A goal of Beautiful Mario in the 89th minute he saved the three points for Atlético de Madrid against Getafe (4-3), in a game in which the rojiblanco team had ten points for almost the entire second half due to the expulsion for Straight red by Felipe Monteiror, and after a crazy first half with six goals.
In the 88th minute, outnumbered, when he had already done everything wrong that can be done wrong in a game, on the brink of the abyss from which he constantly peeks, after waste a 2-0 in favor in the first halfAtlético de Madrid resurfaced from nowhere to beat Getafe, amidst the agony, with a goal from Mario Hermoso who rescued a drifting team and unleashed the apotheosis of the Wanda Metropolitano, but he does not hide the number of problems that his set.
In the current situation of Atlético almost everything is incomprehensible. He himself is his greatest enemy. There are examples throughout the season, but none as expressive as the first half this Saturday; an unclassifiable nonsense that leaves the rojiblanco team in a bad place. More than his coach, Diego Simeone, always in the spotlight, his footballers, who gave a lesson on how to throw two goals away.
His wound this course is still there. He has used many resources, but none of them heals a team that is driven to the brink of the abyss. in each match, in each set, in each minute of each game, faced with a dead end: no matter how much his coach insists in each session, no matter how hard the players try to correct each mistake, then comes the competition, which It has nothing to do with it.
In the oppressive feeling with which Atlético plays, there are shocking data for him, such as the fact that he has received two or more goals in nine of his last eleven official games. He didn’t even need Getafe (he had only managed one goal so far in his previous 20 duels with Simeone) the entire game to do it. The first half was enough for him to beat Oblak three times, with the disbelief that that amount supposes in a match that the rojiblanco team won 2-0 in 26 minutes… and in which he missed a penalty, in the 9th minute , trapped by David Soria to Luis Suárez.
Not even that comes out to Atlético, that a scorer as renowned as the Uruguayan number ‘9’ is right from eleven meters. The Getafe goalkeeper guessed it, whose defense appeared in the game on sale, with unusual facilities that promoted the quick local advantage: in the 18th minute, Correa, the smartest of all, burst through several rivals to hunt down Djene’s horrific clearance; in the 26, Cunha finished the best play in months for his teambecause Correa gave it all the meaning in Llorente’s unchecking.
A comfortable win? Quite the contrary. Because the dedicated Getafe of the first minutes realized with a little encouragement and some presence in the opposite field that Atlético is a bargain for anyone who intends to score a goal. As soon as he dug a little into the repetitive defects of his opponent, he found a mine from which to extract three goals in just thirteen minutes with little repertoire.
The 2-1, in the 29th minute, arose from a failed shot by Jankto that Borja Mayoral became an assist due to the neglect of Reinildo, debuting as a starter this Saturday; 2-2 and 2-3 in two hands, the first by Cunha and the second by Lemar, which were two separate penalties executed in an incontestable way by Enes Unal, both to the same placethe two to the opposite side to which Jan Oblak threw himself.
In minute 42, Atlético fell 2-3. Never seen before, with everything the team has taught this season, thank goodness they have Correa, who represents the only lifesaver to cling to in the current drift of the ‘rojiblanco’ team. It was he who lightened at rest the tremendous weight that grips his group, at 3-3, when he caught a header at the far post that Luis Suárez failed to connect.
The top scorer for this Atlético is Correa. Neither Luis Suárez nor Joao Félix nor Antoine Griezmann, still out, nor Matheus Cunha, who also contributed a goal (the aforementioned 2-0), but above all he gives many other things to the rojiblanco team, for his speed, for his will, for its fine conduction, for its verticality. In the nonsense that is the game as a whole today, the Argentine attacker is the only one who feeds the hope of the reaction of Simeone’s group, which is in permanent alarm.
At the break, equal errors, equal goals and a second half to play and to suffer, in the case of Atlético, who insisted on making survival even more complicated.
First because Savic was unable to control or clear a ball that did not seem complex at all in midfield, then because the only way that Felipe understood to compete for the divided ball was a disproportionate plate against Arambarri.
An indisputable expulsion, another blow for the local team and an invitation for the ambition of Getafewhich fell short when he had to take the step forward that the duel required.
It did not. And not only did he lose the opportunity to beat Simeone’s Atlético for the first time, which is nothing like what it was the entire previous decade or what it should be to aspire, at least, to play the phase next season of Champions League groups. But he left him alive. And that is an unforgivable concession in the Wanda Metropolitano, as he verified in the 88th minute when Mario Hermoso missed the first shot, not the second, to beat Russian roulette.
Datasheet:
4 – Atletico Madrid: Oblak; Llorente, Savic, Felipe, Reinildo; Correa (Vrsaljko, m. 73), Koke, Kondogbia (De Paul, m. 73), Lemar (Herrera, m. 91+); Cunha (Joao Félix, d. 73) and Luis Suárez.
3 – Getafe: David Soria; Damián Suárez, Djene, Mitrovic (Mata, m. 75), Cuenca, Jankto (Silva, m. 80); Óscar (Villar, d. 80), Arambarri, Maksimovic; Borja Mayoral and Enes Unal (Okay Yokuslu, d. 54).
Goals: 1-0, m. 18: Strap. 2-0, m. 26: Cunha. 2-1, m. 29: Major. 2-2, m. 36: Enes Unal, from a penalty. 2-3, m. 42: Enes Unal, from a penalty. 3-3, m. 49+: Strap. 4-3, m. 88: Beautiful.
Referee: From Burgos Bengoetxea (Basque City). He expelled Felipe Monteiro, from Atlético de Madrid, with a direct red card in the 58th minute for a tackle on Arambarri. He yellow carded the locals Savic (m. 3), Lecomte (m. 14), Koke (m. 45) and Suárez (m. 48+) and the visitors Djene (m. 15), Maksimovic (m. 20 ) and Arambarri (d. 21).
Incidents: Match corresponding to the twenty-fourth day of LaLiga Santander, played at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium before 49,375 spectators.
