Suarez-Much less Atletico Silence Messi & Barca
22 November, 2020
LaLiga
Result: Atletico Madrid 1-0 FC Barcelona
Date: 21 November 2020
Venue: Wanda Metropolitano Stadium
FC Barcelona's struggles in LaLiga continued after struggling defeat to Atletico Madrid, who were without Luis Suarez on Saturday nights.
Suarez could not face his former part after he tested great for Covid-19 and he was replaced by Angel Correa in the line-up while Lionel Messi returned to the line-up for Barca, with Miralem Pjanic replacing the injured Sergio Busquets.
The visitors were on leading foot in the first stages, seeking to penetrate Atletico's defence but they were not finding the gaps.
Diego Simeone's troops were growing in the overall game midway in to the first stanza nonetheless they too weren't carving out distinct openings.
Messi came near breaking the deadlock for Blaugrana just before the break after bursting his method inside the box to handle goalkeeper Jan Oblak but his low shot was saved by the Slovenian found in a one-on-one situation.
Even so, Atletico finally snatched the lead in first-half stoppage time soon after Yannick Carrasco experienced on goal one-one-one with goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, nutmegged him and slotted the ball into a clear net from outside the box.
Ronald Koeman's males were fired up from the break and Clement Lenglet came close to equalising right before the hour-tag with a close-selection header from Messi's cross but Oblak made a great save.
The overall game was geting tight from then on, with Simeone's charges keeping their form at the back rather than giving away spaces behind the defence.
Antoine Griezmann came near levelling matters for Barca in the last eight minutes with a great angled header that was first goal-bound however the Slovenian shot-stopper pulled off another amazing conserve.
Sergi Roberto came incredibly close for Barca to salvage at least a spot in the dying moments after his hit from the border of the box took an awful deflection that wrong-footed Oblak but his effort missed the far corner agonisingly large and Atletico held to rise to second on the log, behind leaders True Sociedad only by goals-scored ratio.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za
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