NEven on Easter Sunday, unfortunately, he could return Doña Marcela, but Atlético saw fit to play in the name of Correa’s deceased mother to win a victory and dedicate it to his teammate, this time lost to the cause after being hero just days ago. A triumph that seemed simple with a two-goal advantage and numerical superiority, but which came after the suffocation caused by a missile from Fran García and by a commendable arreón from Rayo. Triumph, on the other hand, which puts second place within a two-point shot. Match by match.
At 20 minutes there was little to put in your mouth, at 25 the game seemed resolved. Nothing here, nothing there… and from 0-0 to 0-2. The two actions are born from set pieces, but, as the devil is always in the details, it turns out that the first one corresponded to Rayo. A diagonal free kick into the area by the hand of Rodrigo de Paul turned into a counter that went through Carrasco and Griezmann before Álvaro García ended up enabling Nahuel in the desire for Morata not to participate. The Argentinian kept it clean and tight to celebrate his first goal with Atlético, displaying the shirt of his teammate and compatriot.
And in which the Lightning licked the first wound A corner kick arrived for the visiting squad to recover the old luck of the launch and shot. It is easier to write it than to do it, of course, but there were times not so far away when Atlético did it with some frequency. Now it is not the case… until it is again. Carrasco put it and Hermoso rose above Balliu, in which Dimitrievski doubted, to double the advantage acquired. Vallecas did not believe it, because it is worth insisting that until the events broke out, there did not seem to be any way out.
The inevitable local response did not translate into overwhelming dominance, but it did result in Oblak having to show mitts before intermission. First against Raúl de Tomas, but above all against Óscar Valentín just on the edge of 45 minutes. The aforementioned Álvaro had also been around the goal, he had also flirted with the De Paul penalty, even though Comesaña was crazy about music, so, also taking into account a certain indifference from Simeone’s team, perhaps unaccustomed to managing from a distance at home, the score seemed excessive. To another dog with that bone, Don Diego Pablo would think.
What Iraola thought was that she had to get her hands on the matter. It didn’t take long for the coach from the strip to throw a triple change that included Trejo, Falcao and Camello, almost nothing to the apparatus, but he did not count on the expulsion of Lejeune without time for the newcomers to settle. It was for knocking down Morata being the last defender after Griezmann had drawn a marvel, but the set would have been less controversial if the one with the whistle drew the red directly, instead of that corrected yellow from technology. Be that as it may, the result was added ten against eleven.
Rayo still looked for the goal, but did almost more so that Atlético himself continued to play. Because each counter he missed was a football thread to hold on to, Morata’s first, Lemar’s later, Griezmann’s or Barrios’ own, so that Simeone despaired from his domain in which he also introduced pieces. El Cholo knows them all and indeed Fran García agreed with him with his left foot. But Rayo did not arrive on time, who in any case left the game with his boots on. Rest in peace, Mrs. Marcela, there is her son’s team. In threes.
