Levante ridicules Atlético

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Levante, last classified, brought out the colors of a stingy and poor Atlético.

Lisci's set won without reproach.

He was better and braver against an embarrassing Atlético, minimized by the plan with which his coach intends to straighten out a project that founders week after week.

This time not even the epic saved Atlético and the Metropolitano fans said enough with a loud whistle.

ATM Athletic

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Oblak, Marcos Llorente, Reinildo Mandava (Renan Augusto, min. 77), Giménez, Savic, Koke (Vrsaljko, min. 64), Kondogbia, Lemar (Héctor Herrera, min. 77), De Paul (João Félix, min. 63 ), Correa and Matheus Cunha (Luis Suárez, min. 64)

LEV Raise

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Daniel Cárdenas, Óscar Duarte, Son, Miramón, Martín Cáceres, Róber, Pepelu (Nikola Vukcevic, min. 88), Gonzalo Melero (Coke, min. 88), Enis Bardhi (Malsa, min. 61), Roger (Morales, min. . 67) and De Frutos (Dani Gómez, min. 67)

Goals

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53: Gonzalo Melero.

Referee

Jose Luis Munuera Montero

Yellow cards De Paul (min. 25), Pepelu (min. 69), Dani Gómez (min. 75), Savic (min. 84), Miramón (min. 84), Correa (min. 95) and Son (min. 84). 96)

In the search for balance and defensive solidity, Simeone has decided to downsize his proposal.

He did not care that the bottom team and team with the most goals in the championship paid a visit.

The greatness that Atlético did not have to go for the game, the almost evicted Levante had.

His was the first time for courage and daring.

With footballers like Bardhi, De Frutos, Roger, Melero or Pepelu, willing to certify the most possible relegation betting on dominating the game.

Quite the opposite of Atlético.

Speculator and reserve in his own home, and before a perplexed fan by what he endured watching without any intention that football passes through his midfielders.

If anything in the second plays, the tactical sneak of fearful teams.

Atlético played a lot in this stake,

needy as he is to follow the slipstream of Betis and keep distances with Barcelona and Villarreal to obtain a place in the next Champions League.

It gives the impression that their competitors are all in full flood and that the rojiblancos are shrinking day by day, disoriented because their coach cannot find a definitive plan.

The primary that he had this time ended up irritating his fans, tired of so much inaccuracy and seeing Oblak take long before the bottom team.

Levante shook the champion, took the ball from him and could already hurt him on a couple of clear occasions.

Of course, with the usual gift from an Atlético defender.

This time it was Giménez, who between clearing a header forward or combing the ball back in midfield, opted for the latter and fell short.

The blunder put De Frutos before his ideal setting to exhibit his powerful stride to Oblak's beard.

The good news in the face of nonsense was that the Slovenian goalkeeper won the heads-up with his left boot.

Later, a header from Roger Martí in the vicinity of the small area revealed the chronic defensive hole of this course.

Faced with the audacity of Levante, Atlético only offered a couple of incursions by Marcos Llorente, condemned to the side again because Simeone does not trust Vrsaljko, whose centers did not find a finisher.

A high shot by Lemar, after a ruckus in the area, was the only return that Atlético got from their coach's metallurgical proposal.

None of their midfielders prevailed on long serves or rebounds.

Cunha, Correa and Lemar, the small bunch of unbalanced players that Cholo lined up did not have a context to expand.

The Metropolitan explodes

Nor did they find it at the start of the second half.

Released from pressure, Levante continued with its goal to continue ruling the game and not be in a hurry.

He quickly attacked Alessio Lisci's team, which has not managed to shore up a stable defensive system, but has launched his team to star in transitions that generate a good number of chances per game.

The play that was linked between Roger, De Frutos and Melero dismantled the red and white defense.

When they realized it, Melero lined up Oblak from a angle to execute him with a strong right hand.

The ball bent the Slovenian's mitten.

That's where the stands ended up exploding.

The whistle was majority.

The patience for the show offered by his team is over.

Each failed pass has already turned into a booing concert.

More than an hour of play had already passed and Cárdenas still had spotless gloves and suit.

The only scare that Levante had was a shot by Kondogbia that crashed into the hands of Duarte and the referee signaled the penalty.

The VAR rectified the decision due to Llorente's previous offside.

Levante had the sentence, in another quick combination in which Malsa left De Frutos in front of Oblak, who this time did defend a shot similar to the first goal with a harder hand.

Again, the acoustics reflected the dissatisfaction with the nonsense of his team.

The changes did not improve Atlético either.

Simeone put all the artillery and the best footballers he had on the bench.

Vrsaljko, Luis Suárez and João Félix entered in one shot, and then Lodi and Herrera joined.

Any.

The rojiblancos continued installed in the offensive nothing, beyond playing more in the opposite field.

There was not even an approach that came close to the goal.

Except for a half scissors that Correa holed, the goal being annulled due to a previous foul by Giménez in the jump.

The next play was the last upset that the red and white fans digested.

A volley from Malsa from midfield crashed into the crossbar.

The image of Oblak trying to finish off a foul and Simeone crestfallen on the way to the locker room portrayed the catastrophe and the red-and-white embarrassment.

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