In the Metropolitan, Angel Correa scored the comeback goal Atletico Madrid, who achieved a great 3-1 victory over Gironato remain in the Champions zone on date 31 The league.
The Argentine forward scored the partial 2-1 for Simeone’s team, which started 0-1 against the Catalan team, by LaLiga EPA
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With one eye on the UEFA Champions League quarter-final rematch against Borussia Dortmund in Germany, Diego Simeone rotated a bit in the mattress team and the Argentine striker was there from the start.
After 4 minutes, he surprised Artem Dovbyk with the goal for the partial victory of the visitor and just, half an hour later, from a penalty, Antoine Griezmann found the equalizer.
In the sixth minute of stoppage time of the first stage, Nahuel Molina started the attackwhich intercepted the rival defense, Álvaro Morata He went to press high on the clearance, and threw the center into the area, where Correa beat Daley Blind, Miguel Gutiérrez and goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga at the top to make it 2-1 in favor of Atlético Madrid, just before the break.
It was Angelito’s seventh goal, that he has barely had to start six times in LaLiga, and entered another 18.
Already in the second stage, just five minutes from returning to the playing field, A cross into the area by Rodrigo De Paul was poorly rejected and it was left to Griezmann to seal his double.
Just after 3-1, Dovbyk found the ball alone in the six-yard box, but finished poorly. In any case, as happened during the week in the Champions League, Atlético was ready to score and did not make it: they missed three very clear chances with Molina, Rodrigo Riquelme and Morata, who crashed into a post.
And already in the final 20 minutes, Simeone began to think about Dortmund and exhausted the changes.
With this victory, the Colchonero team reached 61 points in fourth place, four below Girona.