Iñaki Dufour |
Madrid (EFE) .- There is no limit for Antoine Griezmann, whose fantastic moment decides each game, almost always unstoppable and withering for Cádiz, whom he defeated in two moments, with the 1-0 score in just one minute and 4 seconds and with the 2-0 before half an hour.
Some goals that unleashed the rout for Atlético de Madrid (5-1), with their umpteenth differential demonstration to surpass Real Madrid.
To the initial sound of Griezmann – the total player who marks this moment of the course in LaLiga Santander, also the footballer who in certain high-ranking sectors of the club considered expendable in summer or the attacker relegated after half an hour in the first seven games – and with the rest goals from Morata, Carrasco (he scored the first penalty in favor of this entire League) and Nahuel Molina, Atlético is already second in the standings.
Five shocks remain.
Atlético de Madrid striker Álvaro Morata (i) disputes possession with Cádiz CF midfielder Rubén Alcaraz (r) during the match corresponding to day 33 of LaLiga Santander that faced both teams on Wednesday at the Cívitas Metropolitano stadium in La capital.EFE/Sergio Pérez
Nine victories in ten days
On matchday 18, they were thirteen points behind Real Madrid, second then. At minute 33, 15 later, Simeone’s team advanced him by one point.
In the last eight appointments, he has added nine points more than his ‘eternal’ rival to feed an incentive that neither existed nor imagined before: finishing second in this League, only behind Barcelona, who no longer have time to reach.
In context, with the undoubted fiasco that was the entire first stage, at full speed outside where the entire course should be, in direct competition to be champion, and eliminated from all European tournaments, animate the last stage, make up the course and touches up Atlético’s note, always on the podium in each of Simeone’s entire campaigns.
Everything is marked by the result. There is no other in football. It is the maxim that the Argentine coach himself has always defended, who has gone back to the past, the 2021-22 League champion, to meet again with the present and the future. His nine victories in the last ten rounds of the championship and his only defeat in the 17 most recent duels in this competition are an indisputable answer, whatever the game, that he enhances it even more now.
He did not even notice the loss of up to five players for the night duel this Wednesday at the Metropolitan (despite being a weekday, both this Wednesday and Thursday, 42,023 spectators gathered in the rojiblanco territory) of which all can be considered headlines in an eleven type of the Argentine coach (Jan Oblak, Memphis Depay, Marcos Llorente, Stefan Savic and Reinildo Mandava). It’s trust. They are the results.
Without options for Cádiz
In one minute and four seconds, he was already leading 1-0, when Griezmann finished off as if it were easy, one more day in the office, the back pass that Yannick Carrasco gave him. Later, it is true that Cádiz reappeared, with a deflected shot by Álvaro Negredo, one of the nine substitutions with which Sergio González appeared at the Metropolitano, and a goal disallowed for offside by Momo Mbaye. As much as that Atlético no longer allowed him more margin.
Minute 27: Griezmann, Lemar, Griezmann… And goal. The 2-0. The thirteenth goal in this League for the ‘Little Prince’, which adds another two assists. To put it in value, Atlético has scored 60 goals in total. In 41 percent, the French international was indispensable, who sentenced the match with more than an hour to play. The rojiblanco team did not fully demand, which chained enough chances to thrash at halftime. He did it later.
He did not do it before because Ledesma came across Morata. Or because the forward crashed into the crosshead a shot that should have been a goal later. In any case, the result did not even appear to be risky. Cádiz could not be seen through Grbic’s goal, the substitute for the third game followed by Jan Oblak. He did not intervene in the entire first part.
Among the defensive facilities that Cádiz granted, Atlético increased the difference even more at the beginning of the second half. The pass was from Hermoso, who had all the time he wanted to think inside the area, and Morata’s solitary shot, even more alone, to score his third goal in the last three days. He hugged Reguilón, like the other day against Valladolid. The rojiblanco team has 13 goals in three games.
The yellow team never had a real option in the Metropolitan. His first victory on rojiblanco terrain is still impossible. It happened to Mallorca, Almería, Sevilla, Valencia… To each of the last seven visitors, including him, to a field that has recovered its strength from him…
First penalty in favor of the season
And he celebrated with euphoria the first penalty of the season in favor of Atlético, due to a handball by Alcaraz that the referee, Soto Grado, reviewed to mark it as a maximum penalty. The first of this entire League for the rojiblanco team. Carrasco transformed it into the same goal in which he was eliminated from the Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen. Last October 27. Six months later, Atlético’s mutation is formidable. There is no comparison.
There was still room for Lozano’s great goal, with a marvelous right hand, but also for Nahuel Molina’s immediate response, in the next action, with the 5-1. He hadn’t started for a long time, since Griezmann had established the difference. Atlético is already second. Unthinkable not long ago. Insufficient in its initial ambition.
– Datasheet:
5 – Atletico Madrid: Grbic; Molina (Doherty, m. 86), Witsel, Giménez, Hermoso, Carrasco (Correa, m. 64); De Paul, Koke, Lemar (Reguilón, m. 71); Griezmann, Morata (Barrios, m. 70).
1 – Cadiz: Ledesma; Iza, Mere, Momo Mbaye, Arzamendia; Ivan Alejo (De la Rosa, m. 72), Alcaraz, Diarra (Lozano, m. 46), Alex Fernandez (Jose Mari, m. 61), Bongonda; Black (Chris Ramos, m. 61).
Goals: 1-0, m. 2: Griezmann. 2-0, m. 27: Griezmann. 3-0, m. 49: Purple. 4-0, m. 57: Carrasco, penalty. 4-1, m. 72: Lozano. 5-1, m. 73: Nahuel Molina.
Referee: Sixth Grade (C. Castellanoleones). He warned locals Carrasco (m. 20), Lemar (m. 36) and Molina (m. 45) and visitors Diarra (m. 18) and Alejo (m. 38) with yellow cards.
Incidents: match corresponding to the thirty-third day of LaLiga Santander, played at the Cívitas Metropolitano stadium in front of 42,023 spectators.