Atletico Madrid's standings in the Spanish Football League after the Cadiz match

The defending champion Atlético Madrid continued its revival and achieved its fourth successive victory by defeating its relegation-threatened host Cadiz 2-1 on Friday, in the opening of the twenty-eighth stage of the Spanish Football Championship.


Atlético owes its victory to its brilliant striker, Joao Felix, who opened the scoring in the third minute, before Argentine Rodrigo de Paul added the second (68), in response to the equalizer from veteran striker Alvaro Negredo (45).


The defending champion was alone in third place with 51 points, two points ahead of Barcelona, ​​before the latter's match with its guest Osasuna on Sunday.

On the other hand, Kadesh, who suffered its twelfth loss, froze at 24 points, in the eighteenth place.


Atletico returned strongly since its sudden fall against its guest, Levante, who finished last, 0-1, on February 19, to achieve four consecutive victories that allowed him to rise to third place, also taking advantage of two consecutive losses for Real Betis, the third previously, between their last match 1-3, of which Felix scored. binary.


Atlético is preparing in the best possible way for the upcoming summit next Tuesday against its host Manchester United in the second leg of the Champions League final, after a 1-1 draw at home, knowing that his goal was scored by Felix (22 years), who joined his ranks in the summer of 2019 in a record deal from Benfica for 126 million euros.


At the Wanda Metropolitano, Atletico needed 3 minutes to open the scoring thanks to Felix, after he took advantage of a mistake by Argentine goalkeeper Jeremias Ledesma to hit his right ball from a difficult angle, in his sixth goal in the league this season.


The Portuguese also scored five goals and passed two crucial balls in his last eight matches, including 4 goals in the first ten minutes in the last five in various competitions.


The referee of the match issued a direct red card in the face of Atlético Mozambican defender Renildo Mandava after a foul on Ruben Alcaras, before he retracted the disqualification after appealing to the video assistant referee (VAR) and was satisfied with a yellow card (40).


Before the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, Cadiz surprised his defending opponent with a equalizing goal after a 25-meter cross pass by Laspino on the left corridor inside the area. .


At the beginning of the second half, Atletico coach Diego Simeone made two substitutions to activate the attacking line, taking out Frenchman Antoine Griezmann and Belgian Yannick Carrasco, and inserting Uruguayan Luis Soares and Argentine Angel Correa instead (60).


The attacking players were fortunate for their coach, as after a coordinated attack and a wonderful exchange inside the area, Correa hit a strong ball that was blocked by goalkeeper Ledesma with both hands, to be followed by his compatriot De Paul in the empty net (68).


Cadiz almost equalized, but Uruguayan defender Jose Gimenes was pushed out of his line by Moroccan Oussama Idrissi after a wrong exit from Oblak (74), before the match ended with Javi Serrano being sent off five minutes after he entered as a substitute for Felix (83).

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