Definitely, this Champions League has too much filler.
It is evident day by day: the days go by and we accept the abyss that opens between some, the majestic groups, and others, the modest blocks, almost intruders in these parts, something logical since in this new format there are 36 teams.
The UEFA bureaucrats will excuse me, but teams like Sturm Graz, Young Boys or Slovan Bratislava have very little role in a championship of this magnitude, and the same happens in the case of Sparta Prague, a squad that would have a hard time keeping the category, for example, in the EA Sports League, the Spanish league.
We notice this reality with a clear eye, as soon as the referee starts the match and Simeone’s Atlético is deployed, a seasoned block, backed by decades of experience in the Champions League (Koke and Griezmann this Tuesday reached one hundred games in the tournament ): the colchoneros control the ball, advance from behind, in a flash they overcome the Czechs’ first line of pressure and from there a wide, green esplanade opens up for them. depopulated, a carpet on which De Paul, Gallagher and Julián Álvarez progress, all of them searching for Sorloth, the beacon that illuminates them: Sparta does not have a single resource to contain that burden, the die is cast.
Matches like this help Atlético gain experience. He proposes a kind of training session with the public, an exercise in which they have a good time, improve their statistics, score goals (yesterday was their best win of the season) and return home with a little money under their arm, not so bad neither.
The colchoneros have now accumulated six consecutive victories, including the League, Cup and Champions League (on the previous day they defeated PSG at the Parc des Princes, 1-2), and much of the credit falls on the state of grace of Julián Álvarez, who This time he scored the first and third (Correa added two more; Llorente and Griezmann have also scored) and he has already accumulated nine goals so far this season: the Argentine was impeccable in the execution of the first, a poisoned free-kick, and was perfected later, by artfully completing a combination with Giuliano Simeone, the son of mister.
Step by step, Atlético is emerging in Europe.
And Sparta?
“Expendable,” as John Rambo said of himself.
Sparta, 1 – Atlético, 6
Technical sheet
Sparta Prague: Vindahi, Vitik, Panák, Ross, Wiesner, Laçi, Kairinen, Rynes, Krasniqi, Albion Rrahmani and Haraslin
Atlético de Madrid: Oblak, Giuliano, Giménez, Lenglet, Galán, Llorente, De Paul, Gallagher, Barrios, Julián Alvarez and Sorloth.
Referee: Makkelie
Goals: Julian Álvarez (0-1), Marcos Llorente (0-2), Julian Álvarez (0-3), Griezmann (0-4), Correa (0-5).
Cards: Pesek was booked by Sparta Prague, while Pablo Barrios was booked by Atlético de Madrid.
Stadium: Epet Arena.
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