Sorloth frowned when he saw the 9 on the scoreboard.. I didn’t feel like leaving the field. There are not many occasions that he has to be a starter and the two goals he had scored seemed few to him.
Perhaps they also seemed few to Simeone. At least Oviedo’s approach to Oblak’s area must have seemed worrying. Because Atlético once again added suffering to an apparently comfortable match.
Because the Norwegian’s two goals had made it comfortable. Of the triangle they formed on the left Nico González, Baena and Hancko Atlético’s best things came out, which Sorloth always finished off.
Simeone has found in Hancko a copy of what Mario Hermoso was in the last Atleti League champion. A central defender and a winger in attack who joins in, reaches the area and scores goals. A perfect player for Cholo’s system that changes during the game. It starts with four defenders in theory, which are always five because one of the wide midfielders helps – against Oviedo it was Nico González – and sometimes there are six when Giuliano joins on the other side.
Atlético had to defend too much for what the match promised. Before half an hour the red-and-white team already led 2-0. Everything was perfect after the tribute that the club had paid to its two captains before the game: Oblak, for his sixth Zamorawhich he offered to the fans; to Koke, for playing more than 700 games with the red and white shirt. received a infinite applause of his fans the Atlético “6”, which was only interrupted because the game had to start at some point.
That was before the Sorloth festival arrived, finishing off what was coming to the area. The Norwegian pays for his fame and his appearance: the idea that the football community has that he scores more goals when he comes off the bench and that height that makes him look like the typical log waiting for the ball to reach the area to put it in the goal.
None of the things are entirely true. The days are not strange, especially at the Metropolitano, when he scores goals two by two or three by three when he enters from the beginning. It is also not unusual to see him take advantage of the spaces for the counterattack, as he did last year in Montjuïc against Barcelona.
The goals came when Atlético pressed and there could have been more if they had not been in front Aaron Escandellthe goalkeeper who saves the most in the League, who prevented Sorloth from taking the ball home. But Simeone’s team once again showed that tendency to back down when they have an advantage on the scoreboard. Oviedo, led by Cazorla, who continues to give away football with 40 birthdays, realized that it was possible to hurt Atlético and lost respect for them.
It wasn’t enough. Oblak left the field again without stains on his goal. And Julián, who entered for Sorloth, once again showed signs that he is not at his best. The Norwegian has the consolation of being chosen the best of the match.