With hardly any football, against a Alavés who imposed a rough match, Atlético was touched from another field of a much lower team. In Leganés, Getafe, Las Palmas and Cornellà had already buried his possibilities to win this league. The draw for the Coudet team was a triumph in its intention to save itself. For Simeone’s team it was another sign that he needs more game to impose himself in those matches and those rivals that examine his skill as a dominating team. It was Atlético, like the duel in general, a disturbed group and with little precision to attack. There he has a must Simeone. Atlético needs to get out of the lane that all those rivals in the low zone have marked him that have been unraveled from the fight for the title. It has not been enough to accept the type of matches that have proposed and try to make profitable one or two occasions. A champion team must generate more football and occasions.
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Antonio Sivera, Nahuel Tenaglia, Santiago Mouriño, Manu Sánchez, Facundo Garcés, Carles Aleñá (Tomás Conechny, Min. 89), Ander Guevara (Joan Jordán, Min. 71), Jon Guridi (Carlos Benavídez, Min. 71), Antonio Blanco, Carlos Vicente and Kike García
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Jan Oblak, Clément Lenglet, Marcos Llorente, Javi Galán, Robin Le Normand, Conor Gallagher (Nahuel Molina, Min. 71), Giulian Sørloth, min.
Referee Juan Martínez Munuera
Yellow cards
Ander Guevara (min. 28), Azpilicueta (min. 40), Julián Álvarez (min. 41), Santiago Mouriño (min. 55), Antonio Blanco (min. 62)
“Vitoria is prepared for war,” said the mosaic of Mendizorroza animation. And the first act was that, more war than football. The two teams engendered a locked match, in which the error in the passes and tactical faults resulted in a tostón. The Alavés shortcarded De Paul and Barrios with Guevara and Antonio Blanco and Atlético did not know how to respond. Not even Griezmann’s return gave the rojiblancos. The Frenchman was off the center of the field to try to organize the chaos with the ball that was his team. His downturn also accompanies that of most of his companions, deactivated after the crucial section of the course in which they said goodbye to all the titles.
The rojiblancos were wrapped in an awkward duel that did not find solutions either inside or outside. They did not perceive either Llorente or Galán and less Giulian and Gallagher. The Alavés, immersed in the fight for not descending, better coupled with that guerrilla war that broke out in each divided ball. The two sets accepted the hard leg and the piles in little space. The result was a grain from the football. There is no game without fluidity, without two linked passes. Julián Alvarez’s inactivity was significant in the midst of that moor in which neither team was able to combine the verb play. Mouriño and Garcés did not grant anything to the Argentine or Griezmann. The statistics of the first 45 minutes recorded zero shots at the door of both sets. Actually there was only one auction, a header diverted from the guerrilla Kike García, who was best that trench match. Atlético the clash could be worse than what was already when the referee showed him the red card Julián Alvarez in his attempt to hit the ball while Garcés. The VAR called Martínez Munuera and this rectified reducing the action of the Argentine tip to yellow card.
With that scare, Atlético went to rest, from which the ball with the ball came just as nefarious. An ideal breeding ground for Simeone to start a change carousel with Giuliano and Griezmann as first indicated. Sorloth and Lino were the first patches to try to straighten a team that took more than an hour to look at the Sivera area with some danger. A linen driving and a combination between De Paul and Julián Alvarez ended with a satin center that Sorloth could not push on a empty door because he was intercepted. Lino, with a distant and centered shot, premiered Sivera’s gloves.
Alavés replied to that first Atletico threat with an occasion that Kike García found in a noise in the area. The Navarre tank toe Oblak took it with a prodigious hand. Paul, Gallagher and Barrios were the following to go to the bench. He did not leave Simeone in the field to any of the midfielders who started the game. An unquestionable signal of the bad encounter executed by Atlético. Lenglet could save him by putting the inside of his left boot in a belt center. Sivera flew to put the mituation into a full action of agility and reflexes. The Atlético had no more occasions, who had a stellar oblak again to repel a Zambombazo of Kike García. He reigned in that war in which football was the only defeated.
