After the noise and bad vibes of the preceding days, football gave way to a derby without winner, a draw that is possibly the result that comes better to Barcelona because it squeezes the league. Madrid maintained the leadership in a match also not exempt from controversy, like all Madrid’s derbies.
There were two very different parts. In the first, Atlétic He outraged the stadium and will give for many minutes of toads and snakes in Real Madrid TV.
The first part
Atlético something better
In that part, Atlético played his game more than the one who wanted to play Madrid. The mattresses seemed better deployed and were more recognizable, with a less conservative mood than the usual in Simeone.
In Madrid almost nothing went well. Defensively something better than lately because he has the defense of butter. Asencio and Tchouaméni did not suffer too much but the problem for whites is that Tchouaméni, however well he plays, it is inevitable that he ends it because he does not have the foundations of a defense. To that is added in those of Ancelotti something fundamental. If this team is strong, it is especially for its front and as in Cornellá none of those above had its day against a defense as disciplined and rocky as that of Atlético.
The Once were expected in the two teams. In Atlético Pablo Barrios he took the controls, confirming that Koke is no longer for the great matches. In Madrid the novelty was more tactical than in the alignment because Vinícius spent much of the game playing through the center, forming an attacker with Mbappé. The left wing went to a long side, Fran García, which is difficult for him to put a good center.
The disposition had the perverse effect of making Rodrygo have to play on the right, which significantly decreased his weight in the game seeing the faces with Galán.
The controversy
A very debatable penalty of Tchouaméni A Lino
The first part did not have a clear dominator because although Madrid had something else the ball played it horizontally, without creating a single occasion of danger except a hospitalized of wine that the Brazilian ended with a deviant shot. In the 45 minutes Oblak was a real luxury spectator. More or less was the case of Courtois because Atlético came something more but either with danger and the Belgian did not have to be used.
The key play came in the 33rd minute. Samu Lino was battered in the Madrid area. In principle, no one warned anything but after intervening the Var Soto grade went to the monitor and after several minutes of consultation, he chose to be a penalty of stomp of Tchouaméni to linen. The maximum penalty is the first to whistle against whites in this league in which they have ten in favor. Julián Alvarez launched placed and overcame Courtois stretch.
The second part, which began without change of players, had nothing to do with the first. Madrid came out with the air of playing life, with a dynamism that had not been seen until then. He scored in 50 after a play by Rodrygo and a bitten mbappé auction that was enough.
The second part
Madrid, much better
The 1-1 gave way to a Madrid that literally ate Atlético. For many minutes, Simeone’s team was a ship that caught shaking by a Madrid that failed occasion after occasion.
Bellingham immediately had the clearest but finished off the crossbar. Then the lack of fineness of the white strikers made the rest. Simeone rebuilt the team with three blows and stopped the tide a bit.
In Madrid the changes took too much, something that always happens to Ancelotti and the team was losing bellows in the final stretch. When Modric and Camavinga entered it was too late. Brahim entered 87, when the tie seemed inevitable.
The 1-1 does not make anyone happy, but it does not imply a huge tantrum for any. It was already the result of the first round in the Metropolitan.
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