DBasia.news – Atletico Madrid’s good pace has not stopped. The latest, they defeated Deportivo Alaves with a score of 2-1 in the continued Spanish LaLiga, Sunday (28/6) AM.
Playing at Estadio Wanda Metropolitano, Atletico played the 32nd matchday by playing their best strength including young star, Joao Felix.
In the first half Diego Simeone’s players appeared dominant, Opta noted that they were able to release eight kicks in the opening 45 minutes, even though none of them lead to a goal.
Even so, the efficiency of Atletico’s game began to be seen in the second half, with Saul Niguez opening the scoreboard for his team in the 59th minute after goring a pass which was released by Kieran Trippier.
The goal became Saul’s 28th for Atletico in all competitions. Interestingly, 20 of them are the opening goal of the match, or if the average is reached by 71.4 percent.
After opening the scoreboard, Los Rojiblancos added his lead 14 minutes later through Diego Costa’s penalty kick, which in this match was included in the 57th minute to replace Angel Correa.
Apart from Costa who calmly netted the ball into the goal, Marcos Llorente who won the penalty deserved appreciation.
So far the former Real Madrid has contributed six goals in his last six appearances for Atletico in all competitions, precisely he contributed three goals and three assists.
With the conditions already leading to two balls, the home team were actually complacent and was penalized during injury time. The attacker Joselu, who came in to replace former Barcelona player, Aleix Vidal, broke into Jan Oblak’s goal in the 93rd minute but was unable to prevent his team from losing.
Thanks to this result, Atletico have now been unbeaten in their last 12 matches in all competitions. They recorded eight wins and four draws during the impressive pace.
Following these additional three points, Atletico did not move from third placewith a collection of 58 points from 32 matches that have been undertaken. Meanwhile, the defeat has made Alaves slump to 15th place as they only summarized 35 points. They are only nine points away from Mallorca, who inhabit the relegation zone.