Real Madrid has a 2-1 lead to protect himself in the second half of his 16 Champions League round against Atlético de Madrid.
The headlines marked what was a prominent goals battle on Tuesday night, with Brahim Díaz, who was back on the team in the absence of Jude Bellingham, demonstrating the winner of the game in a tight topic that he turned in both ways.
While defeated, Diego Simeone will settle for a unique deficit of the target, as they host the return in eight days.
As the game was deployed
There was a pre -match expectation of a close relationship with these two parts that were known too well. However, the hosts threatened to change this narrative in the type of occasion that usually manifests its most powerful form.
After four minutes, Real Madrid was in front. A beautiful passage by Federico Valverde behind Javi Galan turned Rodrygo apart, and the Brazilian, playing right, surpassed the pace to the left, cut into Clement Lenglet and pierced an emphatic effort on the left beyond Jan Oblak.
Fervent Bernabeu increased his ferocity and Rodrygo intended to make a mockery of Galan. The end was back behind the experienced defender, minutes after his brilliant workshop, but the athleti man almost did enough to unbalance the Madrid scorer without having to leave a penalty.
The visitors were nowhere to be found during the initial 20 minutes, while Simeone tried to instill calm. Athleti was frantic in possession and succumb to the counter-usa of Madrid over and over. However, they finally settled and began to find their slot. The sequences of possession grew in length and its own tenacity without the ball allowed a feeling of suffocation to surround the white.
Its augmented threat went to the top through Julian Alvarez, who escaped from Eduardo Camavinga’s funnel on the left before triggered a curling effort beyond Thibaut Courtois to equalize.
Athleti then controlled the rest of the first half, as the hosts once assertive struggled to combine the transition and fight the problems of the Samuel Lino positioning between the lines caused.
There was no change in the dynamic after the restart, but Madrid met again in front of the play play. The whistles had greeted Carlo Ancelotti’s side in the initial minutes of the second half, but their mood was changed after Brahim shone in the athleti box to work a little space before healing an Oblak effort to make it 2-1.
Antoine Griezmann forced Courtois a smart savings shortly after Brahim’s goal, but Madrid, after Luka Modric entered the Fray, then began enjoying his best party period from the opening exchanges. However, both teams were limited to the final third until the end of the contest. Madrid had an excellent opportunity to score a third in the stoppage, but the pairing fried by Kylian Mbapppe and Vinicius Junior could not be combined to supply the hosts with a larger pillow.
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Madrid has been defined for times and promoting the Champions League. On Tuesday night, two prominent game sequences helped them victory.
Jan Oblak was not a busy boy at all, but he chose the ball from his net for desperately to try to avoid two excellent goals. Rodrygo’s opening was undoubtedly a clash for the system after a three -minute opening, with the Brazilian who exploded behind and ending his left foot “weaker” in a ruthless manner.
There was more funding than the winning effort of Brahim and subtlety, not to mention the capacity of Madrid to work on the space for the left flank, of his work in the Athleti Box, for BEFUDDLE Jose Gimenez, who created the opening.
However, the selection of the goals was Igualada d’Alvarez. The Argentine was an obstructed runner all night, with the aim of exploiting the space that Madrid surrendered on the channels. He was very safe for Camavinga this time, but the striker maintained his brand hunting challenge before impressive Bernabeu with a goal that will certainly make a large number of prominent rollers.
This was a night that saw that Madrid struggled for control. Its start to the game was excellent, and the experienced athletic apparently folded in the middle of the heat of the Bernabeu on a great night of the Champions League.
However, after Rodrigo de Paul broke the counterparts of the hosts for the first time and slipped Alvarez behind, a sense of calm suddenly left the visitors. The first intensity of Madrid was reduced and Simeone’s side stated impressive control from the 20 -minute mark to half the time. In fact, there was no change after half the time and the people at home began to be restless.
Athleti enjoyed his capital rivals’ house, and there was a feeling that they would return to the game after Brahim restored the advantage of Madrid. However, Carlo Ancelotti deployed his horn after the consequences of the contest firmly in favor of the hosts.
Luka Modric can still hang with children at the age of 39, and his 28 -minute cameo served as another reminder of his timeless brightness. 50 Passes attempted, 50 passed. Everyone calmed down, dominated athleti’s roughness without the ball, and relieved the tension inside the Bernabeu. 90 minutes on nights like these may be beyond him, but their influence rarely does not feel.
It seemed that Simeone was throwing in the towel and happy to leave with a 2-1 defeat after the talisman Antoine Griezmann changed to the defender Robin Le Normand with only less than 20 minutes. However, its typical closurers soon entered the strip when Athleti tried a trademark.
This time they could not design the necessary time, but a one -goal deficit means that this tie is kept in balance.
Madrid will have in Bellingham next week, and his career will make the difference, but so will a multitude of metropolitan raucosa with his fierce rival fierce coming to the city. Athleti had lost only one of the previous seven derbis before the first trip on Tuesday, and Madrid has twice won in the new field in its rivals capital since it opened in 2017.
Simeone’s side passed a 1-0 deficit from the first stage to overlook an excellent inter-16 team last season, and while Madrid is so difficult to shake in this competition, Athleti is also able to produce a magic of voodoo under the lights.
