Atlético had to wait for Julián Álvarez to enter to make his party that was nobody. He had reserved Simeone to his departure scorer. You need rest in this ethical of response -free matches and Sorloth He deserved a chance. The Norwegian did not find, playing from the beginning, the goal that seems so easy to reach when he enters from the bench, and Simeone looked for the safe resource, send Julian to the countryside. Seven minutes the Argentine took to score the goal that defined the game. He entered the field in 59 and in 66 he had already achieved 1-0. Llorente warned his career and put the ball to accommodate it in the area before overcoming Unai Simon.
It cost Atlético get there. He had not managed to become an owner of the game and for many minutes, especially in the first half, the Athletic was initiative. The pressure of the Valverde team made Atlético cost to play. Although the same thing really happened to the two teams. Oblak and Unai Simon looked at the game from the distance, although Athletic recovered the ball closer to the rival area and the feeling of danger was greater.
Atlético had not worked for the idea of attacking on the leftwhere Javi Galán and Samu Lino joined, too imprecise. It was Giuliano who pulled the team when it seemed more demanded. With his pressure, his speed and his desire, he took the team forward. And he also served as a social animator, as his father usually does, claiming the support of the stands.
Giuliano del Campo had already left when he marked Atlético. It had been one of the first substituted. But everything was not done for Atlético, who resorted to the usual caution by replacing Pablo Barrios with Giménez. One more defense does not guarantee a safer goal, as Cholo has learned in his career.
I was already in the Uruguayan field when Athletic hit twice The Oblak sticksIn the same play. First Vivian finished off a corner to the post and then Iñaki Williams, who had collected the rejection, finished off the bottom of the crossbar. Athletic had been thrown up looking for the goal with more intention than before, but with the same success.
Iñaki Williams repeated auction to the crossbar on another later play. Atlético felt the threat of Athletic and Mayor of the Williams. The little one, Nico, had not managed to unbalance for his band to Molina. In some moments of the game the positions were changed, but the goal continued without arriving.
Atlético, with the rival overturned and the fresh speed and legs of Julián and Correa, looked for the second to decide the game. He was close Álvarez in a free kick to the edge of the area, but Unai Simón, prepared to answer when it had to do ithe cleared the corner.
The stadium was on, despite the rain and the cold, for the defeat of Real Madrid and for the proximity of the victory of his team. When the referee whistled the end, not only the public, also the players on the grass, they celebrated it as a big victory. It is. Great, in addition to suffering, because it manages to overcome Real Madrid and moves Athletic, the rival that came from behind.
But all that, without Julián Álvarez, would be more complicated.