2022-02-16
bottom Levante won 1-0 in the field of Atletico Madrid (5th) this Wednesday in a late match of matchday 21 of the Spanish League, deepening the doubts of the rojiblanco team that receives Manchester United in the Champions League next week.
A goal by Gonzalo Melero (54) gave three golden points for the aspirations of the Levante to leave the bottom of the leaderboard that it still occupies.
See: The table of positions of the League of Spain
The rojiblanco team, who had beaten Getafe 4-3 last weekend, was unable to maintain the winning path in a game in which Atlético suffered pressure from the visitors.
“We played a bad game,” the Argentine coach, Diego Simeone, acknowledged emphatically after the game.
After this result, the Athletic remains with 39 points, tied with Barcelona, fourth and that closes the Champions zone.
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“We missed a nice opportunity to put ourselves in a good position in the League and we will have to make a double effort for what happened today”, added Simeone.
The reigning league champion again showed problems in defense, which complicate his aspirations to get into the top four of the championship.
The Athletic The opposing goal was not disturbed in the first half, while Levante was able to take the lead in a one-on-one that Jorge de Frutos lost to goalkeeper Jan Oblak (22).
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The Levante He pressed the rojiblanco game, quickly recovering the ball to plant himself for speed in the opposite area.
The Athleticmade difficult by the rival’s good positioning, tried to reach the wings to put balls into the area in search of Matheus Cunha and Ángel Correa, who were the starting forwards.
Luis Suárez and Joao Félix, who watched the game start from the bench, came on in the second half, coinciding with an improvement in Atlético’s game, which advanced lines and put more intensity into the pressure.
In the best moment of Athleticthe Levante He found the goal when Gonzalo Melero took advantage of a pass into the area to release a shot that Oblak managed to touch, without preventing it from sneaking into his goal (53).
Behind on the scoreboard, Simeone moved the bench in search of more mordant, but he found Levante well placed and successful in defense.
Specialist in coming back games in the last minutes, the Athletic he overturned in the last minutes on the opposite goal, but without managing to move the marker.
The Athletic remains in fifth league position, fifteen points behind the leader Real Madrid, and tied on 39 points with Barcelona, fourth classified.
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