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Atlético tames a cyclone

2020-12-10T07:44:55.009Z


The rojiblancos qualify after surviving the harassment of Salzburg and executing him with a goal from Hermoso with his shoulder and a counter culminated by Carrasco


Sheltered in the fur that now no longer looks so much, Atlético certified its pass to the second round.

He did a defensive memory exercise, of other successful times, to get rid of the brave Salzburg.

Simeone's team handled the game little, almost always at the mercy of their brash rival.

This was executed by Hermoso with a set piece before the break and with a fast attack culminated with finesse by? Carrasco when the rival had already opted for a suicide attack.

The forcefulness that he did not have in the games with Lokomotiv and with Bayern came to Atlético on the most indicated day.

It took Salzburg a kick of the ball, that of the kickoff, to wrap Atlético in their cyclonic football.

Much aggressiveness in disputes and few touches to step on the area as soon as possible.

Not two minutes had passed when one of those duels for the ball fell to Berisha.

Cut and damaging and low shot that crashed into Oblak's left post.

Atlético writhed before so much onslaught from Jesse Marchs' indomitable team.

The ball did not last two passes.

Where calm and precision were needed there were gross errors in delivery.

Koke did not tame the game and in the face of so much loss, the impression that the game was more for Herrera's personality and criteria than for Saúl's struggle.

Nor could Carrasco find lane to stretch the team.

And Luis Suárez was swallowed up by Ramalho and Wöber every time his teammates tried to connect with him.

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Salzburg Cican Stankovic, A. Ramalho, Ulmer, Wöber (Onguene, min. 89), Rasmus Nissen Kristensen, Dominik Szoboszlai (Masaya Okugawa, min. 88), Mergim Berisha, Junuzovic, Enock Mwepu (Luka Sucic, min. 88), Patson Daka (Noah Okafor, min. 72) and Sekou Koita (Karim Adeyemi, min. 78) Atlético Oblast, Savic, Mario Hermoso, Felipe Monteiro, Trippier, Marcos Llorente (Renan Augusto, min. 90), Koke, Carrasco (Lemar, min . 88), Saúl (Héctor Herrera, min. 63), João Félix (Lucas Torreira, min. 88) and Luis Suárez (Correa, min. 63)

Goals0-1 min.

38: Mario Hermoso.

0-2 min.

85: Carrasco.

Referee Anthony Taylor Yellow cards Mario Hermoso (min. 45), Savic (min. 60) and A. Ramalho (min. 70)

In the hour that he stayed on the field, the Uruguayan was overcome by the physique of his markers and by the speed of the game.

The step back ordered by Simeone did not favor either.

This broke with his theory of pressing and playing in the opposite field so as not to make him run on counterattacks.

Worth the draw, he rejected the shooting and his team was overwhelmed by the impetus with which Salzburg was planted.

A poor clearance by Savic in the area was handed over to Szoboszlai by Koita.

The cannon boy on the right did not break the ball.

He went for a smooth, tight shot to which Oblak responded with a successful low flight.

Two serious warnings before the quarter of an hour as a sign of the gale with which Salzburg opened the game.

Faced with a duel with so much lock in the pressure, the game demands hierarchies.

João Félix made a couple of threats to establish himself in that much-needed figure.

He paid for it with a couple of those Wöber ankle errands meant to mark territory.

Then Trippier appeared.

The Englishman began to give some continuity to the game from his side with his combinations with Marcos Llorente.

Atletico took twenty minutes to release his locker of shots on goal.

He came out of a triangulation between Koke, Suárez and Llorente and he ended it with a right hand that missed the goal for several spans.

Llorente had the opportunity to give João Félix a goal after stealing Koke's wallet from Kristensen inside the area.

Stankovic prevented with a cut more typical of a central than of a goalkeeper that the assistance came to fruition.

Atlético suffered less, because the frenzied attacks of the Austrian champion no longer found such precision.

Daka and Koita no longer bubbled so much behind the three rojiblancos centrals.

And Berisha and Szoboszlai broke little.

In the first act, the Hungarian left more details of his class with his dry and warped hits in the corners and lateral fouls that produced play.

With less stress, the figure of Mario Hermoso emerged.

A couple of snatches sewn to two clean passes led to a certain rise in Atlético, which at times settled in enemy territory.

Another ankle kick to João Félix, this time from Junuzovic, generated a lateral foul on the edge of half-time.

Carrasco gloved it closed and Mario Hermoso, with his shoulder, extended it out of Stankovic's reach.

With little control of the game and the rival, Atlético found control on the scoreboard in a set piece that once gave them so much.

Salzburg did not fold because of the blow.

He emerged bossy again in the second act.

Kristensen on the turn wasted another poisoned ball put in the area by Szoboszlai.

The Hungarian had the tie on the only occasion that he really wore a stride.

He threw a wall with Berisha and went through the Atlético defense to meet Oblak.

His hit, on the run, went by a finger to the right of the Slovenian goal.

Without any government, Simeone decreed the sung entries of Herrera by Saúl and Correa by Luis Suárez.

That double change took effect.

Mueku splintered the post with a shot from the edge of the area before the Mexican and Argentine began to carbure to increase the combinations and unmarked.

Correa threw a lethal one on the right that Trippier detected.

The Argentine's center was connected by Carrasco with a subtle interior touch that ended the game.

The possible rivals of the Spaniards in Monday's draw

The draw for the eighth of the top continental competition will take place next Monday at 12.00 at the House of European Football in Nyon (Switzerland).



Real Madrid, Bayern, Manchester City, Liverpool, PSG, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus will enter the hype as group leaders; as seconds will be Barcelona, ​​Atlético and Sevilla, who will be accompanied by Porto, Leipzig, Lazio, Atalanta and Mönchengladbach.



As third classified, Ajax, Manchester United, Dynamo Kiev, Bruges, Krasnodar, Olympiacos, Shakhtar and Salzburg will play the Europa League.



Despite the urgencies on the last day of the league, Madrid finished as the leader of their group and did so, curiously, with five points less than those obtained by Barça. The Barça team was thrashed by Juventus at the Camp Nou and is now exposed to a cross with Bayern, City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Dortmund or PSG. Meanwhile, the whites could face only Leipzig, Lazio, Porto or Atalanta. Sevilla, for their part, will have to face Bayern, City, Liverpool, Dortmund, Juventus or PSG. And Atlético, who finished their qualification on the last day, may collide with City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Dortmund, Juventus or PSG.



The first leg matches will be played on February 16 and 17, and will continue on February 23 and 24, while the return matches will be resolved in March: on the 9th and 10th, first, and on the 16th and 17th as a finishing touch to the eighth. According to UEFA, the group leaders will contest the first leg away from home and the second leg at home.

Source: elparis

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