Llorente and Suárez avoid the collapse of Atlético

A goal from Marcos Llorente prevented Atlético's collapse after a first half in which he was shaken by Betis.

Luis Suárez extended the advantage by one against when Manuel Pellegrini's team played with one less and broke down in search of a tie.

Llorente's goal, before the first minute of the second act was completed, turned off Pellegrini's good team, bossy in the first half, the victim of an oversight when he returned from the locker room.

Somehow, the target reflected much of what the encounter was.

From the beginning it was seen that if Atlético won, it would be more due to an error on the contrary.

If Betis did it, it would be from a cleaner and more elaborate game.

Nobody found out in Betis of a throw-in taken quickly by the rojiblancos.

Llorente's start nailed Mandi and Bravo's exit left him open the only angle that Llorente, very heeled, had to overcome.

Lined up as a forward with Luis Suárez, his, physical, is a matter of overexploitation.

The same was going to press the exit of the ball from Betis that was embedded in defense between Torreira and Koke.

And when his team had to defend the result, he applied himself as a wing midfielder.

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AtléticoOblak, Mario Hermoso (Renan Augusto, min. 76), Savic, Felipe Monteiro, Trippier, Lucas Torreira (Carrasco, min. 45), Correa (João Félix, min. 56), Koke, Lemar (Héctor Herrera, min. 45 ), Luis Suárez and Marcos LlorenteBetisBravo, Álex Moreno, Bartra, Mandi, Montoya, Nabil Fekir, William Carvalho (Loren Morón, min. 64), Canales, Guido Rodríguez (Víctor Ruiz, min. 79), Tello (Joaquín, min. 64) and Sanabria (Borja Iglesias, min. 79)

Goals1-0 min.

45: Marcos Llorente.

2-0 min.

90: Luis Suarez.

Referee Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz Yellow cards Luis Suárez (min. 40) and Koke (min. 49) Red cards Montoya (min. 73)

The victory gives Atlético to score four points for Barcelona and as many for Sevilla.

With one game less, it is the only team that is in arithmetic conditions to beat Madrid in the table with equal games.

A good sign from the reality of the classification.

Superior to the sensations generated by his match.

It was worth 45 decent minutes, the seconds.

The first were alarming.

After the Munich thrashing, Atlético barely appeared in the first half.

He was danced by Betis, who built his dominance from a clean handling of the ball from back to front.

Almost always sharpened by Tello, who kept up the trend of enlarging the Trippier hole that rivals have long discovered on that side.

On the run or standing up, the English side was hammered by the green-and-white winger.

There, Simeone has a serious problem in defensive stability and even in offense.

Trippier is on his way to becoming a mere set piece talker.

On the left, between Montoya and Fekir they also hustled Mario Hermoso, although he could still defend himself from his physique and his momentum.

The problem in the center of the field that Atlético manifested was also worrying.

Neither Torreira nor Koke supported their team against Guido and William Carvalho.

Everything academic that was Betis was the antithesis of Atlético.

A soft head butt from Carvalho forced Oblak to draw a popcorn.

Fekir demanded the Slovenian goalkeeper to stretch down.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Betis had finished off seven times, quadrupled in passes to Simeone's team and shook him with an insulting authority.

Face change

An incursion by Correa and his center back badly finished off by Suárez was Atlético's first warning.

The second came after a mistake by William Carvalho.

Another sign that the rojiblanca victory path would be related to some failure.

The Portuguese midfielder headed a back assignment and what he did was put Luis Suárez on the run against Bravo.

The Uruguayan, who has a lack of repris, had to resolve from the front of the area with a cross shot because Bartra threw himself on top of him.

In other times, with more legs, the Chilean goal would have been measured more closely.

The feeling of inferiority was so manifest that Simeone operated at halftime without regard.

He sat Torreira and Lemar, who offer less and less.

The French footballer has remained a player who runs with commitment back and forth.

With the ball, which was his great value, he dares very little.

The relays were Herrera and Carrasco, the best of the team in Munich.

The look of Atlético was very different.

Marcos Llorente's legs marked the dizzying start of a team that a quarter of an hour earlier had gone dead to the locker room.

Llorente chased the ball from the kickoff to end up forcing the throw-in that generated the rojiblanca advantage.

The goal was followed by a shot at Herrera's post, a good jump from outside the area.

Atlético was unleashed in 10 minutes in which they generated more than in the first half.

However, Sanabria had a hand in hand with Oblak, won by him with his foot.

Simeone understood that the game was more to close against than to win it by crushing.

João Félix was admitted by an inconsequential Correa.

The Portuguese, fresh in his legs, took command of the counterattacks.

With a touch with the outside he launched Carrasco against Bravo, who, already defeated, took the shot of the Belgian with his head.

João Félix himself had another couple of occasions before Betis were left with ten for the expulsion of Montoya.

Already delivered, he received the final blow from Luis Suárez, who, like his team, shows better numbers, four goals, what a game.

The best unbeaten streak of the rojiblancos in their league history

Atlético de Madrid have not lost any of their last 21 LaLiga games (12 wins and nine draws), establishing the best undefeated streak in their history in the top flight.

Keeping a clean sheet against Betis also means having conceded just one goal after the first five LaLiga games this season, their best start in terms of goals conceded at this point since 95-96 (one too), when they won the championship at the end of the campaign with Radomir Antic as coach.

“In the first half, they were superior.

They did not have many goal situations and we, not having a good game, it was clear that we had had two important ones.

We chatted at halftime and the changes improved the speed of circulation and the goal appeared ”, Simeone analyzed.

“I was very satisfied with what we did in the first half, I think we lacked perhaps a little more precision to finalize the number of arrivals we had.

It was very important to score first and 20 seconds into the second half Atlético found themselves in a side kick with the goal.

With an advantage, they take refuge further back and are dangerous in the counterattack ”, complained Pellegrini.