Atlético suffered its second defeat in this Champions League, this time at the Metropolitano, by falling tonight against Lille, who came back in the second half with a very controversial second penalty goal. The French team had already beaten Real Madrid last day, and also on a penalty. The defeat complicates the classification of the colchoneros who in the last game had received a beating at the hands of Benfica in Lisbon (4-0).
Simeone was braver than other days and started his three forwards: Julián Álvarez, Sorloth and Griezmann. The game turned against him very soon. Already in the eighth minute Julián Álvarez scored by taking advantage of a mistake by defender Ousmane Touré, who gave up a ball without seeing that the Argentine striker was there, who brought out his quality and defined perfectly with a hit to the long post.
Wasted opportunities
Sorloth was very unsuccessful
The first part was practically a monologue from Atlético. Sorloth had three clear chances to increase the score and failed to make any of them. José María Giménez was not successful either because in a header with a goal mark he ran into a save from Chevalier, a goalkeeper with great reflexes. Lille only got their nails in at the very end with a shot from Zhegrova that went high.
At Lille, Bruno Genesio introduced a change for the second half. He put Diakité on for Touré, who in addition to having given away the goal had a yellow card.
It was immediately seen that the game was being played at a more intense pace and was more back and forth. As so many times, Atlético did not mind having less of the ball because by taking a step back they had more meters to launch the counterattack with Rodrigo De Paul and Gallagher, their two most dynamic midfielders, and Griezmann moving between the lines.
The last half hour
Lille dominates
At the hour mark, Lille achieved the tie. Zhegrova looked for the shooting angle from the top of the area and fired a shot that poisoned Oblak after being deflected a little higher by Giménez’s head. Simeone didn’t think about it and put Correa in for the ill-advised Sorloth, who was very unsuccessful last night.
The controversy came in the 73rd minute in a penalty that seemed to have been taken by Benjamin André and not by Koke, but which the Italian referee Guida and the VAR maintained and converted into a 1-2 score by Jonathan David.
Simeone made a triple substitution and Atlético went all out for the tie. First Lino and then Gio Simeone were close to scoring. However, everything was clouded for Atlético in the 88th minute when David’s shot tripped Reinildo and confused Oblak for the final 1-3. Atlético will have to make amends a lot, with a bag of goals against. Seven in the last two games.
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