Torres gives three golden points to Atletico
Atlético de Madrid won in Villarreal with a goal from Fernando Torres a quarter of an hour from the end of the match. Our guys played a very serious defensive match with several chances to scoring.
Villarreal: Sergio Asenjo (Juan Carlos, 85’); Mario, Eric Bailly, Víctor Ruiz, Jokic; Rukavina (Moi Gómez, 46’), Pina, Trigueros, Jaume Costa; Campbell and Gerard Moreno (Fran Sol, 85’).
Atlético de Madrid: Oblak; Juanfran, Miranda, Godín, Gámez; Arda Turan (Saúl, 62’), Tiago, Gabi (Raúl García, 69’), Koke; Griezmann and Mandžukić (Fernando Torres, 62’).
Referee: González González (Castile and Leon Committee). Booked the visiting Gabi (41’), Gámez (55’), Miranda (87’) and Juanfran (88’).
GOAL:
0-1. 74’. Fernando Torres takes advantage of a mistake of Eric Bailly, speeds away, dribbles Asenjo and cuts two defenders to score into an empty net.
Atlético de Madrid and Villarreal, took the field of El Madrigal without complexes. The local team, despite their numerous injuries, battled from minute 1, but met with an immeasurable Oblak. Atlético’s goalkeeper saved everything that came to him in the first half. Especially in two yellow chances with a great save from Oblak to a header by Víctor Ruiz and Godin who saved the following shot of Gerard Moreno.
But the best chances were ours. Without taking into account the penalty of Jokic to Griezmann which was not called by the referee on 13 minutes. A minute later, Asenjo saved his team in a shot from the French striker, Arda headed shaving the post on 20’ and Koke hit the woodwork on 29 minutes.
In the second half, the game was more evened out, with a Villarreal that wanted to look harder for the red and white goal but Simeone’s team was solid and confident. The first two changes, Saul and Torres, for Arda and Mandžukić respectively, were going to give freshen up our guys and make the fixture take a turn. Fernando Torres fought and stole a ball in front of Eric Bailly and scored a goal that was worth heaps to Atlético de Madrid. There was a quarter of an hour left for the end and our team knew how to manage the advantage to return to Madrid with three golden points.