Atlético Madrid will face the break with the same income, with the same mattress. On four points he has the Barça team, which overwhelmed Real Sociedad in Anoeta
Atlético de Madrid, whose doubts threaten and question their status as a leader in the decisive part of the season, he took a deep breath, a relief, just before the break in the competition to make way for the teams’ commitments.
The break will be good for Diego Pablo Simeone’s team. The stumbling blocks, uncertainty, and acceleration of his prosecutors have recently called into question the achievement of a title he looked authoritatively in the eye not many weeks ago.
A bad streak, diametrically different from the one he enjoyed in the first round and a European fall, have brought a certain pessimism to the Metropolitan, where Atlético de Madrid took a triumph this time, suffered against the Alaves(1-0) to keep distances and options intact.
Between Luis Suárez and Jan Oblak they relieved the red-and-white bloodletting. Together, they released a bad-looking, rushed engagement that pointed to a greater threat from Barcelona and Real Madrid, who are not failing. In fact, the Barcelona team is shocked while the white box is on it.
Atlético Madrid will face the break with the same income, with the same mattress. On four points he has the Barça team, which overwhelmed Real Sociedad (1-6) in Anoeta, and six against Real Madrid that insists and fulfills its obligations.
Simeone’s team is not the same as the first part of the course. But just as then, the resources of Luis Suárez and Jan Oblak were decisive in Alavés’ visit to the MetropolitanThe Uruguayan scored the goal that resulted in the victory. The Slovenian goalkeeper tied him up by stopping a penalty kick that would have been another setback five minutes before the end.
The 500th goal in the South American’s career, the nineteenth with the Atlético Madrid shirt and as final as his team in eight of the last twelve rojiblancos victories. Then came Oblak, a little thin at eleven meters lately. He stopped Joselu’s shot and avoided a concession with unimaginable consequences for the future of the match.
And it is that Barcelona is in orbit. With numbers in their last matches similar to those of the rojiblanco team in the first round. Ronald Koeman’s team has fifteen wins and three draws in the last eighteen league games.
He loved Messi’s game 768, who went on to become the player with the most games in Barcelona historyHe celebrated it with a double in the Barça exhibition in Anoeta, where he left Real Sociedad as proof.
After Marc Andre Ter Stegen saved his team at the start, Koeman’s set was overwhelming. Antoine Griezmann and Serginho Dest convicted of rest. The American side, braced by Messi and Dembele, graced the victory that frightened the leader (1-6). Barcelona does not hesitate, awaiting a minimal failure from Atlético to attack the top.