Quote from: Iranus on Today at 09:00:20 AM

Quote from: Cryptmuster on Today at 08:44:20 AM

These were two completely different halves, the first was very cautious for both teams and Atletico was lucky to score a goal at the end of the half, despite the fact that the teams made only one shot on target. The second half was different, Barcelona needed to score and so they tried to attack more, but they missed again, and it was very good that Lewandowski was able to score a quick goal two minutes after Barcelona missed the second goal, this gave them hope and strength to attack further. The ending was crazy, Atletico's defense simply fell apart.

Barcelona's overall performance was better than Atletico madrid's from the beginning of the match. But Atletico Madrid was lucky. So they were able to take a 1-0 lead at the end of the first half. And in the 70th minute, Sorloth's goal gave Atletico a 2-0 lead. But Lewa scored just 2 minutes later. And in the 78th minute, TOrres' goal equalized the match. After the 70 th minute, Atletico played defensively and Barcelona tried to find the weaknesses in Atletico's defense. Barcelona succeeded . For this, Torres and Yamal must be thanked. These two young Barcelona players played excellently.

I wouldn't say Barcelona got lucky, it would be more correct to say that Flick finally outplayed Simeone. Last match Barcelona led 4:2 and on 83 minutes Flick put away Rafinha and Pedri and after that Atletico scored 2 more goals and equalized. This time Flick left Rafinha until the end and it was him who made the goal on 98 minutes for Ferran Torres, and Ferran Torres was released by Flick instead of Olmo and this substitution worked, because Ferran Torres scored 2 goals. Lewandowski scored a great first goal that helped Barça and the decision not to change him, despite not a good first half, also worked. Flick proved to everyone that he is truly a top coach and now Barcelona are fighting not only to win La Liga, but also to win the Champions League.

Simeone still great coach, because he is squeezing the maximum out of the squad he has and if not for the excellent transfer of Julian Alvarez, Atletico would be even harder to fight in Lal liga and in Champions league.