MADRID, 6 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla drew a 1-1 draw this Saturday in their friendly on the LaLiga Summer Tour held at the Oracle Park Stadium in San Francisco (United States), an entertaining duel with good chances for both.
The two teams arrived after playing against Real Sociedad (0-0) and Betis (1-0), respectively, in two somewhat gray matches played in Mexico, but on this occasion they offered a better show that could have left a better score. bulky. But only Ángel Correa and Rafa Mir were successful for their teams despite the good chances, more so for Diego Pablo Simeone’s men.
These were the ones who started the game the best and could have opened the scoring very soon, but they ran into a great Marko Dimitrovic. The Sevilla goalkeeper performed a sensational double intervention on Rodrigo Riquelme and Memphis Depay, and later the defense blocked Antoine Griezmann’s final shot that went into the net.
Little by little, Sevilla took the pulse of the match and managed to replicate the good start of its rival. José Luis Mendilibar’s team had good minutes with arrivals in the box by Jan Oblak, although the Slovenian only had to really intervene after a powerful shot from Suso.
However, in the final stretch of the first 45 minutes, Atlético de Madrid once again enjoyed two good chances to open the scoring, especially one by Koke Resurrección who wasted a good individual move by Memphis and sent it over the crossbar with all in favor Earlier, Dimitrovic once again showed his quality after a shot from Yannick Carrasco.
In the second half, the intensity dropped somewhat and the opportunities were not so clear except in the final stages, much more open. Sevilla was the one that struck first with Rafa Mir, winning a ball from a not very forceful Stefan Savic and then defining well in one-on-one with Oblak.
The mattress team, despite the changes, went for the tie and although they were able to receive the sentence from Sevilla in a counterattack. Samu Lino and Álvaro Morata each gave warnings against Yassine Bono and, finally, it was Ángel Correa who equalized in the 84th minute.
Sevilla dominated the rest of the game and could have scored 1-2. First, he threatened a shot from newcomer Djibril Sow and then Oblak countered Dimitrovic with a great save from point blank range against Rafa Mir. The last one was from Idrissi, but the winger was not successful when he was in a good position. With this duel the tests of both ends before the start of the season in LaLiga EA Sports, in which Atlético will face Granada on Monday 14 and Sevilla against Valencia on Friday 11.