The suspense is at its height at the top of the liga ranking. Just eliminated from the C1 against Real Madrid, Atlético had to quickly get up against FC Barcelona to place itself in the title race. Unsurprisingly in the XI, Diego Simeone hoped to strike a big blow against Barça, which has not lost since December 21, 2024 and a defeat against the Colchoneros (1-2). But with Olmo, Lamine Yamal, Casado, the Catalans wanted to take their revenge.
It was starting very well for Barça, which was very close to opening the scoring on a beautiful collective action and a pole found by Lamine Yamal (6th), before an intervention by Oblak in front of Lewandowski (14th). But the Catalans dropped too quickly rhythm and Atlético could then develop its game plan. Because despite the Catalan sterile domination, the Colchoneros played the blows well and Griezmann could overthrow the game towards Simeone, who intelligently gave Alvarez (1-0, 45th+2). The opening of the score at the best of moments.
Barça overturned everything
Upon returning from the locker room, Barça did not yet push enough to destabilize Madrid. And on a new counterattack, Atlético was playing out of the trap of the Blaugrana offside to allow Sorlow to make the break (2-2, 70th). And from the start, Lewandowski released a nice strike to reduce the scoring and relaunch the match (2-1, 71st). This crazy match could not stop like this and a good center of Raphinha found the head of Torres for equalization (2-2, 78th).
The two teams then pushed to seek the victory at the end of the game, with the fear of losing this precious point of the draw. But on a last action built, Lamine Yamal released a rolled shot and deflected by Reinildo… which finished in the small net of Oblak (3-2, 90th+3). Before the match was concluded by a last goal signed Ferran Torres, for the double and exult the Catalan bench (4-2, 90th+7).
Barça overturned everything and returns to the lead, tied with Real Madrid in Liga before the international break. Without forgetting that the Blaugranas always have one more match. FC Barcelona will then play the derby against Girona. On the other hand, this is complicated for the Colchoneros, who will have to play Espanyol Barcelona with 4 fewer points on his two rivals.
