Atlético draws its Champions spirit to survive the chaos against Betis

The Real Betis and the Atletico Madrid They met this Sunday at the Benito Villamarín in a direct duel for the Champions League. A match that brought together almost all the arts of football. Game, goals, chances, injuries, controversies, order, disorder… and in that chaos the Athletic he knew how to resist, reinvent himself and bring out that spirit that made him champion a year ago. The great match of those of Simeone, who overcame the many adversities that he suffered to get three points that can be worth the goal set because he takes a direct rival out of the positions Champions.

The Athletic confirms with this victory that this conspiracy after the blow against Levante, from which that ‘mini League’ of 14 games as a goal came, gave birth to a new rojiblanco team, without the problems or the mental weakness that weighed them down in the previous months. And the Betisafter the effort of Cup a few days ago, he raised a battle and in sections he was better than the rojiblanco team, to show that he is one of the great teams of the season.

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The Athletic hit first. Fast, very fast. Soon very soon. In the first minute, a long ball prolonged by Vrsaljko behind the Betic defense, Correa went into the area, put the low ball on the penalty spot where joao felix I just had to push the ball. Two goals and one assist for the Portuguese in the last three games, confirming Simeone’s commitment to him in this stage of the competition.

Pellegrini was forced to move the bench ten minutes after the injury of Savedentered Christian Tello. It was not the only injury, because eight minutes later, Vrsaljko, who hurt his knee after landing badly on a divided ball; and shortly after Correawho injured his foot in a ball fight with Ruibal in which the Betis player kicked him. The game started with a lot of things. Like a clear hand Sabaly in the area that the referee Stable Fernandez and the WHERE they ignored. It is true that it was a fortuitous action but it was also true that it prevented joao felix could better control the ball in the area. Write down this play because in a few days we will see what a penalty is for another referee. And so all year.

So many things were happening that the game got really muddy, everything was weird. Like the very clear chances that both teams missed shortly after. A speed out of the Athleticwith a through pass to Carrasco and two more companions at his sides. Three colchoneros against Bravo, the Belgian left it to Joao to push it but he put it wrong, which allowed Sabaly save his team when the score was 0-2.

And immediately afterwards, a great internship by Tello in the area ended with a pass to the heart of the small area that Gimenez he served as best he could, the ball hit Paul and he left high, centimeters from the goal. Of every 100 rebounds like that, 99 would have been inside.

That occasion was the knock for the locals, who began to corner more and more to the Athleticgenerating chances, a very clear header from Bartra, some medium distance shot. If the mattress team had reacted in recent games it had been precisely to minimize those errors that had punished them in the first part of the season. And that was precisely how the tie of the Betisa mistake when trying to get the ball by a Herrera who had been very reliable in this section of the course, ended in a shot by Tello from outside the area that meant the 1-1.

What was a controlled game for those of Simeone, had become a mud, a street runner, a disorder in which he ended up succumbing.

THE SPIRIT OF THE ATHLETIC

The second act began with a change in the Athleticthat of Lemar for a discreet Lodi, a change that would be key; and with a Betis in the same offensive line of the last minutes of the first half. A hand in hand from Tello with two shots that he repelled clouda corner kick by Joaquín that almost slipped directly into the goal of the Athletic… Pellegrini’s team was playing at the top of the wave that had drowned the mattress makers.

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The rojiblanco team survived with some counterattack attempts and set pieces. Like the one he had at 55 minutes, with a header, coming out of a corner, from Felipe, which crashed into the stick. The rejection reached Gimenezwho nodded at the hands of Bravo. The tendency of the party seemed local, but at that moment the spirit that the cholos in this part of the season. Felipe recovered a ball in a dangerous counterattack Betis, Llorente prevented him from going out on the wing and undertook a quick and deep unchecking that From Paul I saw accurately. The man from Madrid planted himself in the area, gaining power and speed over his defenders and placed it at the second post, where Joao Félix pushed it for 1-2.

Again, a party within the party. The Athletic He overcame everything and continued to create chances. Joaoagain, stood before a Bravo that this time he did get the ball. Something that the Chilean could not achieve in a last game of De Paul, Griezmann and Lemarin which the of Macon he sneaked into the area, put it behind, where his compatriot arrived to shoot.

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