Atlético, from disaster to ecstasy

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Dead as it was, with two goals against after a disastrous first half, Atlético now only had to appeal to pride and epicness.

With the fans on fire, when before they had attended a funeral beginning and had even been rebellious with the changes of their coach, a disheveled team emerged, planted in the opposite field in search of a victory that seemed like a chimera for what had been seen in the first 45 minutes.

Cunha, Correa and Hermoso certified a comeback that Simeone celebrated as just another fan.

ATM Athletic

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Oblak, Renan Augusto (Correa, min. 45), Mario Hermoso, Giménez, Vrsaljko (Héctor Herrera, min. 60), Lemar (Matheus Cunha, min. 56), De Paul, Koke, Carrasco (Javier Serrano, min. 98 ), João Félix (Felipe Monteiro, min. 56) and Luis Suárez

VALValencia

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Jaume, Thierry Correia (Cristhian Ibarguen, min. 71), Mouctar Diakhaby, Foulquier, Lato (Vazquez Alcalde, min. 71), Omar Alderete (Koba Koindredi, min. 53), Carlos Soler, Yunus Musah (Uros Racic, min. 87), Hugo Guillamón, Gonçalo Guedes and Hugo Duro (Maxi Gómez, min. 71)

Goals

0-1 min.

24: Yunus Musah.

0-2 min.

43: Hugo Hard.

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63: Matheus Cunha.

2-2 min.

89: Strap.

3-2 min.

92: Beautiful Mario.

Referee

Isidro Diaz de Mera Escuderos

Yellow cards Thierry Correia (min. 13), Koke (min. 26), Mario Hermoso (min. 37), Foulquier (min. 37), Yunus Musah (min. 42), Hugo Guillamón (min. 60), Lato ( min. 64), Luis Suárez (min. 81), Jaume (min. 82), Héctor Herrera (min. 83), Giménez (min. 92) and Renan Augusto (min. 93)

From disaster, Atlético went to ecstasy. The question is why, if this team won the League playing in the opposite field, is it so reserved at the beginning of the matches? The symptoms of Atlético's comatose state were numerous, but none betrayed his agony more than the sum of his talents had the result that nothing happened in the first half. Neither Lemar, nor João Félix, nor De Paul, nor Carrasco, nor Lodi, nor Suárez. Nothing happened, against a Valencia who played their game while waiting for the local collapse. That the same occurs with the lateral centers that with the bad anticipations of their centrals. One day it's Felipe, another Giménez and other times Hermoso, like this Saturday.

He failed in his attempt to snatch the ball from Guedes and the Portuguese mounted a full-field counterattack. His change of orientation was received by Musah in a free run. By the time he looked into the box, Vrsaljko was waiting for him so fearfully that, instead of facing him one on one, he backed away. So Musah took a simple inside cut to sharpen the shot and adjust a low shot. One shot, one goal. At the first swing, the champion's knees buckled again. The red-and-white fans maintained their traditional containment in the face of setbacks and tried to spur some disqualified footballers.

The plain and nothingness took over a team that was subdued by the trade of Valencia. The Bordalás team had already managed not to play for anything and ended up imposing their times and their locked game. With the goal in favor, fouls and confusion multiplied. The ideal landscape for Valencia and fatal for Atlético.

The same indeterminacy that accompanies Simeone's decisions was reflected in his players after many returns to the drawing and the lineups. The only one that he hadn't tried is to send the team back to play in the opposite field with more decision. His Atlético did not stop emitting signs of being a broken team. Any action in the vicinity of his area uncovered his defensive fragility. A poor clearance by Giménez and Hermoso ended with a filtered ball to Hugo Duro, who deceived Oblak in his desperate exit to avoid the inevitable. This time the parish did not harangue their own. The silence was sepulchral. The Metropolitan was transformed into a wake, which only stirred to sing a few timid whistles when the referee concluded the first act.

With two goals against and the water up to their necks, at least in the second half, Atlético's pride arose to invoke the epic and finally go head-to-head for the clash in the opposite field.

Simeone sat Lodi down and put Correa in as the first brushstroke to wash the team's face.

Already installed in the Valencia field, ready to take risks, his second movement of pieces was answered by the stands because he sent Lemar and João Félix to the bench, who had just left Suárez hand in hand with Doménech.

Felipe and Cunha entered.

The local waves ended up boxing Valencia, sure of their advantage and their skill to sedate the game and take risks. Bordalás' team gave themselves over to the defense of their area and forgot about the counterattacks, despite the fact that Guedes looked sharp. He conceded the first goal in a close corner kick that wandered through the small area of ​​Doménech until Cunha pushed him. Atlético still had half an hour for the heroic.

Led by Carrasco, Correa's wriggles and Herrera's criteria, he overwhelmed Valencia, already permanently entrenched and waiting for time to pass or for their players to lose it.

Suárez had the tie in a center behind Hermoso, but the Uruguayan was invaded by precipitation and hit the ball as it came when the shot called for more pause.

A soft header from Koke warned that the match could still be long for the already fearful Bordalás team.

Correa caught a rebound for the equalizer in the first minute of stoppage time and two later, Hermoso made up for his mistakes by pushing a crossed shot from Cunha that went wide into the empty net.

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