Gallagher presents his credentials with your first goal in red and white before a Metropolitan delivered to the Englishman, whose characteristics fit perfectly into the genetics of Atlético. The former Chelsea It was enough to crush Valencia in midfield and he also single-handedly solved his teammates’ obvious offensive problems against a well-organized but too-embarrassed opponent. The victory allows those of Simeone continue the face-to-face with Real Madrid and does not give up more points to the leader Barcelona, but now it’s time to park the League for a few days and focus on the Champions League debut next Thursday.
Atlético wasted their energy and ambition early on, but beyond their hustle, the truth is that He lacked solid arguments to deserve this goal. In fact, it took him 18 minutes to create his first chance, and that was more the product of an opponent’s mistake than his own success. Sorloth A ball fell from the sky during a clearance to the back, but only before Mamarsdahvili Norwegian He clarified that technique is not his best virtue. He scored twice 1-0 in a row, but the first time he sent his shot into the body of the Georgian goalkeeper and the second time he missed the volley while he was unmarked at the penalty spot.
Subjected to a rival who drowned him mercilessly, Valencia barely made an appearance beyond midfield. Daniel Gomez It was an islet and Javi Guerra This did not come into play. However, while it is true that the attack was non-existent, the team Bridge easily resolved the internal attacks, which almost always came from the side of Marcos Llorente, much superior to Thierry. The Madrid player left several very promising crosses, but none of his teammates were able to convert them into goals.
The match began to remind Simeone dangerously of the night against Espanyol, but this time The Gallagher factor was decisive. In the 38th minute, as Atlético desperately sought a path to 1-0, Valencia lost a disallowed ball in the middle of the field and authorized Sorloth mount a perfect counterattack that began in Griezmann, continued in From Paul and it ended at the feet of the Englishman, who only at the penalty spot beat Mamardashvili on the way out with a low shot. His first goal as a rojiblanco. It surely won’t be his last.
Baraja has retired Guillaume at the break to enter Barrenechea in a movement accompanied by a brutal order: combat brawl. With everything lost Valencia has got rid of its complexes and I watched the game for the first time. In the 50th minute, Javi Guerra left the stadium out of breath with a shot from outside the area that ended up just short of the post. The Valencia bench watched with pleasure the change of direction, but unfortunately for them, it was just an illusion.
An illusion from which he woke up abruptly and tragically. Four minutes later, a throw-in near the left corner of Valencia ended with a cross from Llorente that Lino touched in the area so that Griezmann is among the central defenders to finish comfortably in the back of the net and to place themselves, in the first red and white arrival of the second half, a 2-0 that had all the characteristics of being definitive.
The night ended there because Atletico began to save its efforts Ahead of the visit of Leipzig next Thursday, Valencia have done enough to maintain their form. Simeone has brought Julien Alvarez And Belt first and later Riquelme, Reinildo And Giuliano. For a long time, there was nothing else to put in your mouth but a gunshot. Thierry which forced Oblak will intervene for the first time in the 86th minute.. That was all a last-placed Valencia team had to offer. Metropolitan and it happened exactly the same. Baraja has a lot of work ahead of him.
Howeveror the icing was missingwhich happened when the lights started to go out. With the game almost over, Riquelme was running down the left and his cross into the box, after tripping over Mamardashvili and Tárrega, fell from the sky onto Julián Álvarez, who only had to push it into the back of the net to score his first goal as a rojiblanco. A dose of adrenaline for the Argentinian, who once again went unnoticed, and an even greater joy for his great supporter, Cholo Simeone, who celebrated it as if it were a victory.
