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Atlético de Madrid
He showed in a single match the ideal potentiality of himself, but at the same time the everlasting ailment that haunts him. It marked soon, very soon, and that supposes an insurmountable temptation for the mattresses to take a step back, which usually costs dearly. The weakest match of the mattresses, since the return. He CelticFor his part, he grew and recovered from the first hard setback to tie a game that he could win. A tie that is not worth any to deliver a final blow to their respective targets, but that at least adds up.
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He hadn't given the two teams time or to sit on the makeshift benches of Balaídoswhen the Atlético de Madrid was already ahead on the scoreboard. The mattress team has long defended that it has realized that, with the potential it has and the right attitude, it can quickly solve many games. But it is one thing to want and another quite different, power.
And that the Athletic He came out in a waterspout and on the first play he was right. Arias, who is in a very interesting moment – even better than Trippier at times-, sneaked on the right wing. The Colombian found belt, who moves in small spaces as he did in the pasture, with the ease of someone who has been making a living since childhood. The Argentine found Morata on the same goal line for the Madrid player to push, third goal in two games and there are already 16 goals this year.
Those of Simeone had placed the first notes of the melody and it was clear that the music was going to be played as Athletic likes. The mattress box was sheltered and sought to catch the counter. Almost succeeded ten minutes later. Again a center from the right, a ball that crossed the area until reaching Savic at the penalty spot. The Montenegrin fired high.
The box from Vigo, pressured by the situation – flirts with the descent – leapt upwards. A couple of centers with a certain sense of danger, but above all a shot from Brais Méndez in 17 ', he played in Gimenez and the ball brushed the square.
As the minutes progressed, Celta felt more comfortable with the ball. He Athletic defended in 30 meters, with the lines very close. He Celtic He had known how to deactivate the mattress pressure and the rest of the first half lived in a situation that always worries, with the mattress table very late, the Apa Fort ApacheSo common. Brais it was putting in trouble Oblak at 40 minutes with a shot from the peak of the area that was leaving relatively close.
The rojiblancos were diminishing in their danger, with a great exception. A boarding school of Llorente on the edge of the break that ended with a low center to the area that walked through the penalty spot without belt neither Morata they could put the 0-2.
HIT BACK
The second part started exactly like the first, but with the opposite sign. Celta tied with a somewhat picturesque goal. A center of Brais to the area that Beltran He finished off in a very strange way in a kind of semifallo, with the outside of the foot, volley … and the ball described a devilish Vaseline that was going to the square.
The Galician painting came out very plugged in, seeing himself with options to turn it around. Then, Brais, the most active of the Celtic, shooting from inside the area, with danger a shot that Oblak was not able to tackle. Very clear occasion. Óscar García Junyent read that his team was there to win and put Rafinha and Santi Mina.
Own Mine I tried it shortly after being in the field, with almost no angle. Again Oblak, who had a busy night. The right band of Athletic, with a I gave it Very warm, it was the main red-white water route. Cholo saw it wrong and took the Brazilian out of the field, Thomas already Llorente, less important than on other occasions. They entered M
anu Sánchez, Herrera and Vitolo. A little later Lemar by belt.
Nothing that changed the final panorama of a match in which both ended up considering the result, beyond a good shot from Lemar from the peak of the area, where Villar, who had replaced the injured Ruben Blancohe responded well.
CELTA DE VIGO 1-1 ATLÉTICO DE MADRID
Celta de Vigo: Rubén (Iván Villar, 81 ’); Hugo Mallo, Aidoo, Murillo, Jorge Sáenz, Olaza; Yokuslu, Fran Beltrán, Brais Méndez (Rafinha, 58 ’); Iago Aspas (Brdaric, 90 ’) and Smolov (Santi Mina, 58’).
Atlético de Madrid: Oblak; Arias, Savic, Giménez, Renan Lodi (Manu Sánchez, 67 ’); Koke, Thomas (Herrera, 67 ’), Marcos Llorente (Vitolo, 67’), Saúl; Morata (Saponjic, 87 ’) and Correa (Lemar, 72’).
Goals: 0-1, Morata (Min.1); 1-1, Fran Beltrán (Min.48)
Referee: Sánchez Martínez (C. Murciano). He admonished Brais (Min.21), Lodi (Min.22), Nolito (Min.34), Jorge Sanz (Min.46), Murillo (Min.50), Giménez (Min.78), Herrera (Min.93 )
Incidents: Match played in Balaídos, without public.