Atletico makes noise, Madrid nuts

The Atletico fans filled the Vicente Calderon to attend a déjà vu that took twelve years and repeated: Atletico Madrid is unable to beat Real Madrid. The match moved into the expected parameters: the red and whites put the white noise and nuts. José Mourinho applied one day less of rest, a pivot more, leaving Di Maria on the bench for Lass, forming a trivote with Alonso and Khedira, with Germany moving across the lane from eight remarkably fulfilling the role of box to box that asks for your technician. Quique Sanchez Flores repeated lineup for the first time in the tournament and the core formed by Smith and James was unable to impose the rocky trivote visitor (Oh, and played Casillas, despite threats on his penultimate mourned Mou ...).

The first ten minutes were marked by three white men: the first Lass, which came last lap, made four fouls before the tenth minute and escaped censure repetition not really know why, the second leading was Khedira, who appeared very plugged into the two areas and that, precisely out assistance for the third protagonist, Karim Benzema, cogiera him back to the athletic center and define a perfect to give to their own advantage. The door Madrid shot three times in ten minutes and allowed the goal to deepen the role that coach wanted to play last night: close right back and go against the ailing the CR7, the intermittent enrachado Özil and Benzema.

Atletico was as it is. Carried by a transfer policy incomprehensible to Atletico would be impossible to master the game from midfield up to hire someone who actually devoted to it. James and Mario were no match for the town white midfield, either quantitatively or qualitatively. Elias played, but not really know what position or with what intention, and Reyes sought the entire width of the second line a way to connect with the two above, Forlan and Aguero, who are seen in increasingly face the less motivated they are on this team. Quique was unable to exploit the weakest area of Madrid, the right wing in which it was only planted Ramos, who sometimes received help from those of Khedira and other Özil (the latter more positional than anything else), but Atletico failed to avail this imbalance by three players converge on his left flank to find an overwhelming superiority and Luis Filipe even appeared from behind everything that I could have done.

After the goal, the Calderon, a stadium capable of the best and worst, courage instilled in his players and Atletico went up. Exceeded shortly after the half hour, Atleti had already released five times Casillas's goal, a goalkeeper who receives an average of one shot every 43 minutes (and only conceded four in the last fifteen games). But Iker had one of his nights and stopped everything he was told Reyes, Godin and Agüero. By contrast, the Madrid only needed a good Marcelo admitted by the Brazilian left to found a pass from death to the German Özil sent to the network with embarrassing ease. The 0-2 on the scoreboard woke up in the Atlético more resignation than defiance, and against that little can be done ...

In the second half Quique Koke put in place of the late Elijah, but failed to change the script. Atletico door shot twice in the first eight minutes, but then diluted until Aguero scored the honor to four minutes remaining. These first shots and both Kun half hour passed in which Madrid was spent to defend their advantage, saving their powder for counterattacks, and Atletico was the same as always in these cases: willful, with feeling of dynamite on the front but without a quarterback who is able to lead, and saying no notable, but decently offensively.

During that half hour where he spent little or nothing, a part of the Atletico fans are dedicated to entertain seriously insulting his opponent. The usual and drop dead and xenophobic Cristiano Marcelo you were sung with a monkey insistenciand crystal clarity, making it incredible that the referee not been reflected in the minutes (at least those of a racist). Those thirty minutes were also used to see how he risked his physical Cristiano to find a goal not found: between the ego of the player and the permissiveness of their coach, Ronaldo remained in the field even though he was seen limping something and Finally, after finishing the game, the relevant tests have revealed that CR7 has fallen on his injured hamstring in his left leg that kept him sidelined two to three weeks. With the game well on track, Cristiano well and quietly began to be replaced but as we speculated in this post on the minutes of garbage , these whimsical risks can go very expensive. As soon, is expected to reach just to the first leg quarter-final of the Champions League with Tottenham.

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