Atlético crashed in Moscow against Guilherme and the sticks

Atlético crashed into Guilherme, the Lokomotiv goalkeeper, whose great performance prevented a victory for the rojiblanco team in Moscow. Atlético deserved it, who attacked and attacked, had chances in the first and second half, but could only score thanks to an early goal from Giménez. The point is good, but the Cholo players will regret not having been more precise at the time of the auction.

Atlético put up a very offensive eleven. Simeone brought together Luis Suárez, João Félix, Correa and Marcos Llorente, plus Sául and Herrera at the core of the team. A lot of talent for a game in which Atlético came out from the start for the win. The rojiblanco team is gradually showing another profile, with very technically gifted footballers who try to play good football. When one senses that the game is going to be played almost entirely in the opposite field, the best thing is to take out players who can unbalance based on quality. It may or may not be accomplished, but intentions count.

The first half belonged to Atlético, who found the handicap of the penalty against by Herrera. It was the only mole on a team that was far superior to its rival. He scored a goal through Giménez and was able to go to rest with a little more. Luis Suárez tried to move up and associate with the players who came from the second row, either João Félix, Correa or Llorente. It is a pleasure to see the Portuguese try again and again to do something different, to make walls in the front of the area to penetrate before defenses as crowded as Lokomotiv's. Atlético put the Russian team in their area, although they had not resolved. Oblak did not have to intervene beyond the penalty play.

After the break the tone did not change. Koke entered, getting better and more intoned, for Saúl, who returned after missing three league games and the two in the Champions League. Atlético continued to insist. On the left with Lodi and João Félix; on the right, with Trippier and Correa. Always with the Portuguese player as head of offensive operations.

João Félix invented a magic play, with three cuts, for Luis Suárez to finish off in a difficult position and stop the Lokomotiv goalkeeper; a shot was taken that slipped through the squad and that Guilherme took a corner; and a header that the rival goalkeeper again sent for a corner kick. Even Koke hit the crossbar with a subsequent shot at a goal by Suárez annulled for offside. It seems that once and for all Atlético's boring games are over, those afternoons or nights where hardly anything happened. Now the players enjoy playing, they are seen to be loose when it comes to playing, offering themselves, associating …

The red-and-white avalanche over the area of ​​the Russian team took a break, which Lokomotiv took advantage of to try to scare Oblak. But Atlético returned to the charge in the final stretch of the same. It had the inconvenience of the injury of Vitolo, who had entered as a refreshment. The canary has no luck, who regretted the new mishap he has suffered.

Lokomotiv locked themselves in, held out as best the rojiblancos arreones could, aware that between their goalkeeper and Atlético's lack of efficiency, they took a point that they did not deserve.