A bit of Alexander Sorloth, in the 96th minute, gave victory to a lucky Atletico de Madrid, the new leader of LaLiga, who was dominated at all times by Barcelona (1-2), but paid dearly for his mistakes against Jan Oblak and gave up his third consecutive defeat at home, something that had not happened since the 1965-66 season.
The Bara dominated the game and had the best chances in front of a conservative Madrid team, who played to tie with 0-0, who was able to fit a couple of goals with 1-0, but who was saved by Oblak and in the end found himself a bit in the discount time.
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Football was not fair to the Azulgrana, who forgave too much and rewarded the aim of the athletes who had never won in Barcelona with Simeone and added up to their twelfth consecutive victory.
And that Bara signed a good game. Flick’s team, such as against Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, or Borussia Dortmund, went well, which showed that it feels good when the blood smells, when it feels the spotlights on the face, and when in front it has first-class teams.
And before Atletico de Madrid, he demonstrated it again. He put Flick on Fermin on the left, Gavi to pack the spinner, and Raphinha on the right.
The slogan was to open the field, to widen the game for the bands, something he had failed in the last few games. In front of Atletico, a team that arrived the most in the form of the championship, it was a small outing, leaving all creative responsibility to the locals.
And with that advantage, Bara didn’t waste it. Under the baton of an excellent Pedri, the Azulgrana dominated the situation and overwhelmed the mattresses.
Raphinha’s hyperactivity on the right, the pressure ahead, and the search for side centers for Lewandowski did not give the game truce and the approaches to Oblak’s goal came.
In the 5th minute, Raphinha had the first for his team, in an action Gallagher took out in the small area. The game unfolded on the Atletico attack field he was unable to get the ball played from behind.
In 21, the Azulgrana claimed a penalty by Giuliano, and in the next action, Oblak had to show off in a close finish of Inigo Martinez.
The Bara was comfortable. He was recovering closer and closer to the small area. Gavi, on the 25th, finished outside and on the 30th, Pedri reappeared.
It was in combination with Gavi that he finished in the net after Crusader to 1-0. Flick’s bite the jugular of the capitalists who, except for some sporadic action by Griezmann between the lines, were unable to generate.
In fact, his first long possession came in the 41st minute and by then possession was 70-30 for the locals in a first half dominated by the Barcelonists without discussion.
As soon as the second half began, in a Gimenez mistake, Pedri gave Fermin the 2-0, but the ball was far behind the Andalusian, and Oblak was very successful in avoiding the Bara in 48.
He again made another gift Pedri, in 57, this time to Raphinha, but his vaseline was given in the crossbar on another great occasion for the Bara.
But the topic that if you forgive in football, you end up paying it proved in the 1-1. In a ride by Julián Álvarez and a back pass, Casado cleared him and became a perfect assist for De Paul who screws matched the game at game time.
But Bara re-believed and resumed the thread of the match against Atletico who took refuge closer and closer to Oblak and set up a five-point defense.
It wasn’t the same. Dani Olmo’s entry gave more air to the local spindle and Raphinha reappeared with two practically consecutive actions that surrounded the athletic goal, but the goal did not arrive for the locals.
Even Inaki Pena, unpublished practically until then, had to appear to save his team in 77 after a one-on-one with Barrios, in the second approach of Simeone’s.
In the final ten minutes of the game, Bara gave everything and had very clear chances to decant the scales, but he always met Oblak.
Olmo, in 81, finished too crossed Raphinha did not hit the mattress goal in 86th or Pedri in 88 on three big occasions. Football, which is big and miserable in the same proportion at times, proved it in the last sigh when Raphinha erred a pass, Atletico set up one against and Sorloth executed Bara in 96.
The Azulgrana ended the year in the worst way with five points added in the last seven games and after squandering a clear advantage at the head of the championship, a League that now dominates Atletico.
