Sorloth celebrates Simeone’s 700 games with a saving goal that resolves in the home stretch an infamous afternoon for Atlético, powerless to harm an Alavés coral which was pressing the fruit of a surreal penalty from Galán at startup. García Verdura came to the rescue reds and whites with another more than questionable sanction in the 74th minute and the right foot of the Norwegian striker in the 86th minute prevented a real debacle that had long been anticipated. Are five consecutive victories, but again, there is food for thought.
Atlético trotted out, confident that their superiority would win out in the end, but Plans didn’t go as he thought because suddenly everything got complicated in the most absurd way possible. After seven minutes, a center without apparent danger of Carlos Vicente I deleted it Gallant in the area with the outstretched hand. A sanction as incomprehensible as it is incontestable that Guridi he didn’t waste it. Alavés, who did not enter the red and white penalty area and did not do so throughout the match, was ahead on the scoreboard.
7’⏱️| 0-1
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
⚽ With what mastery and calm the Babazorro player took the maximum penalty
GOOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!!#AtletiAlavés#LALIGAEASPORTS | #GoazenGlorious ⚪️🔵 pic.twitter.com/OSALgFFV5Z
– Sportsman Alavés (@Alaves) November 23, 2024
Forced to row against the tide, the team took a step forward and cornered a rival who, aware that a treasure had fallen into his hands, was preparing to defend his income tooth and nail. In the 17th minute, after a tumult in the area, the ball fell at point blank range. Samu Lino, whose shot bounced violently off the crossbar to the despair of Simeone, who had already started running to celebrate the equalizing goal. Garcia Square He received the warning on the fly and delayed Carlos Vicente to add troops to the rear.
Time would leave Lino’s opportunity as the only one from the first part for one Sterile athletic that he crashed again and again into the wall that the Vitorians put in front of him and that this only contributed to the statistics three long shots from koke and two of Llorente without the slightest danger. Alavés took their spoils at the break without suffering too much and left the whole Metropolitano shaking faced with the consequences of a result which was a real tragedy.
Sorloth and Giuliano replace Llorente and Galán after the break and the team went from a four-man defense to a five-man defense, but the key was the increased intensity they gave to the game, and that was felt in the two cases. first departure from Cholito on the right wing. Alavés were now beginning to compromise, but without Sivera having to intervene for the moment.
Lenglet had a very clear opportunity in the 58th minute when he headed alone into the box from a free kick taken by Griezmann, but the Frenchman failed to realize the advantage he had and finished wide. Simeone looked first at the sky then to his right. Julián Álvarez didn’t wait any longer and he joined a match that was taking minutes at an increasingly dangerous pace for Atlético. Completely nervous, Cholo turned to De Paul already the first Riquelme then barely 20 minutes from the end and with a shot from Giuliano that Sivera repelled with the leg as the only attempt with a minimum of structure.
Just as all the alarms were going off, in the 74th minute, unexpected help arrived at Atlético. A cross from De Paul was met in the area by Sorloth with Abqar, who in his struggle with the Norwegian touched the ball with his arm. García Verdura whistled the first penalty in his favor of the season and, even though García Plaza went crazy calling for a previous foul, the Catalan referee remained unchanged. Griezmann did not waste the opportunity and brought the match back to a tie, a result that was still insufficient.
GRIZI TIE! 15′ left 👊 pic.twitter.com/x8zn1b0nn7
– Atlético de Madrid (@Atleti) November 23, 2024
The 1-1 did not upset Alavés, but at least it calmed the nerves of a now much more rational Atlético who was patiently waiting for their last opportunity. At 86 minutes De Paul leaked a pass that Sorloth caught and which he resolved with an unstoppable right hand for Sivera. The score of 2-1 fell into the stadium like manna in the Sinai desert and served to close three points too long in danger so much so that Simeone does not draw the appropriate reflections from it, starting with the decisive clash next Tuesday in Prague.
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– Atlético de Madrid (@Atleti) November 23, 2024
