The end of the season is taking too long for
Atlético de Madrid
. It is not a question of a party itself, it is a question of trends. A trend that should concern the rojiblanco team and its fans. While those of the rivals for the title of The league It is on the rise, the mattress team barely resists the fall. Each game is a birth. What do I say, each game is an exercise that dwarfs the effort to unravel the Ever given of the Sue's Canal
z.
Between his own nerves, his loss of confidence and play – very far from that Athletic of the first part of the campaign that he believed in himself and seemed unstoppable-, and the thousand vicissitudes that have happened to him in recent months (sanctions, injuries, many cases of Covid…), the Athletic has gradually bled out. Of that two-figure advantage over his pursuers, there are hardly any crumbs left with nine finishes ahead. Points that have been falling like the sand of the clock, exhausting the dream.
What the rojiblanco team was doing in this course was almost epic but it does not look like the forces are going to give it to reach the shore. In matches like that of Sánchez Pizjuán -and unfortunately in other less demanding- the team of the Cholo always lives on the wire, too much at the mercy of a stroke of luck, a stoppage of Oblak, one that hunts Suarez, a ride of Llorente. And of course, it doesn't always happen. Especially in the offensive. For the Uruguayan or the Madrilenian to get oil, it is necessary to approach the rival area on a regular basis …
The Athletic fell for a goal that should not have risen to the scoreboard in any case, which originated after a recovery with the hand of the Seville. No excuses for a Gil Manzano. like crazy about the music, which undermined the rojiblancos play by play, card by card and passed the subject on the key move. All this is true, but it is also true that the mattress team was very far from making sporting merits to win the game.
A CRAZY START
The match started at 160 km per hour. A suicidal act of Philip which could cost him a red one for a pitiful entry on Ocampos, a penalty of Saul by stomping De Jong, a miraculous stop of Jan
Oblak in that maximum penalty …
It seems that Athletic and Seville they missed the football of League and they started the game with a rhythm that was difficult to follow. With a very pressing and vertical Seville painting that put the Athletic in your defense zone. Just a shot of Lemar from afar in the first 15 minutes, he confirmed that the Lopetegui he intimidated the colchoneros in the opening bars.
The Athletic, very far from the personality and control that should be assumed in a leader of The league to hit the table in one of those fields where titles are won. A fearful mattress team, sheltered, failed in its pressure. Those of Simeone they were chasing shadows, something all too common in recent times, when they tried to steal the ball from their rivals, fluid and accurate in circulation.
In the first half hour, the ball was monopolized by the Andalusians, Ocampos put to the test Oblak in a shot from outside the area. Koke responded with a flat shot that Bond caught without problems.
Simeone He detected that his team was too at the mercy of his rival, tied up, without clear ideas on offense. And after half an hour I put strap by I gave it. It is not that the Brazilian was worse than the rest, but the game demanded a change of drawing, something that would move a situation that looked bad for the mattresses. The Brazilian put his hand to his groin in the change, something that could also give clues regarding this decision. The solution was to place Saul from side, to Lemar in the middle line and to strap accompanying Suarez.
The first half closed, with no change of course for the rojiblancos, with a couple of more occasions by the locals, one of them after a disastrous delivery of Philip who mounted a rival counterattack 25 meters from his goal. Some are still looking for the outstanding center-back who at the beginning of the previous season amazed everyone. The stoppage for the issue of Coronavirus He ended many things, also with that version of the Brazilian.
THE GIL MANZANO SHOW
The second half started with a Athletic more willful but also wanting to continue accumulating problems. A dialectic hooked between Suarez and Acuna it was worth the collegiate Gil Manzano to teach yellow to both, when perhaps you would have just gone to teach the second to Diego Carlos, which was what had originated the matter, which will make the Uruguayan miss the next game. Even more difficult for the rojiblancos.
The mattress team settled more in these last 45 minutes. With a Lemar that managed to unravel the tangle of the middle of the field and there the Athletic looked a little more at the goal of Bond. Shots from the front of Llorente and Koke…
And when he was better, the goal of the Seville. A play that began with a recovery that came after a hand of Ocampos, which ended with a pass from Suso to the hole so that Navas put the ball at the far post, where Acuna nodded. The Athletic claimed in vain Gil Manzano despite the clamorous action.
From there to the end, the Athletic He tried it in every way. Without success, without luck, without a Lemar replaced that he was being the only one with clairvoyance for the mattresses.
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