The Metropolitano is not attacked: Atlético resists and eliminates Madrid

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A derby with a KO is a duel of intimate enemies, a stretched out fraternal brawl, since Simeone is there, always at the extreme, which is extra time.

And this time Atlético took it, a week after seeing another Super Cup match slip away in Riyadh.

That night he also started ahead, he also saw how Madrid struggled to catch up with him, he also saw himself surrounded.

But at home, where he hasn't lost for more than a year, he held on and even found the breath for one last blow.

It was a strange action, in extra time, with the night already out of control.

Vini missed a ball that Griezmann took.

The Brazilian started chasing him.

Up to the area.

And there the Frenchman found a loophole to start drowning out the tie and take the team to the quarterfinals.

ATMAthletic

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Oblak, Mario Hermoso, Witsel, Giménez, Marcos Llorente (Pablo Barrios Rivas, min. 98), Samuel Lino (Rodrigo Riquelme, min. 91), Koke, Saúl (Nahuel Molina, min. 56), De Paul (Azpilicueta, min. . 105), Griezmann and Morata (Depay, min. 98)

RMA Real Madrid

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Andriy Lunin, Nacho (Fran Garcia, min. 105), Dani Carvajal, Rüdiger, Ferland Mendy (Brahim Diaz, min. 66), Modric (Kroos, min. 66), Camavinga (Dani Ceballos, min. 105), Federico Valverde (Aurelien Tchouameni, min. 73), Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo (Joselu, min. 80) and Vinicius Junior

Goals

1-0 min.

38: Samuel Lino.

1-1 min.

45: Oblak (pp).

2-1 min.

57: Morata.

2-2 min.

81: Joselu.

3-2 min.

100: Griezmann.

4-2 min.

118: Rodrigo Riquelme.

Referee

Guillermo Cuadra Fernández

Yellow cards Vinicius Junior (min. 44), Camavinga (min. 55), Morata (min. 58), Brahim Diaz (min. 68), De Paul (min. 78), Koke (min. 79), Simeone (min. . 83), Aurelien Tchouameni (min. 84), Jude Bellingham (min. 86), Dani Carvajal (min. 89), Griezmann (min. 101) and Witsel (min. 113)

The Cup derby left another installment of the rivalry, intense and overflowing, passionate and entertaining.

Although the tension accumulated since the 5-3 shooting in Arabia took a while to release.

The night began with a certain distance, as if postponing the announced hand-to-hand combat.

They only felt the breath in every touch, pursued in every throw.

It smelled of danger.

The first time Modric found Bellingham in the area, he beat Witsel and hit the crossbar.

Oblak clears a ball in the Atlético area.

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Beyond the attention to the Englishman, and the whistles to Vinicius, Madrid played with a certain ease.

He left without any problems, except for some Lunin traffic jams that bothered Ancelotti.

He even reached the area, like the pass that left Rodrygo alone against Oblak, who rejected the point-blank shot and Vini's subsequent attempt.

Atlético took a while to advance.

Some steals left Koke or Saúl spinning around, unable to find runs ahead to target.

And when he managed to camp in the opposite half, he became vulnerable to runs into the spaces he left behind.

Madrid stole and directed their sights to the left, where Bellingham and Vinicius were running, who did not have many difficulties in overtaking Witsel.

The Englishman's stride is a fearsome threat.

In one of the attempts, Koke hung on him a little, but the Real Madrid player got rid of him and continued walking.

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Atlético also had a couple of timid warnings that died in Lunin's hands.

Nothing too spicy, a diffuse threat at best.

Low, almost polite tone.

Until De Paul hung a ball towards an unknown place on the front.

The game began to blur with the commotion of the play itself.

The center accidentally touched Griezmann, which made it difficult for Rüdiger to clear.

The ball fell to Lino, and Lino beat Lunin.

That did open the spigot of the boiler of pending tensions.

The agitation appeared, in a section of pushing, with Lino on the ground, Bellingham lifting him up, the Brazilian letting himself fall again, and a yellow for Vinicius, very agitated, even on the verge of expulsion.

Vinicius controls a ball.

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In that mud, with the ball boys blocking the game with extra balls, Madrid found the tie.

Not through the game, which had been bringing him closer to Oblak, but because of an error by the goalkeeper himself.

Another mess similar to the goal that Kepa conceded in Riyadh.

Modric took a foul, the Slovenian tried to punch him among several teammates and ended up putting the ball in his goal.

It was the night of the blurs.

Atlético went ahead again in another.

A pass into the area bounced off Camavinga, Lunin's clearance bounced off Rüdiger and Morata caught in the commotion.

The disorder gave goals and left a duel disjointed, with falls, interruptions, complaints.

Atlético, with an advantage, lived more comfortably in that fragmentary game to which Griezmann added a strange and damaging order.

Then Ancelotti introduced the Cartesian Kroos for Modric and the firebrand Brahim for Mendy.

Simeone turned to try to lift the stands.

He also tried to cool down his people.

The floodgates of the night had opened, placing before them the temptation to search for more.

And they had it very close: Lunin took Morata one-on-one.

But temptation always hides a risk, which Cholo foresaw.

Atlético de Madrid coach El Cholo Simeone directs his team from the sideline.

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In the next, Vinicius found Bellingham in the area and the Englishman, at the far post, found Joselu, who had just come out, who equalized with a header.

To take the tie to where these derbies always fall: to extra time.

And there, this time, Atlético survived, firm, courageous and driven by the genius of Griezmann.

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