Buts: Álvarez (52e90e) pour l’Atlético // Hincapié (45e+1) for Bayer Red card: Barrios (25e) pour l’Atlético // Hincapié (76e) for Bayer
Cholism, what else ?
In a match that it did not have in its hands, Atlético managed to redo the cherry and defeat Bayer Leverkusen at home (2-1) at the end of the suspense.
However, from the outset, the tone is set by Xabi Alonso’s troops: give nothing to this Atlético team which will even add an additional difficulty after 25 minutes of play. Author of a tackle by -behind not pretty pretty on Nordi Mukiele, Pablo Barrios is finally excluded after viewing the VAR by Davide Massa. Leverkusen, who had previously thought of opening the score through Grimaldo, in vain, will wait until the very end of the first period to turn their domination into an advantage on the scoreboard: Mukiele, again, crosses perfectly at the far post for Piero Hincapié who deceives Jan Oblak with his head (0-1, 45e).
-Returning from the locker room, Atlético did not give up and even equalized from the start: ultra-quick revival of Atlético, Antoine Griezmann perfectly launched Julian Álvarez who resisted the return of the German rearguard and equalized a nice cross shot (1-1, 52e). The match has turned, the Madrid public senses it, and the exclusion of the scorer Hincapié for a second yellow on Giuliano Simeone a quarter of an hour from time is a harbinger of things to come. The rest, here it is: Ángel Correa somehow manages to slip a ball into the area to Álvarez, who clears Matěj Kovář to explode the Wanda Metropolitano (2-1, 90e). This is how Atlético finds itself, provisionally after seven days, third in this 2024-2025 Champions League.
The Parc des Princes appreciated in Europe
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