[Sport] Atlético finishes what Betis starts

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The Atlético-Betis in recent years are games that Betis almost always starts better and that Atlético almost always ends better. One plays them and another wins them. One goes from more to less, another from less to more. And as much does the Metropolitan as the Villamarín, regardless of the logical exceptions. The Heliopolitan is one of those benches in which Simeone has already seen too many faces, almost all smiling before, almost all cariacontecidos later. Well, he doesn't see those anymore, because he goes out shot at the end of the show. That there will be another soon, such a day as Tuesday.

The visiting pressure was a trap for the Cholo squad; the local one, a joke for Pellegrini's. Between the fact that it was easy to remove and that it was difficult to remove it, the ball was verdiblanca to abusive extremes during the first half. Fekir, for example, was not cleaned even by calling the guards. That domain, everything has to be written, was more apparent than effective: the game was played in the vicinity of the red-and-white area, but the occasions as such were limited to a header from Carvalho and a distant left-foot from the French, both with a response from Oblak. There was no one to specify, and that is often regretted.

The fact is that Atlético also had a pair there: an action in which Correa was ready and a failure of the aforementioned Carvalho allowed two deflected shots from Luis Suárez, who in the second of those sets started in the race with much more advantage of the that he had when he rushed in the resolution: that the centrals were close together like that seemed a lot about his current physical state ... although what happened later happened. Which scored right at the end. We will arrive. For the rest, Trippier suffered before Tello, even a cassock was carried away; Otherwise, Beautiful was moving out of place again; otherwise Torreira and Lemar lost too many balls ... otherwise only Llorente's electricity left a positive note from the perspective of his troops.

Mateu had one of those games where he seems to have bet with himself about how long it will take to get a card. The first was for Luis Suárez on the brink of rest now, a decision by the referee that allows two readings. The first, that he took it out earlier for protesting than for the stick syrup that others had prescribed, Felipe on one side and Montoya on the other for example. The second, that from now on they will show the tip with some ease the cardboard that they had been denied so much before. That the one with the whistle did not prolong the first act was good news for Atlético, things as they are.

Although from that rojiblanca perspective the resumption was even better: center kick, first action, throw-in, Hermoso puts Llorente short ... and goal. Half a minute On the 14th he threw speed there, to take it long and break Mandi for speed, and subtlety, to take advantage of the fact that Bravo had neglected what was supposed to be his stick. Betis reacted almost immediately, with a heads-up in which Oblak beat Sanabria, but the latter was a local barrage that cannot be explained without paying attention to the decisions that Simeone had made in the break, covered in a way by the dazzling start.

Because Herrera and Carrasco starred in two of the three successive occasions that their team had. Mexican and Belgian had entered for refreshment, effectively through Torreira and Lemar. Simeone soon exhausted his patience this time, the fact is that one and the other ran into the post and the goalkeeper respectively. Beautiful, from less to more, also made the green and white goal shine. By then Joao was also on the grass and shortly afterwards there would be Pellegrini's first movement, double by making room for Loren and Joaquín, significant by delaying Canales towards the double pivot.

Carrasco was going to be in all of them, those that were and those that were not. It caused the expulsion of Montoya (in action reviewed by technology as it was the last defense), he crashed with Bravo in a candy that Joao offered him to travel the middle field absolutely alone and, unfortunately for his interests and those of his own, he ended injured on a particularly demanding stretch of course. The short result maintained a hope, the Betic, which would remain at that: in hope. If he had lost the last year, playing with one more, he was also going to lose this one, playing with one less. At the last minute Suarez made another notch in his pistol. The 'unocerista' movement deeply regrets this.