Luis Núñez-Villavearán
Updated Sunday, February 11, 2024-20:30
Bad news for Atlético. Sometimes the three points are the least important thing when you see the image of
Álvaro Morata
crying uncontrollably on the bench. Tourmalet comes to Atlético and the man from Madrid was his Pogacar. The forward had 19 goals in his best season as a rojiblanco.
Morata
was crying and Atlético with him. [Narrative and Statistics, 1-0]
Sevilla won the third duel of this season, all resolved with the same score: a goal to zero. The people of Seville had always been close, but they had never managed to complete the feat. It was a matter of mathematics.
Sometimes in football 2+2 equals four. It seems like a truism, but not all coaches understand it. Or not always on time.
Quique
is one of those who has always applied it. He arrived at
Sevilla
, took a look at the locker room, and decided that playing the ball low is very good, but that it is better to arrive quickly and score goals.
With the discovery of
Romero
and the return of
En-Nesyri
,
Sevilla
is not entangled in artifices. Bomb through the air so that the youth player and the Moroccan, received as the prodigal son returned from the Africa Cup, resolve in the first or second moves.
Every set piece was an invitation to do so. And so came the kid's first goal. After an extension by
Ocampos ,
Isaac Romero
entered
like a buffalo at the far post, winning the duel against
Koke
and sending the ball into the net and the Madrid native against the post.
The energy of the young man is a blessing, the Sevilla player who has run the most in the last four Sevilla games. He has his mistakes, like the headbutt to the dummy after a cross from
Óliver
, but he is only 23 years old. More clearly was the one that
Óliver
himself failed
after a counter perfectly conducted by the young man.
Ramos with Griezmann at a moment of the duel.CRISTINA QUICLERAFP
However, in the other corner, things were not going well for the rojiblanco counterpart. Three offsides and a resounding failure were the balance of the red and white nine until the unfortunate clash with
Soumaré
. Flying through the air and bad fall. Hands on the right knee and obvious gestures of pain. The images of
Morata on the bench while
Dr. Celada
performed the relevant tests
were not very flattering.
Upon returning from the locker room, where
Morata
had to arrive helped by the doctor, but supporting his right leg, the tables had changed. Atlético came out to kill or be killed. The day was stupid and
Memphis
is not always the forward for those types of days. The Dutchman had quite a few chances, but it is worth noting a carom that hit his tibia and his shot ended up going wide. He was less than half a meter from the goal line.
Atlético
was
striking and
Sevilla
was waiting in hiding to hunt down the rojiblancos.
Ocampos
almost managed it
behind Witsel's back, but his lead leg betrayed him and it was called offside and the Argentine's goal was disallowed. And the youth player almost repeated it in another counterattack that he led with class and, as the Atlético defense was not divided, he decided to launch a shot that got a good response from
Oblak
.
Siege
The last minutes were a huge siege. Occasions everywhere that neither
Lino
, nor
Correa
, nor
Memphis
could finish
. Atlético misses
Griezmann
a lot . The Frenchman has dressed as an assistant in the last six games, in which he has added four assists, but he has only scored one goal since he returned from the Super Cup. Little for the red and white interests.
Depending on what happens with
Morata , this
Atlético de Madrid
will need much more
to pierce the rival goals. A goal was missing against Sevilla and there were plenty of tears. A league game is the least important thing, but fourth place seems, today, like a no longer so easy goal.