Atlético – Betis | LaLiga EA Sports: Atlético licks its wounds

ANDThe last change was significant: Savich instead of Mora, and then everyone gives him to me. This meant moving Witsel into midfield and Llorente into a forward line that already included Riquelme, yes, but in the end it was a central defender for a striker with minimal advantage on the scoreboard and a nervous crowd. Atlético, in any case, kept the result, living on the balcony of their ground and being grateful that before this substitution, even the previous two, Oblak showed his hand for old time’s sake, deflecting what should have been a goal into the post, a tie to the greatest glory Guido. The red and white team is licking its wounds, let’s see what the cure is.

The employees in the first part suspected that no matter how it ended, it would end badly. It’s worth clarifying: Rui Silva brought down Morata in the penalty area (or so it seemed to Soto Grado, since there was still minimal contact), but the technology was checking to see if the Atlético striker was offside. So it’s fear or death from a local point of view: either the game is deadlocked… or a missed penalty. It turned out that this time the opponent allowed good old Alvaro, and it also turned out that the Betis goalkeeper actually guessed his intention with the shot. And the one in mittens is not exactly an expert in such luck. The Metropolitan was tearing out his hair.

But Simeone acted as a prophet in the previous film, and let’s see who is the handsome man opposite the one in the black suit at this point in the film. It was time for forgiveness for the striker who, after a long time, with an interval at goal, caught the ball rejected by Rui Silva with his head and without resistance after De Paul had speared him. He didn’t dare celebrate before looking at the assistant’s flag, in fact he didn’t have it all until he was taken off center, but he did it again: starting from a legal position, that’s understandable. It’s not like you’re betting on your home goal to score, that’s a risky bet, and the other one is that El Cholo will score…

Everything that surrounds the red and white number 19 distracts from the rest of the first act, which Atlético played well and in which, in any case, they already had an advantage in a game that began with Bellerin losing the ball at the feet of Hermoso and ended with Bellerin trying to pull the same ball to prevent Hermoso from finishing it off. The pinnacle of Betis’ woes was that his side’s touch led to a strange carom that again went through Pezzella and Rui Silva before crossing the goal line. Regarding events, it should be noted that this first stretch still left a double from Memphis to greater glory for the goalkeeper and another from Rodri, finally “green and white news”, well covered by the solvent Paulista.

Simeone’s immobility is sometimes confusing. His team touched the border on Friday in a cup match, presumably with Pellegrini petting the Sevilla kitten, but after just over 64 hours he did not realize that it was necessary to refresh the eleven with Reinildo, Saul or Riquelme, the substitutes that day, stopping halfway with Paulista, Barrios or Memphis. The Chilean coach, for his part, sent Rodri into Fekir’s usual place, finding his team had a good spell that was completely cold, contrary to what one would expect in the afternoon, but yes, in accordance with the weather. It’s time to see if some can hold on, it’s time to see if others have reacted.

The engineer powerfully moved into the center of the field, Carvalho and Guido – onto the field. Well done, because after a quarter of an hour nothing much had happened, and just at the moment when El Cholo was preparing for a significant restructuring of his engine room, Coque and De Paul went to Saul and Nahuel to enter, Llorente moved forward, Barrios positioned himself on axis, an absurd loss left the ball in the boots of the first mentioned in the paragraph, who drew a wonderful parabola from outside the penalty area to bring his team into the game. The rest was melancholy in a local way. About Guido and Cloud. More about Savich later. In short, seams that were necessary even at the expense of Betis.