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Against a substitute for the champion, whom he did not make a corridor, Atlético took a distressing victory that brings him closer to the economic lifeline of the Champions League.
He was able to kill the game before, but he was forced to end in which Oblak was entrusted to avoid a greater ridicule than the one in the corridor: not having been able to defeat Madrid with fewer players and competitive tension that was planted in the Metropolitan.
ATM Athletic
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Oblak, Vrsaljko, Savic, Giménez, Reinildo Mandava (Felipe Monteiro, min. 72), Koke, Carrasco (Renan Augusto, min. 93), Marcos Llorente, Kondogbia, Correa (Griezmann, min. 45) and Matheus Cunha (De Paul , minute 88)
RMA Real Madrid
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Andriy Lunin, Lucas Vázquez, Jesús Vallejo, Eder Militao (Ferland Mendy, min. 67), Nacho, Camavinga, Kroos (Modric, min. 67), Casemiro (Federico Valverde, min. 60), Jovic (Vinicius Junior, min. 60), Rodrygo and Marco Asensio
Goals
1-0 min.
39: Aleppo.
Referee
César Soto Grado
Yellow cards Jovic (min. 19), Lucas Vázquez (min. 27), Marcos Llorente (min. 36), Jesús Vallejo (min. 37), Savic (min. 62) and Nacho (min. 70)
The two alignments had a story.
That of Madrid, without part of its backbone and plagued by secondary and tertiary players (Lunin, Lucas Vázquez, Vallejo, Camavinga, Jovic) because in this League it has already done what it had to do.
Ancelotti gave holidays to Courtois, the best goalkeeper of the season, Modric's brain and Benzema, the championship's top scorer.
In Atlético's eleven, above all, the confirmation of Griezmann's absence was very relevant.
With the rope around his neck, due to the need to reach a place in the next Champions League, Simeone had never dispensed with one of his leading players with so much at stake.
To play behind Cunha, he chose Marcos Llorente.
A matter of legs and lungs for high pressure prepared to stifle the champion.
With another bench for Luis Suárez and with João Félix injured,
The three headliners of the red and white forward were relegated.
With the bag of millions from the Champions League at stake, Simeone has opted for his players with more motor to, at least, not leave points for lack of intensity.
So the staging was a true reflection of alienation and the needs of one and the other.
Atlético emerged inflamed, ready to turn each dispute into a joint battle in which Madrid was not willing to enter.
The rojiblancos took the ball and the errors in the deliveries of Ancelotti's players occurred in the first few minutes.
Correa and Carrasco lacked tact to specify two frank shots.
Madrid, of countryside and beach, fully integrated into the spring night, did not flinch.
Ancelotti's team tried to put their leg in just enough and hope that Atlético would get stuck as time went by.
And it happened: Simeone's team dominated, but it seemed that the moment Kroos abandoned the slow rhythm of the ball that he imposed, he could make a seam pop.
The former champion got into one of those phases of ineffectiveness that have accompanied him during the season.
He fiddled with the ball from side to side without finding a way past a team that was just holding position.
There was more derby in the stands than on the grass, until one of those classic losses of a filling team was catapulted by Marcos Llorente so that Cunha exploited the open hole.
The Brazilian headed the area and fell between Militão and Vallejo.
The referee did not signal a penalty.
It was the VAR that warned him of Vallejo's stomp.
Carrasco did not fail.
Casemiro's ornament
With the rojiblanca advantage, on the brink of rest, Oblak took a one-on-one from Jovic with his chest, the greatest exponent of the holiday with which Madrid took the appointment.
He should have given Ancelotti a touch of attention to his merits, because his staging was more decorous.
Enough to upset his rival, that he gave way to Griezmann for Correa.
Jovic was clumsy in a frank maneuver in the area and Casemiro took to trying to adorn himself by trying to place a meek thread in the squad when Oblak was halfway out.
Madrid also put fear in Atlético's body because Carrasco and Cunha were unable to execute Lunin without a Madridista around them.
Not extending the advantage put the duel in the worst possible scenario for Simeone's men, because Ancelotti began to load bullets with Modric, Valverde and the always threatening Vinicius.
There were no minutes for Benzema, which would have increased the local psychosis, but the panic that Madrid would equalize in a transition and hinder the path to the long-awaited Champions League place hovered in each gallop of the Brazilian and on each occasion that Atlético was blinded before the goal after clear counterattacks that the white carefreeness granted him.
Carrasco crashed one into the post and Griezmann missed a parabola by half a span.
The fear of a final mischief increased with a hard shot from Valverde batted by Oblak.
The rojiblanco funk betrayed him that Simeone opted for Felipe when Reinildo was injured.
Another Valverde missile also repelled by Oblak and the final charge kept the memory of a nightmare that did not occur.
Atlético, with equaling the result of Betis in Valencia in Elche, will be a Champions team.
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