Who knows if it was the little rest between matches – four matches in ten days -, the sanction after the altercations of the derby – partial closure of the suir fund of Metropolitan-, play in a stadium with the famous red and white memory or all at once. The truth is that the Athletic was not found in the maze Lisbon. He Benfica of Bruno Lagemore organized without the ball and with more verticality and clarity of ideas with possession, inflicted the red and whites with the first defeat of this season. [Narración y estadísticas].
Simeone’s men melted in the boiler Gives light. Slow in ideas and slow in their legs, they were unable to keep up with the pace imposed by Benfica from the opening whistle. Pavlidis did everything possible to transform the match Giménez in a headache. He got something positive out of every game. Either oxygen to your team or alternatives. Both intangibles produced from his excellent back game.
All this without shying away from the goal. It was the first opportunity in the game that gave rise to an exercise in reflexes Oblak to deny him the goal. It was a warning. A first diagnosis of the problem that Atlético suffers when it travels outside national borders. There are already five consecutive starts without a victory. The Lisbon meeting started in a winding manner, with curves that were too pronounced.
Benfica’s pressing was rewarded when Reinildo And Linen They failed to clear the ball, koke He also did not make the right clearance and Aursnes gave in so that Akturkoglu defeated Oblak one-on-one.
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