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Lisbon is not for Atlético

2020-08-13T21:54:59.079Z


The daring and revolutionary Leipzig eliminates Simeone's team, who can only respond with João Félix. The Germans will meet PSG in the semifinals


The breath of fresh air represented by Julian Nagelsmann and his Leipzig took Atlético ahead, which only had the capacity to respond to the revolutionary and modernist game of the Germans when João Félix took action. Before, Simeone's team was tactically, physically and technically outperformed by the great revelation of the tournament. Lisbon is definitely not for Atlético. There he lost the 2014 final, and there he fell again, this time in the quarterfinals. When the rojiblanco team seemed that they could channel the pass to the semifinals, they conceded a goal in the final minutes, when the rebound of the ball in Giménez incapacitated Oblak. The misfortune was a hard blow for the mattresses and at the same time the vindication of a football and a beautiful team to see. A blessing if the future and the evolution of the game goes in that direction. The Germans will meet PSG in the semi-finals.

Atlético had to stand up to a team that, above its tactical swaps, has an unmistakable hallmark. All his players are trained by Nagelsmann to feel useful with the ball. Leipzig have streaks that link them to the Ajax revolution and Holland in '74. The same Halstenberg was projected as a side who escorted the daring Upamecano to get the ball. In the insulting coldness to start the game of the young French central, that dance of passes began that was prolonged with Kampl and Sabitzer and linked with Nkunku and Olmo. If Upamecano was imperial at the start of the ball and in his duels he marked territory for Costa, the government of the Kampl party was a chair for personality, presence, placement and sense of the game to distribute. To that precise, swift wobble with the ball Nagelsmann adds a frenetic pace of off-the-ball play.

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RB Leipzig Gulacsi, Marcel Halstenberg, Dayotchanculle Upamecano, Lukas Klostermann, Tasende, Laimer (Tyler Adams, min. 71), Dani Olmo (Patrik Schick, min. 82), Kevin Kampl, M. Sabitzer (Nordi Mukiele, min. 91), Yussuf Poulsen and Nkunku (Amadou Haidara, min. 82) AtléticoOblak, Renan Augusto, Giménez, Trippier, Savic, Saúl, Héctor Herrera (João Félix, min. 57), Carrasco, Koke (Felipe Monteiro, min. 91), Diego Costa (Morata, min. 71) and Marcos Llorente

Goals1-0 min. 49: Dani Olmo. 1-1 min. 70: João Félix. 2-1 min. 87: Tyler Adams. Referee Szymon Marciniak Yellow cards Renan Augusto (min. 61), Lukas Klostermann (min. 69), Kevin Kampl (min. 81), Amadou Haidara (min. 86) and Giménez (min. 95)

That game in constant movement made Atlético suffer. Not because Oblak felt too threatened, but because Simeone's footballers had a hard time reaching the cutoff of so many combinations and unchecks. The rojiblancos suffered from the dizzying pace of Leipzig's sophisticated label, which their players interpret without any complex. Halstenberg had the goal in the lightning start of his team, but sent a free volley from a rebound to the cold stands. Carrasco, Atlético's only threatening footballer, answered with a foray behind a wall with Lodi. Gulacsi responded soberly to his dry and hard shot.

Penalty and rebound

The scratch did not reduce Leipzig, which only seemed reduced during a section of the first act when Atlético understood that it had to impose a lower rhythm to deactivate the amalgam of touches and vertiginous movements that took it away. However, it did not give him to remove Koke, Saúl, Herrera, Llorente and Diego Costa from anonymity. Not for Trippier and Lodi to take on adventures that would give depth to the low ball rhythm that their team printed. Nothing to do with the charges of Halstenberg and Angeliño. The slowdown to the game at least gave Simeone's footballers to adopt that pose in which it slips him that the rival dance to the three-quarters of the field while Oblak does not suffer.

With that landscape came the intermission, from which the most determined Leipzig emerged. Again with Upamecano and Kampl at the helm. The goal with which she opened the scoring was the perfect expression of her attractive staging. The ball circulating pendulum until Sabitzer broke through to the right to put a thread that Dani Olmo crossed with a neck twist to connect a manual header. The goal brought about the immediate presence of João Félix, substitute for the blurred Herrera. And the boy taught his great truth. That Atlético is one with him and another without him. That in full, he has to play yes or yes. The airs of change that he printed had to do with Atlético's greater ability to combine and to add more imbalance. His presence turned the crash completely upside down. Leipzig shrunk, assisting the Portuguese forward's hierarchy coup. Klostermann had no choice but to block him when he stood before Gulacsi behind a Costa wall, in what was the most outstanding action of the Spanish-Brazilian. In the midst of a surge of self-confidence, no one argued for João Félix to take responsibility for the hit, which was tight enough and tight enough that Gulacsi's stretch was not enough.

With 20 minutes to go, Atlético did not stop looking for the second goal. But he was met with a fatal blow that knocked him down. An incursion by Angeliño and a center back that Adams spliced ​​from outside the area and surpassed Oblak after rocking in Giménez. Atlético's latest fatality in Lisbon.

Source: elparis

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