Atletico takes the lead with Giuliano Simeone but the Blaugrana conquer the Metropolitano thanks to Rashford and the Polish center forward
The first act of the close trilogy of clashes between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona launches the Catalans towards conquering the La Liga: at the Metropolitano Flick’s team wins 2-1 and given that Madrid lost 2-1 in Mallorca with 8 days to go the Blaugrana have a 7-point advantage over the Blancos, with the Clásico scheduled for the Camp Nou on 10 May.
athletic tournover
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Now Barça and Atletico face each other again in the Champions League quarter-finals, which took place on Wednesday at Camp Nou, and with Europe in mind, ‘Cholo’, already without the suspended Marcos Llorente and the injured Oblak, gives up several key players: Julian Alvarez, Lookman, Ruggeri and Hancko. Barcelona started well but Griezmann missed two sensational goals and in the 39th minute Giuliano gave Atletico the lead by perfectly controlling a great pass from Lenglet.
very inspired
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Lamine Yamal is very inspired and surprisingly is marked by the on-loan Juventus player Nico Gonzalez, who is many things but not a full-back scorer, and so he suffers like crazy, gets booked for an absurd ‘save’ in midfield and sent off in injury time for a foul on a thrown Lamine. At that point Barça had already hit the post with Lamine Yamal (the 28th in Liga for the Blaugrana), wasted a great opportunity with Fermín launched by the same terrible 18-year-old and equalized with Rashford after a magnificent triangle with Dani Olmo.
two debuts
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The ‘Cholo’ brought Ruggeri on and after less than a minute he got angry because the referee sent off Gerard Martin for a foul on Almada, turning the red into yellow at the VAR. Then he made their debuts with Morcillo and Taufik, with Lamine Yamal always unleashed, a wonder to behold. Musso performed two miracles on Ferran Torres but was very unlucky when in the 87th minute he somehow opposed a great right-foot shot from Cancelo with the ball squirting and hitting Lewandowski’s chest and ending up in the net. A rebound that could be worth a Liga, and in fact the Barça players celebrated the victory for a long time.
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