Athletic 0-Lokomotiv 0 | Atlético does not find the goal against Lokomotiv and is frustrated

Atlético complicates the move to the next round of the Champions League. It went from more to less in the meeting, he did not materialize his chances and Lokomotiv left the Wanda Metropolitano with the little point they were looking for. Atlético lacked spark in a second half where he was not comfortable. The rojiblancos will have to fight for their pass in the two remaining games.

The Cholo did not walk with contemplations when facing the meeting, because the eleven was the same one that played against Barcelona, ​​except Lodi, who entered for Hermoso. And the pattern of the crash was identical to that of a few weeks ago in Moscow. Lokomotiv locked themselves in their area from the first minute waiting for some miraculous action in attack. Atlético could have left the game resolved in twelve minutes, with the chances of João Félix and Marcos Llorente, twice. Guilherme had already become the best of the Russian team almost shortly after the start of the clash. The goal seemed a matter of time, although it did not come. The rojiblancos opened the game on the right, where Trippier and Llorente entered, and on the left, with Lodi and Carrasco. They tried to penetrate through the center using walls, but the Lokomotiv defenders ultimately managed to ward off the danger.

Atlético played, their players liked each other, but the ball did not enter. It is true that in the last minutes of the first half the red-and-white pressure was no longer the same and Lokomotiv stretched a bit. But Oblak was one more spectator. Maybe the Madrid team did miss a pure center forward. Out of combat Luis Súarez and Diego Costa, the lateral centers were looking for João Félix, who by millimeters did not reach the center on some occasion. But The Portuguese is not an area striker and moves better when he has a striker who sets the rival defense. Lokomotiv did not approach Oblak, but came to rest alive to the game. That is, something similar to the match played on Russian soil.

The rojiblanco rival pressed higher after the break. He did not worry, but he did dare to leave his field and shoot a couple of times at goal. Unlike the first period, the clash entered an anodyne phase, with a bland game, without speed, without spark … A match that suited Lokomotiv, and without stress, without feeling that each Atlético attack could end in a goal. In those minutes the Russian team seemed cooler than Simeone's team.

At game time, Cholo decided to change its dynamics. Llorente left, angry after the substitution, and Lodi. The Brazilian is not the same as last season, he does not convey the feelings of a few months ago. At this point in the season, Hermoso is on top. Atlético had half an hour ahead to score, to give the clash a different rhythm and to put their rival back in their field.

Koke scored in his centennial match with Atlético in Europe, but the VAR canceled the goal for offside. It would have been nice for the captain to celebrate a goal in such a special match for him. Lemar was the one who took command of the operations and Atlético tried it through Carrasco, changing in the final stretch to give entry to Camello, the forward of the subsidiary. The Russian team knew how to suffer, endure, grit their teeth back and Atlético was not a trace of the one from the first half hour of the meeting, although they bottled the Lokomoti againv. Giménez had it in a corner kick but the ball went out touching the post. Atlético did not take advantage of their chances when they dominated and ended up regretting it.