Real Madrid y Atlético de Madrid five qualifying series played in the Champions League and always celebrated the ‘meringues’. A new duel between Madrid’s now happens through the round of 16 and, if those led by Diego Pablo Simeone They have chances of twisting history, it is because they have Julián Álvareza player who can fight for the title of best player on the planet, an attacker who will undoubtedly be postulated for him Golden Ball. In the first leg, in the Santiago Bernabéuwas Victory for the premises 2-1with a goal to the angle of the Cordoba, which marked partial equality. Thus, everything is open facing Wednesday 12 at the stadium Wanda Metropolitan.
He is angry Julian, what’s doubt. In the previous game, the ESPN chain chronicler interviewed several Real Madrid fans and All agreed that Álvarez was the great concern. And the spider right a while later when He left Bernabéu silently with a right -wing goal to the left angle of the giant Courtois.
“I had had two moves before and I could not accommodate to kick. Luckily I hooked her very well, it was a goal “said Álvarez, who became the second Argentine to mark the Real at Bernabéu in the Champions Playoff (The other: Lionel Messi). He added: “I am happy for the personal, but the most important thing is to prepare for the return. You have to have faith, work and humility. We are going to get it forward. ”
The party started in the worst way for those led by Diego Simeone Because after four minutes the place won after scoring a simple goal, those who bother the coaches. Cholo has already feared the worst when Fede Valverde put the long pass to Rodrygowho beat his back to the left side Javier Galán. What followed was a goal of the 24 -year -old Brazilian end: He trimmed twice for the center and nailed the left stick of Jan Oblak.
Thus, everything thought for Simeone, who surely devised the game to go out of counterattack, the most dangerous weapon of the mattress this season collapsed this season (scored 15 goals in that way). But the visit settled well to the new geography and for that Much had to see Rodrigo de Paul’s intelligencewho understood what the process asked. The steering wheel of the ‘scaloneta’ began erratic and was accommodating with the passing of the minutes: He asked them all and put it down the sole. And thus the Atlético grew, gathering simple passes and advancing in block. The Real Armando 4-4-2 with Vinicius and Mbappé as a spear tips was folded. The roles were invested and the visit brought the weight of the game. The same, to tie it would need the genius of the born in Calchín.
Little can be said about Julian’s goal because The images are powerful and multiply on social networks. What maybe some did not see was the wear and tear that he did in the previous minutes. When things did not go to Atlético, the spider did what he knows how to do: press, insist, recover, run. All the good that happens to Julian is deserved for the effort he does. Álvarez is the most altruistic footballer in the world.
In the complement he continued to play the visit better: he handled the ball away from Oblak’s arch. But Madrid in the Champions League in a predator on the prowl: You don’t need to play well to celebrate. Sometimes, in addition, he is lucky. Because Brahim Díaz It almost falls inside the area and that stumble became an amague that dislodged to the Uruguayan José Giménez, so that the meringue steering wheel is run for the right and defines the distant stick. 9 minutes were going.
Photo: EFE/Juanjo Martín.That goal was a mazozo for Atlético, who lost course. Nor was Simeone fine in the changes because it worsened to the team. He entered Modric at the premises, he had effect and Madrid began to have the ball more. And even had a couple of dangerous chances to stretch the score. In one, Marcos Llorente drowned Vinicius, who only had to touch the network after Mbappé passed.
“We had control of the game, but we didn’t keep it. And they marked at fair times. We go with anger because the goals could have avoided them. Now we have to be together to get it forward, ”Julián closed.