Atlético host second leg next Wednesday
This will be decided 14km east of here in eight days’ time. On a night that lacked a little thunder but had three fantastic goals, Rodrygo, Julián Alvarez and Brahim Díaz all stepping inside to bend the ball beyond outstretched fingers and into the far corner, the city’s fifth European derby delivered a victory forbut no definitive conclusion. Atlético will host the second leg next Wednesday, and they will go into an occasion likely to be a lot more explosive than this with hope.
Appeared. Simeone was calling for his players to keep their heads, and in fact that was what they did. When Alvarez was released up the right and crossed for Samuel Lino on 15 minutes, it was the first time Atlético had found a way out, but not the last. Soon, led by Rodrigo De Paul, they had taken hold.
Simeone responded with Conor Gallagher and Nahuel Molina and then, with 20 minutes to go, sent on the centre-back Robin Le Normand for Griezmann. That felt like a statement of intent, a response to how the game had started to tilt: with a second leg to come and Real stirring now, taking a hold, it was more important to not concede another than to seek an equaliser.
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