Atlético was playing half their lives against Liverpool and the rojiblancos grew up before the challenge and showed the path that the first team wants to follow tonight. If the draw against Milan had left the sensation of losing two capital points In search of the round of 16, the rojiblanco team took their best version against the English to equal the four points of the reds, but with a better goal difference than it places the mattresses in a second place, which at the moment is the great objective.
Liverpool started dominating the ball, but not the game, as it was followed to the letter the designs of Ricardo Ortega and Fernando Torres, for whom every encounter against Liverpool is special. The English moved the ball from one side to the other without depth and without being able to break lines while the rojiblanco team He was waiting crouching to steal and go out looking for the speed of Salim and Vilán and the game behind Carlos Martín’s back.
Of course, it was the English who had the first great chance of the match showing that they also feel very comfortable playing against. A loss of Barrios turned into poison with the entry of Liverpool from the right wing, but Musialowski’s extremely dangerous shot at the penalty spot ran into Iturbe’s gloves, always attentive and feline. The goalkeeper is one of the names marked in red in the red-and-white quarry for years.
However, from that early occasion, Liverpool could barely find the dangerous Woltman and It was Atlético who began to stretch and perceive the weaknesses of the visiting rear. Sergio Díez gave depth from the right side, Salim began to come into play and Carlos Martín did everything well except scoring the goal. It was the striker who had the first two occasions, the second of them saved by Davies in a good intervention, until Gismera captured the superiority that was beginning to be seen on the grass with a cross shot who touched the stick before entering the goal.
A wood that did not bring the same fortune to Pablo Barrios a few minutes later. The midfielder had sought the second with a great left foot, but on that occasion the same stick that had conceded Gismera’s goal determined that the ball was repelled out. In between, Atlético had more than deserved to extend their lead and Carlos Martínez and Curras had been about to score that second goal.
Liverpool went into halftime knocked out, but very much alive because of the short score. And the changes slightly revitalized the English team, which increased the intensity of the pressure and was able to make the rojiblancos players uncomfortable again in the first minutes, although without generating danger and always bumping into the defensive wall, with Ibrahima leading the way. And Atlético was again finding the spaces as the minutes went by, with a hyperactive Curras and again trying to find a Sergio Díez appearing almost as a winger.
In an exit to the counterattack, Salim was able to run meters ahead, dribble and score that second goal that Atlético had deserved so much. The Madrilenian of Moroccan origin, a team he defends in the lower categories, scored his third goal in the competition (75% of the team’s goals) and once again he showed those good feelings that he has been showing throughout the tournament. A goal that Liverpool could not respond to and that gives life to Atlético in the search for the eighth. The mattress team left a great performance, was far superior to the rival and achieved his first win in the European tournament to show that he can be a protagonist in the Youth League despite the size of the lower categories that it faces in a group of maximum toughness.
ABSTRACT
Athletic: Iturbe, Sergio Díez, Boñar, Ibrahima, David Navarro (Lucas Pérez, 73 ‘), Barrios, Gismera, Curras (Alberto Moreno, 62’), Salim (Ricoy, 80 ‘), Carlos Martín and Vilán (Valdera, 73’) .
Liverpool: Davies, Bradley, Quansah, Koumetio, Beck, Morton, Stephenson, Norris, Balagizi, Woltman, and Musialowski.
Goals: 1-0, Gismera (min 26); 2-0, Salim (min 71).
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