The Atlético substitutes gave a good account of the Elche substitutes and the team advanced without too much trouble against the Copa del Rey quarterfinals after 90 therapeutic minutes for some of the bench’s regular tenants, starting with the Norwegian Sorloth, who continues to respond with goals to the challenge that has posed Simeone, following by the Argentine goalkeeper Governmentwho even without having too much work gives off an extraordinary feeling of security, and ending with the youth squad Riquelmewho closed the scoring with a whip to the squad that gives oxygen to his delicate situation in the team.
He Cholo He shook the shaker to give the starters a rest and barely left a poorly counted handful on the field. Quite a bet that was unexpectedly replicated by his colleague on the bench, who He also dispensed with his most valuable footballers. In the exchange of blows, as was soon seen, the fresh red and white troops were much more effective than the Elche troops and the combat was even more unequal than initially anticipated.
To Atlético The game opened up like a melon after seven minutes. in his first approach to the goal of San Roman. Dibay Sorloth lost his mark after a cross Llorente which did not reach in the first instance Correa and the Norwegian, alone in the area, hit the shot and sent a message to his coach, who did not give him a single minute last Sunday against Osasuna.
The 0-1 score made the League leader’s job much easier because it forced Elche to take a step forward and leave more space than they had planned. That’s where the Englishman moved like a fish in water. Gallagher, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to play for once in your true position. Under his leadership the team dominated the match and it didn’t take long to resolve it. First Correa threatened, but it did not come to fruition, and after 28 minutes the sentence came. Diaby was wrong again, now committing an innocent penalty against Linoand Sorloth did not forgive from eleven meters.
With more than an hour of the game ahead Simeone would have turned off the switch at that very moment, but since that was impossible, what he did was order his players to minimize their efforts and arrive safely at the stroke of midnight. Thus the end of the first part was reached without further alterations, a moment that Cholo took advantage to reserve his scorer for better occasions and send Marcos Llorente up.
Elche returned from the locker room determined to be epic, but the attack lasted five minutes, just the time it remained. Nico Fernandez on the field. The Argentine earned the second yellow card in a tackle on Riquleme and placed a tombstone that was impossible to lift over his team’s grave. From there it was also about minimizing the blow as much as possible. He didn’t have much luck.
In a very favorable scenario Riquelme did not want to miss the opportunity to make merits and scored the third goal at 61 minutes with a whiplash that San Román did not reach just a few moments after By Paul will relieve Lino. Then Reinildo He sent Gallagher to the bench, with all the fish sold, and Julián and Lemar finished the gamewho needs minutes like the shipwrecked man who cries out for a life preserver, although for the Frenchman it does not seem that any boat is within reach to help him.
Lemar was close to the goal in a left-footed shot that San Román took. He lacked the dose of fortune that Julián did have shortly after, who found a rebound in the area that was candy. The “spider” devoured the prey that had been given to him and he scored the fourth goal, much celebrated on the sideline by a Simeone dressed in a tracksuit while Eder Sarabia, At his side, he watched in horror as there was still more than a quarter of an hour left to play.
Luckily for the former assistant Setien At Barça there were no more alterations on the scoreboard, which They were left with a 0-4 which is a win, but not a humiliationand that leaves the new record for athletic victories at 15. This same week you will have the opportunity to fight for number 16, this Saturday in Leganés, but there are still several days left for that.
