3-3 in Mestalla Narration and statistics
Classification Atlético, fourth with 23 points
Seven minutes to destroy 13 years of statistics. Valencia was able to undo Atlético in two blows when it could barely hold on during the previous 90s. The roar of Mestalla dwarfed the rojiblancos, asleep on the laurels of a comfortable match, with hardly any shocks that seemed impossible to escape them. Since 2008 they had never wasted an advantage like this and
José Bordalás'
team did not seem
capable of wiping it off until
Hugo Duro
appeared
to score two goals that save a point and feed the soul.
Talent has limits. Faith, strength and conviction, no. Or so it seemed. The genius was on the rojiblanco side, so Bordalás instilled in his men the survival instinct as a fundamental value, which for many minutes jumped into the air before the indomitable talent. That of
Luis Suárez
, whom Valencia allowed to live where he likes best, very close to the area, and that of
Rodrigo de Paul
,
Ángel Correa
and
Antoine Griezmann's
trident
.
Joao Félix does
not find a gap
in this eleven and a few minutes were enough to understand why.
The Argentines amassed the game until they found the crack in the reinforced concrete of the Valencian center of the field and a few others for Griezmann to take out his hat.
Valencia had taken refuge in his obsession with being small.
He sank in his field to the edge of the area and, without breaking a sweat, Atlético became the master and showed that patience was not running out.
Acceleration and 0-1
And that suffered the setback of
Kieran Trippier's
collarbone injury
. Correa tested
Jasper Cillessen
,
Gonçalo Guedes
replied
with a shot from the front, but nothing was disturbing. The moment he accelerated, he would strike. And it happened like that. De Paul stole, leaned on Correa and
Luis Suárez
offered himself to, just by placing his body, breaking
Mouctar Diakhaby
and overtaking the rojiblancos.
Griezmann was able to fatten the scoreboard with a high header at the edge of the break, from which Valencia returned more intoning but with the same problems in attack.
So many that the tie was scored by
Stefan Savic
in his own goal after a Guedes cross-shot that
Jan Oblak
could not stop
.
It was the first goal that a Bordalás team endorsed one of
Diego Simeone
and it was not even scored by its players.
The rojiblancos were enraged when they saw how a rival they had tied up was resurrecting them.
It was a mirage that a French genius killed by stealing the ball from
Uros Racic
and
Hugo Guillamón
in the face
and, from their field, rushing towards the front to score the second with a left-foot flag.
More enthusiasm than football
The third was not long.
He did
Sime Vrsaljko
to a tangle in the box.
Was already.
Atlético dusted off their sleeves, ending the job despite Valencia going with more enthusiasm than football until Bordalás was unleashed.
He deleveraged his team and provided it in attack until a center by
José Gayà
appeared in the discount,
which Hugo Duro sent to the network.
Once again, the captain and his squire on the wing, Guedes, took a foul from Griezmann almost in the corner that ended in a perfect shot from Madrid, uncovered the scoring hero who aimed at Atlético.
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