Atltico 1 – Real Madrid 1
The return of Trippier and Carrasco restored offensive freshness to the team, while Surez broke his streak of five games without scoring.
Diego Pablo Simeone lacked five minutes to celebrate what would have been his 309th victory. It is not just any figure, because he would have left behind Luis Aragons and he would have become the rojiblanco coach with the most victories in the club’s history. In any case, sooner or later, maybe even on Wednesday (at home against Athletic, at 7:00 p.m.), that victory will come. What will still take a few months is Wanda’s first victory in a derby or the end of a five-year streak without beating Real Madrid in the league. Thorns that Luis Surez’s goal started during a good part of the match. Benzema’s goal was a disappointment.
The point, however, does not change the spirit, sustained by the classic match by match. The League is still as alive as yesterday, something that the Argentine coach has always emphasized, no matter how much he has tried to sell that the championships are won in November. “I have a lot of important things left at this point in the championship, taking into account the team’s game, the finesse that it has sustained until the end, with absolute dedication on the part of everyone and in a difficult, complicated tournament. Many thought that We were going to win it by 20 or 15 points, I don’t know what they imagined, and we are playing against teams that are very powerful, such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Sevilla … “, Simeone reviews.
The conclusions, were it not for that Benzema goal, they weren’t bad either. Starting by Luis Surez, who scribbled his 17th goal in the league by sharpening the outside of his boot and sharpening his waist. He had not seen the door for five games and from the Uruguayan’s streaks, as he has shown throughout the season, Atltico always comes out well.
Curiously (or not so much), in his awakening annotator had a lot to do Marcos Llorente placeholder image, with his fourth assistance to the charra. And in Llorente’s offensive desmelene, the return of Kieran trippier into the right lane, two months after his last adventure. The Englishman did not notice the competitive inactivity (he has been able to train) and made sense, like Carrasco, to the system with which Simeone has made the team fly. The fact is that Marcos ended up distributing his eighth assist in the League and became a permanent nuisance for the white rearguard. Joao flix, which counted on half an hour, went unnoticed.
Koke’s lament
“We have been superior. In the second half, if we had been a little more successful in the face of goal, we would have taken the game. We know the level of Madrid and in any situation they score you as it was almost at the end of the game,” he lamented Koke, hyperactive in the middle in front of Kroos, Modric and Casemiro, and who shot towards the camera with which Hernndez Hernndez decided that Felipe’s hand was not synonymous with a penalty.
“They told me about Ramos’ hand in Eibar … There are hands in almost every game. It is very difficult for the referees to have the right criterion in intention or not, it is up, down, on the floor, in the air. .. The VAR has generated more forcefulness in what we used to raise the flag, it was a penalty or not … Now not, if it is a penalty it is a penalty, if it is offside it is offside. It has improved a lot in many fields ” , said Simeone, whom technology had smiled at just a week ago, in Villarreal, but had turned his back on him other times, as in the defeat at home against Levante.
The Atltico defense once again conceded a goal, which has only left the goalkeeper to zero in one of their last 10 games (nine in the league). I went back to pick up a ball Oblak for the 17th time. To regain his defensive strength, lost with the start of the year, many of the options to opt for the title pass. The first step is to do it on Wednesday against Athletic, in that pending match with which the rojiblancos can feel safe again.
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