Real Madrid has a 2-1 lead to protect against Atletico Madrid in the second leg of her Champions League round of 16 draws.
The owners scolded a battle of outstanding goals on Tuesday evening, with Brahim Diaz, who was back in the team in Jude Bellingham’s absence, and prove the match winner on a close matter that swung in both directions.
During the defeat, Diego Simeone will be satisfied with a single target deficit if you organize your backbone in eight days.
How the game unfolds
Before the game, a close matter awaited with these two sides, which know each other too well. However, the hosts threatened to change this narrative about the type of occasion that typically manifests its strongest form.
Real Madrid was in front within four minutes. A beautiful Federico Valverde Pass behind Javi Galan put Rodrygo away, and the Brazilian who played to the right hit the left -back for speed, cut into Clement Lenglet and drilled a emphatic effort with left, beyond Jan Oblak.
The already passionate Bernabeu increased his wildness, and Rodrygo seemed to intend to mock a ridicule over Galan. The wing player got back behind the experienced defender a few minutes after his brilliant opener, but the Atleti man did almost enough to wipe Madrid’s goal scorer without giving away a punishment.
The visitors were nowhere in the first 20 minutes when Simeone tried to convey calm. Atleti was always in possession and kept succumbing to Madrid’s back pressure. However, they finally settled and found their groove. Ownership sequences grew in length, and their own persistence without ball made it possible to envelop Los Blancos.
Her reinforced threat came to the fore in any style about Julian Alvarez, who escaped Eduardo Camavavinga’s claws on the left before unleashing a top -end effort via Thibaut Courtois to compensate for.
Atleti then controlled the rest of the first half, since the once assertive hosts had difficulty combining the transition and fighting the problems, the Samuel Lino positioning between the lines caused.
After the restart, there was no shift in the dynamic, but Madrid was again before the game. Whistles had greeted Carlo Ancelotti’s side in the first few minutes of the second half, but replaced her mood after Brahim oscillated in the Atleti box to make a little space before rolling past Oblak to make it 2-1.
Antoine Griezmann forced Courtois an intelligent rescue shortly after Brahim’s Go-Head goal, but Madrid, after Luka Modric entered the fight, he began to enjoy her best period of the game since opening exchanges. However, both teams were limited in the last third until the end of the competition. Madrid had an excellent chance to achieve a third in added time, but the muffled pairing by Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior could not combine to supply the hosts with a larger pillow.
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Madrid has long been defined by moments and momentum in the Champions League. On Tuesday evening, two outstanding game sequences helped you to win.
Jan Oblak was not a busy boy at all, but he chose the ball twice from his network after diving desperately to prevent two excellent goals. The opener from Rodrygo was undoubtedly a shock for the system after three minutes, with the Brazilian burst behind and ended his “weaker” left foot so ruthlessly.
There were more finesse that Brahim’s profit efforts and the subtlety – not to mention Madrid’s ability to work on the space in the left flank – to bring about his work in the Atleti Box in order to realize Jose Genneez, who created the opening, was enormous.
However, the selection of the goals was Alvarez ‘Equalizer. The Argentinian was all night over a stubborn runner who aimed to take advantage of the Madrid area devoted to the channels. On this occasion he was well persecuted by Camavavinga, but the striker held his trademark lunging challenge before switching the Bernabeu with a target that will undoubtedly achieve many highlight roles.
This was a night when Madrid fought for control for control. Their starting into the game was excellent, and the experienced Atletico was apparently folding together in the heat of the Bernabeus in a large Champions League night.
After Rodrigo de Paul broke the back pressure of the hosts for the first time and Alvarez pushed behind him, a feeling of calm suddenly penetrated the visitors. Madrid’s early intensity, and Simeone’s team claimed an impressive control from the 20-minute brand until half-time. In fact, there was no change after half -time, and the home amount became restless.
Atleti enjoyed herself in the house of her capital rivals, and there was a feeling that they came back into play after Brahim Madrid’s advantage restored. However, Carlo Ancelotti subsequently started his Trump card, which tended the competition in the favor of the hosts.
Luka Modric can still hang with the children at 39, and his 28-minute cameo served as a further memory of his timeless brilliance. 50 passes tries to complete 50 passports. He calmed everyone, tamed Atletis robustness without the ball and left the tension in the Bernabeu. 90 minutes on such nights may go beyond him, but his influence is very rarely not to be felt.
It seemed that Simeone threw the towel and happy to go with a 2-1 defeat after exchanging talisman Antoine Griezmann with defender Robin Le Normand with only less than 20 minutes. However, his typical conclusions soon joined the fray when Atleti tried a trademark of late rally.
This time they could not make the necessary moment, but a single goal deficit means that this tie remains in balance.
Madrid will have Bellingham back next week, and his running force will make a difference, but also a rough metropolitano amount, with its violent rivals coming into the city. Atleti had lost only one of the previous seven derbies before only winning twice on Tuesday since its opening in 2017 on the new rival of the capital.
Simeone’s team overcame a 1-0 deficit from the first leg to avoid an excellent intermediate team in the 16th round of last season, and while Madrid is so difficult to shake in this competition, Atleti is also able to produce some voodoo magic among the lights.