Griezmann rescues Atlético and works the miracle

The Athletic he worked the miracle. When the situation was worst, with the Port overturned in his area and without having generated danger or a feeling of being able to win the game, he appeared Antoine Griezmann, the franchise man of this team in the Champions. The little Prince caught a fumble and dunk it to lead the way to the quarterfinals and then served an assist to Correa to seal the classification.

No soul or areas

There was a time when Athletic from Simeone It was second to none in the areas. In his own, with goalkeepers who won games like Courteous and cloud. In the rival, with hungry scorers like Griezmann, Torres, Costa O Luis Suarez. But today in their squad there is more foot than spirit, which added to the march of workers of the ball as Good night, Saul O Augusto Fernandez, has changed the physiognomy of Atleti to make it a civil servant team and without forcefulness in the areas. Losing the defensive identity and the stuck up. Without a trace of cholismo until today.

On Porto Simeone insisted on the three centrals (Vrasljko-Kondogbia-Beautiful) to make the velvet of your wardrobe profitable (De Paul, Koke, Lemar, Llorente, Carrasco, Griezmann ..). Cholo He is still obsessed with placing his most unbalanced players as lanes, Llorente and Carrasco, which places them miles from the area. And to that is added that Boil is melted and From Paul so far he has been an inconsequential player.

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To make matters worse, after twelve minutes he retired injured Luis Suarez, who adds a goal in twelve Champions League games with Atlético. At 21 Griezmann forgave a monumental play of Carrasco. From then on the Port it grew and wiped out the mattresses from the field. cloud saved a goal from Luis Dias when the game was as rough as it was open. In half an hour bad news came from Milan, where the Italians scored, which left Porto out of Champions and to Athletic from Europe. He ended the first half with an own shot from Lemar that almost beat Oblak. Bad athletic sensations because they neither showed football nor heart. Something unthinkable in a Simeone team.

Griezmann, to the rescue

The second part began even more disturbingly, after Taremi and Luis Dias they had several occasions. Too many setbacks were beginning to appear for Atlético, which invited us to think that the miracle was approaching. And the minute 56 came. A corner in the local area ended at the feet of Griezmann, which this time he did not forgive. The Frenchman scored his fourth goal in the Champions League, of the five they had for the rojiblancos. Seconds later Liverpool made the comeback in Milan. Now yes, Atlético, with very little, was in the round of 16.

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He was able to sentence the game Cunha, after a huge play. They were the best minutes of those of Simeone, who played as one more the party in the band. To those of Cholo it was worth them with a draw in Milan, with which they had margin because those of Klopp they won. But the tricky part of the job was keeping the lead on the scoreboard at Do Dragao, where Porto was worth the victory to qualify.

At 67 minutes the situation became more complicated with a direct red to Carrasco, for engaging with a rival. A naivety of the Belgian who corrected the attacked, Wendell, doing the same to an athletic, with the same result. Two expulsions and an indecent row between the benches that showed the state of excitement of the two teams. The game was stopped and spaces appeared behind the red cards. From the goal of GriezmannLittle was played and Atlético did not suffer. Correa was able to score in the foreground to seal the victory. But he did it the second time, when a race of Antoine ended with an assist to the Argentine, who scored the second and certified the pass to the crossover phase. From Paul He crowned the work with the third after fighting a ball that ended up nailing in the net. As in Cádiz, the rojiblancos let loose after scoring the goal. They defended with sufficiency in the second half and ended up beating a Porto that fell apart like a sugar. The last goal of Oliveira penalty, was useless for the Portuguese.

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