Race report & 3 hosts as hosts earn the night of amazing goals

Real Madrid has 2-1 to protect in the second leg of the Champions League 16 draw against Atletico Madrid.

The owners finished the battle of excellent goals on Tuesday night, with Brahim Diaz, who was in the team again in the absence of Jude Bellingham, proving the winner of the match in a tight case that threw both ways.

While he was defeated, Diego Simeone will be pleased with a single goal deficit as they host the return leg in eight days.

How did the game unfold

There was a expectation of a pre-aga for a tight relationship with these two sides to know each other very well. However, the hosts threatened to shift this narrative of the kind of occasion that usually expresses their most powerful form.

Within four minutes, Real Madrid was ahead. A fabulous Federico Valverde crossing behind the Javi Galan Rodrygo set, and the Brazilian – playing to the right – hit the left back for the rhythm, cuts in Clement Langlet and pierced an emphatic left -wing attempt beyond Jan Oblak.

The already fervent Bernabeu uploaded its wilderness and Rodrygo seemed to make a galan mockery. The wing came behind the experienced defender again a few minutes after his brilliant opener, but Atleti’s man did enough to overcome the Madrid scorer without giving a sentence.

Visitors were nowhere in the opening for 20 minutes, as Simeone tried to instill calm. Atleti was frantic in his possession and succumbs over and over again to the opposite pressure of Madrid. However, they finally settled and began to find their groove. Occupation sequences increased in length and their own durability without the ball allowed the feeling of suffocation to surround Los Blancos.

Their increased threat came to the forefront of Julian Alvarez, who escaped Eduardo Camavinga’s Clutches under the left before releasing a localization to balance Thibaut Courtois to balance.

Atleti then checked the first half, as the once strong hosts struggled to combine the transition and combat the issues caused by Samuel Lino’s positions between the lines.

There was no shift to the dynamic after the reboot, but Madrid once again found himself in front of the game. The whistles had greeted the Carlo Ancelotti side in the first minutes of the second half, but their mood shifted after Brahim broke in the Atleti box to work a little space before making an effort to pass Oblak 2-1.

Antoine Griezmann forced Courtois on smart savings shortly after Brahim’s goal, but Madrid, after Luka Modric entered Fray, began to enjoy the best game of the game from the opening exchange. However, both teams were limited to the last third until the end of the competition. Madrid had an excellent opportunity to score a third in the interruption time, but the sluggish coupling of Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior could not be combined to supply the hosts with a larger pillow.

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Madrid has long been determined by moments and moments in the Champions League. On Tuesday night, two excellent sequences of their game helped win.

Jan Oblak was not a busy boy at all, but twice got the ball from his net, desperately popping up in an attempt to prevent two excellent goals. Rodrygo’s opener was undoubtedly a shock to the system after a lukewarm opening of three minutes, with the Brazilian exploding back and ending his “weaker” left foot so ruthlessly.

There was more sophistication, Brahim’s victory and subtlety – not to mention Madrid’s ability to work on the space under the left side – of his work in the Atleti box to hit Jose Gimenez who created the opening was huge.

However, the choice of goals was Alvarez’s equalizer. The Argentine was a runner all night, with the aim of exploiting the Madrid area that was delivered to the canals. He was well -focused on Camavinga on this occasion, but the striker kept the Lunging Challenge brand before beating Bernabeu with a goal that would undoubtedly make many cylinders.

This was a night that saw Madrid’s fight for control. Its beginning in the game was great and I understand Atletico seemingly folded into Bernabeu’s heat on a long night of the Champions League.

However, after Rodrigo de Paul first broke the host’s counterattack and slipped Alvarez back, a sense of calm suddenly demonstrated over the visitors. Madrid’s early tension fell and Simeone’s side claimed impressive control from the 20 -minute signal to half. In fact, there was no change after the half time, and the crowd began to get restless.

Atleti enjoyed himself at their opponents’ home and there was a feeling that they would come back to the game, after Brahim restored Madrid’s advantage. However, Carlo Ancelotti developed Trump’s card after the subsequent, which turned the competition firmly to the host’s favor.

Luka Modric can still hang with the children at 39, and his 28 -minute kamo served as another reminder of his timeless brilliance. 50 passes tried, 50 passages were completed. Everyone himself, tamed Atleti’s durability without the ball and reduced the tension within Bernabeu. 90 minutes in nights like these may be beyond him, but his influence is very rarely not noticeable.

It seems that Simeone is throwing the towel and happy to have left with a 2-1 defeat after changing Talisman Antoine Griezmann for defender Robin Le Normand with just 20 minutes. However, his typical Klitites soon entered Fray, as Atleti tried a trademark of the rally.

They were unable to form the required moment this time, but a deficit of a goal means that this balance remains in balance.

Madrid will have Bellingham back next week and its current power will make the difference, but also a rough metropolitano crowd with their most intense opponents coming to the city. Atleti had lost only one of the previous seven Derbies before Tuesday’s first leg, and Madrid have only won twice in the new territory of their opponents since it opened in 2017.

Simeone’s side surpassed a 1-0 deficit from the first leg to bypass an excellent team among the 16-year-old last season, and while Madrid is always so difficult to avoid in this competition, Atleti is also able to produce some magic Voodoo under the lights.

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