2024-02-29 23:14:03
Atlético de Madrid visited San Mamés, a stadium full of Basque fans, around more than 52,000 peoplebeing this attendance record, watching the duel that decided the second finalist of the Copa del Rey. The red and white club came out with the one of the gala except for Savic who replaced Giménez due to injury and Correa who came in for Griezmann, also due to injury. In Athletic, unlike the first leg, Nico Williams on the wing, and De Marcos on the side and Iñigo Lekue on the other due to the injury of Yuri Berchiche.
The start of the match was given by Atlético de Madrid, serving from the center, and generating the first attacks of the match, the first shot of the match came from Lino’s boots that went directly into the hands of Agirrezabala. Along with another of Beautiful Mario who finished off a cross with his head and came out low so that the goalkeeper could catch it again without problems. Diego Pablo Simeone entered the game strongly to try for an early equalizer.
The first goal of the match came from the hand of Iñaki Williams after a great play by his brother Nico, who, playing deep on the left wing, sent a cross into the area that with a very strong right foot scored the first in the 13th minute of the match.
The Colchonero club did not collapse and kept trying, however they did not get any shots on goal and Athletic managed to defend the plays well with very good forward pressure, until almost reaching the 30th minute. Nico Williams He took a shot that went away from Jan Oblak’s goal and got there thanks to his brother who tried to return the assist for the previous goal.
Minutes later, unfortunately, the match had to be stopped suddenly, because there was a fan around sixty years old who fainted, and fortunately the stadium’s health care team was able to be transferred with regained consciousness to the hospital.
Athletic after another great play on the right lane in which Iñaki was galloping to reach the area and give a ball in the small area to his brother so that with just putting his foot he could score the second in his favor at will.
The first half concluded with Athletic being the team that ended with possession of the match, Athletic reached the midpoint of the match with the score in its favor and with very prominent names as were the Williams brothers and the midfielder Sancet. At Atlético de Madrid the player who stood out was Samuel Linus being the deepest of the red and white team in those first 45′ minutes.
Marcos Llorente. Source: Atlético de Madrid in ‘X’
The second half took a while to resume due to another fainting of a fan in the stands. The second half began with great force from Athletic, who went straight to the attack after the center kick. Atleti, on the other hand, looked subdued when entering the field without changes in the XI that could have been necessary to seek the comeback.
The first dangerous plays came from the hands of the locals, a shot from Nico that Oblak blocked without any problems. They generated another play a few minutes later, this time it was caused by a counterattack that left Nico in a one-two duel, in which it almost did not end in a goal because the pass he gave to his teammate Sancet who I send the ball to the stands.
During the next ten minutes, Athletic managed to cool down the game to find a break due to the effort given in the first half. The goal that sealed the tie would come in the 61st minute after a bad clearance by Oblak that did not send it where it should and Guruzeta hunted down the rebound to make it 3-0 (4-0) in the overall tie.
After the goal, ‘Cholo’ decided to make his fourth change, with Koke being the one chosen, already thinking about resting his players for the rest of the games. The match continued with Atlético de Madrid trying to score the goal of honor, with several shots, but few of them being effective, while the Athletic fans shouted and celebrated their passage to the final on April 6 in Seville.
The clearest for Atleti in the 82nd minute, with a shot from outside the area by Riquelme and which Julen saved very well. The game was coming to an end with few real dangerous chances for Athletic and with feint attempts to raise the head of Simeone’s team. The referee added three minutes of stoppage time in which the former Atleti player almost had a chance, Raul Garcia.
The match ended tragically for Atleti with a result overall 4-0a match in which It had little and nothing to do with the first tripespecially with that second part of the Metropolitano.
Nico Williams. Fuente: ‘X’
Technical details of the meeting
Athletic Club (4-2-3-1): Julen Agirrezabala, De Marcos, Vivian, Paredes, Lekue, Galarreta, Beñat, Iñaki, Sancet, Nico, Cruzeta.
Banns: Muniain, Galarreta (40′), Lekue (60′), De Marcos (74′).
Changes: Dani García (Galarreta 68′), Unai Gómez and Berenguer (Sancet, Iñaki 80′), Yeray and Raul Garcia (Guruzeta and De Marcos 89′)
Atlético de Madrid (5-3-2): Oblak, Lino, Hermoso, Witsel, Savic, Molina, Llorente, Koke, De Paul, Correa, Morata.
Banns: Beautiful (28′).
Changes: Reinildo, Barrios and Memphis (Hermoso, Molina, Correa 54′), Koke (Saúl 65′), Riquelme (Lino 72′).
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