Atlético de Madrid suffers a painful defeat against the Benfica (4-0)with goals from Aktürkoglu, Di María, Bah y Kökçüin a match in which Simeone’s team was very blurred and unfortunate, also causing two penalties against.
What starts badly…
Benfica began by warning Atlético de Madrid with a Say Maria very electric inside. It was precisely the Argentine who took a corner in the 7th minute that Tomás Araújo finished very close to the goal line, towering above all the red-and-white defenders, but his shot brought out the best version of A cloud who masterfully repelled the ball.
It seemed that with very little, Benfica forced Atlético to defend far behind and shortly after that great chance of Araújo, Akturkoglu He gave a strong wake-up call to Simeone’s team, managing to score his fourth goal in the match for the Lisbon team. (1-0). Failed Reinildo and also Immediatelyand Atleti paid dearly for it. It was the 13th minute.
A goal that caused Simeone to become very angry. Atlético had to react, but the red and white team did not flow, and they seemed quite predictable in their game.
Llorente left injured
There were no good feelings coming from Portugal, and along with the goal, came another bad news, the muscle injury in the right thigh of Marcos Llorente. For him, he entered the field of play Nahuel Molina.
A static Atlético, without unchecking, with many difficulties and also somewhat unfocused. In the last play of the first half, the red and white miracle was performed. Not to score, but to save himself by almost divine order from a called goal. Aursnes He took a throw-in and the play caught him with the ice cream cart. Witsel and Giménez. He took the ball Say Mariathe Argentine tried with a deflected shot that fell on Pavlidisand whose shot ended up hitting the post.
Far from improving things in the second half, in the 52nd minute Giménez and Gallagher They arrived late and stepped inside the area Pavlidis. VAR review and penalty in favor of Benfica. The person in charge of throwing it away was Say Mariawho did not miss from 11 meters and put the scoreboard in the middle (2-0).
The Argentine wanted the third and was about to achieve it in a one-on-one against A cloud. It wasn’t him who achieved it, but yes Alexander Bahwhich definitively knocked out Atlético when he finished off a corner taken by Jan – Niklas Beste (3-0).
There was still time for greater celebration in Portugal, and for a greater collapse of Atlético. Reinildo committed a penalty on Amdouni and Kökçü transformed the maximum penalty.
Total and absolute disaster for Atlético, who were still able to score fifth, and a total celebration for Benfica, with a win that gives a very good image to the Portuguese and a very bad image to the Spanish.
