Atlético says goodbye to the World Cup with more complaints than goals. He managed to turn the game in a match that was born crooked, but He was unable to succeed with the goal until the last minutes, when Griezmann sent a Julian pass to the network Álvarez from the left. There were four minutes left and Atlético needed two more goals to reach the round of 16. Too much. The rojiblancos They say goodbye to this new tournament with the same atony they have shown in the season. Before Griezmann had scored three goals in three games, but the three goals in the same. It seemed impossible for two more to arrive in just four minutes plus the addition.
Atlético had wasted several times before getting there. Himself Griezmann sent out a shot after an exceptional strap play For the right wing. The Argentine went easily from Cuiabano, the side that had replaced Alex Telles to protect the defense more. Correa and Griezmann, who had entered the second half, managed to shake the game until they gave the victory to their team. That could be the last great Correa play for Atlético. Angelito said goodbye to the Metropolitan and his future is far from the rojiblancos.
Griezmann and he looked for him, but they could not achieve the ultimate goal, to take their team to the next point of the road.
The path of Atlético, however, ends herein the first phase, weighed by an unfortunate debut against the PSG. Those four goals received before the European champion are those that have left him out of the round of 16 despite having won the following three games.
Atlético leaves with a feeling of injustice. He claimed two possible penalties to Julián Álvarez, who were not, although with the VAR you never know. In one of them a previous lack of Sorloth was invented so as not to point out the point of eleven meters. Neither Sorloth nor Julián Álvarez have managed to score in the tournament and has had to resort to Oblak more than advisable. The Slovenian stopped a perfect counterattack of Botafogo that finished Savarino in the first half. At that time, at the beginning of the party, it seemed that the duel belonged to the Brazilians, but Atlético managed to invest the trend with the passage of the minutes.
It happened to him as in the tournament. It has been improving with the passage of the games and against Botafogo ended up putting the Brazilians in their area In search of the goals that had been denied for almost an hour and a half. They did not arrive anymore and before Oblak had to appear again, which stopped a great auction of Igor Jesus.
It was the only great occasion of the Brazilian striker, one of the most shining in South American football, although for a short time. His present is at Nottingham Forest.
Simeone did not want his team to turn from the beginning in search of those goals he needed. He wanted to protect the center of the field with the entrance of Gallagher, a work and wear footballer, but little brilliant with the ball on his feet. And, although he rectified in the second half, it was not enough.
Atlético says goodbye early, but we must not look for those responsible. Just as the championship began on track, he had to wait almost half an hour to start taking danger to John’s goal.
He even got the rojiblanco team to control Botafogo’s counterattacks, very dangerous when he recovers and goes out to the race. Only Savarino and Igor Jesus They approached. Oblak, who had to stop, ended up intervening the fair. But the result is the same that announced the first match against the PSG. It was difficult to imagine Atlético winning the following two games. But that has not been enough. Six points with the French and Botafogo, but you have to say goodbye.