Fortune smiles on a good Atlético in Mestalla

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• Atlético. Lemar's 'return', Simeone's emotion and Carrasco's push: "Luck also counts"

Atlético did everything except the goal.

He took over the ball, the rhythm of the game and the chances, but he won the Mestalla with a goal at the opponent's own door.

There could not have been a worse punishment for a Valencia very hard not to unravel.

And some moments of the game was enough.

team has not grown enough

to look into the eyes of a rival who, even without a goal, still seems to be from another league.

[Narration and statistics]

From the start, the rojiblancos sought a domain that was comfortable and absolute, at least up to the edge of the area, because then they ran into the gigantic figure of

.

Without Joao Félix in the eleven,

hatched.

The first warning was launched by adjusting the ball to the post after partnering with

, who had already put the Valencian goalkeeper to the test.

sought

, free of any pressure, to pitch to his team, but Simeone's idea of ​​taking advantage of

as a full back did not work.

He had plenty of defenses.

Atlético did not deploy enough to unsettle a Valencia that, when

connected, was capable of disturbing flashes.

Like

volley

that

Oblak flying or a distant shot from

.

Without the ball, the Valencian players responded with a heart and leg strike.

Nor did Atlético demand much more from them.

Orphan of a 9, the absolute mattress control was not reflected on the scoreboard and gave life to the rival, who was about to take advantage of a bad clearance from Lemar to a center from Wass, amended by Oblak.

The Frenchman took revenge by releasing a left foot that forced Jaume to shine, the goal that stops the most in the League.

The impulse of Joao and Carrasco

Giménez looked for the goal and it went high.

Correa also had his chance, but ran into the goalkeeper.

Eight clear missed chances forced

to rethink his rotations after the break.

Can't Atlético live without the talent of

and the depth that

brings

?

Maybe not, because only with them he got closer to the goal of Valencia.

The first, on the way back from the dressing room, was again held by Lemar, shielded by Llorente, who smashed it into Wass's body.

Without success Correa, it was time for Vitolo and to look for more lung with

.

While Simeone took her jewels out of the drawer, Gracia could only be entrusted to players who only have a place in the eleven when there are no more: Mangala, Correia, Sobrino, with the exception of a Gameiro who has long wandered lost.

The scene did not change much and continued to be painted red and white.

Almost impossible to have more possession.

Almost impossible to show less

in attack.

Dirty work was also done by Valencia.

Carrasco's escape from the double winger that Gracia invented with Wass and Correia, became a low center for

that Lato did not see and, at the far post, gave victory to the rojiblancos, who continue to add records -25 games without lose- and threatening the leadership of the Royal Society.

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