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There is just one chief, not three or two, and his title is Atlético. At the final minute, the Barça discipline additionally ceased to be the standard inaccessible summit for Simeone’s crew of their unstoppable profession within the League. He cholismo He resurrects each time the requiem is sung for him, for the luck of 1 fortunate Atlético. Barça performed to win and ended up shedding virtually within the final play when the sport had been positioned within the aim of an correct Oblak.

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Iñaki Peña, Pau Cubarsí, Jules Koundé, Alejandro Balde, Iñigo Martínez, Fermín López (Dani Olmo, min. 63), Raphinha, Pedri, Marc Casadó (Eric García, min. 79), Gavi (Ferran Torres, min. 63) and Robert Lewandowski

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Jan Oblak, José María Giménez (Axel Witsel, min. 51), Clément Lenglet, Marcos Llorente (Robin Le Normand, min. 72), Javi Galán, Pablo Barrios, Conor Gallagher (Koke, min. 61), Rodrigo De Paul, Giuliano Simeone (Nahuel Molina, min. 61), Antoine Griezmann (Alexander Sørloth, min. 72) y Julian Alvarez

Goals
1-0 min. 29: Pedri. 1-1 min. 59: De Paul. 1-2 min. 95: Sörloth

Referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

yellow playing cards

Witsel (min. 53), Le Normand (min. 76), Giménez (min. 96)

Although the Blaugrana put themselves in Champions mode, simply as recognizable as after they surfed radiantly from the wave of management, all the time enlarged when dealing with essentially the most demanding challenges, they gave up within the areas, denied by the opponent and stunned in theirs with a final counterattack, as Simeone all the time preferred. No crew dominates the top of the sport higher than Atlético. Conservatism and ready rewarded Atlético in the identical method that ambition penalized Barcelona.

With Lamine absent, Flick opted for the vitality of Gavi and Fermín, very open on the left, whereas Raphinha moved to the far proper, to assault the crew with the fewest objectives scored within the League. Surprisingly, there was no place for the delicate Olmo in a crew with loads of pressure and so courageous in his departure that it required a wonderful defensive train from Atlético. The Blaugrana camped on the alternative court docket, very dynamic and intense, utilized within the stress and within the circulation of the ball, missing solely the shot to complete off their excessive quantity of play in entrance of Oblak’s aim. Simeone’s boys didn’t breathe till after the quarter of an hour, when Balde ate an extended ball behind him that Giuliano tried to play for Griezmann.

Barça wants to begin the video games effectively in order that they end higher after the fiascos skilled towards Las Palmas and Leganés. The finest Barça model was the one wherein the crew not solely pressed, ran and crossed crosses, as occurred towards Atlético, but in addition completed the performs with objectives, usually from Lewandowski. There was no option to penetrate between the middle backs Giménez and Lenglet till Pedri appeared within the space. The man from Tenerife took the ball, progressed diagonally in direction of the world, leaned on Gavi and fortuitously discovered himself dealing with Oblak’s aim. Gavi’s poor management ended up being a exact contact for Pedri. The match revolved continuous across the inside, technically beautiful, bodily unfailing, chief of Barça.

The aim calmed the thrill of the Barcelona followers, who allowed themselves a break after half an hour of nice put on and tear, and the ball handed to the toes of Atlético, who till then had been very repeat offenders within the offside calls thrown by Iñigo Martínez and Cubarsí. The Basque central defender was particularly lucid when he anticipated Julián Álvarez’s shot after a move from Galán. The Barça focus was most in protection and the deployment was aggressive, quick, with one and two touches, and clear as a result of width and depth offered by Fermín and Raphinha. The Blaugranas took a breather at half-time and Fermín didn’t get place to beat Oblak earlier than Giménez, changed by Witsel, broke down.

The change disrupted Atlético’s defensive system. The governor was Pedri. The canary was an omnipresent participant in Montjuïc. A loss that triggered a one-on-one within the open discipline between Julián Álvarez and Cubarsí, very effectively resolved by the Barça participant, was adopted by an help for Raphinha, which ended up on Oblak’s crossbar. The Blaugrana forgave and Atlético tied on a counterattack completed by De Paul after a foul rejection by Casadó. Neither the rating nor the adjustments initially altered the script of a match all the time pushed by the passion of Barça.

Although Atlético defended itself and was capable of make it 1-2 with a Barrios shot that Peña took, Lewandoski missed a aim from a move from Ferran, a shot from Olmo missed the aim by a finger and Oblack decreased Raphinha and Pedri. Montjuïc was ready for Barça’s aim, as a result of he was insistent, as a result of he was beneficiant and since he was persevering, when in a wonderful transition Sorloth scored the 1-2. Atlético, very surgical, knew maintain on and bide their time towards an imprecise Barça that may now not be defined by their objectives, however by their beneficiant and in addition inadequate play to defend the management of the League.