Five consecutive victories, three of them with a clean sheet, reflect the dynamic that accompanies the Atletico Madrid that passes through this stretch of LaLiga at cruising speed to settle at the top of the table, in the middle of the Champions League.
The rojiblanco team has parked the doubts of yesteryear. The team has recovered the identity of Diego Pablo Simeon who has completed a dream week with the two league wins against Cádiz and this recent in Vallecas in front of him Lightning (0-1) next to Tuesday with the Manchester United that keeps you in Europe.
He has rescued his essence Athletic who was served by the goal of Koke Resurrection at the start of the second half to knock down the Vallecano Rayregain third place while waiting for the visit of the Barcelona al Bernabeu and seriously threaten the second place of the Sevillaquoted on Sunday with the Real society.
Before him Lightningas it happened in front of the Manchester United, capitalized on his advantage. The formula that led him to be champion a season ago is the one that has revitalized Simeone’s team, firm, seamless and with the pace of the game at its whim as soon as it takes advantage on the scoreboard. This was the case against a feisty and resourceless rival who has not yet won so far in 2022 and who is getting closer day by day to the relegation places.
In the decisive stretch of the season the Athletic find your best version. Striding as far as the days take him and with the minimum objective close to meeting.
THE REST OF THE DAY
The Valencia keep faith in Europe. victory in Elche (0-1) has active the set of Jose Bordalás who has found stability after sealing his qualification for the Copa del Rey final.
The Valencian team chains its fourth match without losing. Three wins and a draw sum up the recent journey of the Valencia sustained by the vein of successes of the Portuguese Goncalo Guedes.
The main offensive argument of the campus of Bordalás It is the Portuguese who already scores almost unintentionally. That was how he took the ball to the net of the Elche at the beginning of the second part. The striker has scored four goals in the last six games he has participated with Valencia. The player from Benavente who already has eleven so far in the course.
He ranks ninth Valencia although with a distance of seven still with respect to the Real society, the team that marks the European border. “There are nine games left and we are going to do everything possible to reach Europeeven though we know it’s difficult,” said Guedes.
The Elche He does not finish distancing himself from the threat of relegation. He is still comfortable on a cushion of eight points but in the last four games he has conceded three losses. He must wait for the block Francisco to find relief and tie down a salvation approaching the Granadawalk away for the Alaves and vanishes for him Levante.
Granada was resurrected with a golden victory in mendizorroza. It was a direct shock due to relegation. Key. From which the Andalusian team came out stronger in a crazy match, of alternatives and resolved at the last minute.
Everything thick happened after the break. The visitors took advantage, the locals turned the situation around and ended with victory in hand for the Nasrid team (2-3).
After a great goal by Sergio Escudero that came from behind in seven minutes by the Argentine Gonzalo Escalante and Manu Vallejo, Antonio Puertas equalized with a header to equalize a contest full of tension that closed with the third goal, by the Colombian Luis Suárez. , three from the end.
They had ten games without winning, with seven defeats in them, the Andalusian team that with the success in Vitoria breathe leave the decline to four points. The same ones that separate the team from José Luis beggar of the permanence that marks the Mallorca.
“The culprit is on the bench. From the bench I have not been able to stop that. Neither in the center of the field nor in defense”, he said. beggarwho took responsibility for the second loss in a row Alaves.
A MISSED OPPORTUNITY
A missed opportunity for the box Vitoria and also for the Levanteclearly surpassed by the Osasuna (3-1). The possibilities for the Italian squad are exhausted Alessio Liscicolista and resigned to his situation.
was outclassed in Pamplona against an opponent who recovered his essence after relaxing in the Camp Nou, who settled in the middle of the classification and who faces the remaining nine days without emergencies. estranged from Europe but also from the red zone of the table. Fourteen points distance him from the penultimate place of the Cádiz.
The goal of the Argentine Chimy Avila on the brink of rest ruined the Levante that was undone at match time, when in four minutes he conceded the Croatian’s goals Ante Budimir and from Serbian Darko Drasanac.
Roger Marti shortened distances a quarter of an hour from closing but the Valencian team did not give it any more. “We will continue working and fighting because there are still points left. Several times we have been left for dead and the team has always tried again. We will do it until the last day,” he said. Smooth after the match.
Seven points separate the Levante of a salvation that vanishes on each date.
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