plays with threatening fire 3-2 from time to time, but first drew 3-1 and then won 4-1 in a great game where Cunha scored Nunez’s own goal. An indispensable victory in the current period and Atletico’s expectations.