On the fast track and dominating from start to finish, Atlético pocketed a victory. Mark Sorloth scored a couple of goals before reaching the first half hour to resolve the match with the sufficiency worthy of a contender. The Norwegian attacker was active in the area to get the victory back on track and outside of it to attack spaces and destroy the bottom team’s defense. Located in the opposite field, Atlético made Oviedo feel its inferiority from the beginning of the duel, although not in the initial game. Another sign that Simeone had his sights set on Tuesday’s match against Hansi Flick’s Barcelona.
Atlético marked the line against Oviedo until it suffocated him. He didn’t let him go past the center line of the field. With Pubill, who was in his new ownership, very attentive in his anticipations about the eternal Rondón. Signed as a full-back, a position in which he offered, Simeone believes he has discovered a potential center back, due to his size, long legs for taking off and breaking lines in driving. Oblak also returned to the eleven to be a mere spectator of the authoritarian performance of his teammates. It was convenient for him to appear at the Camp Nou with minutes of filming after being absent for three games.
Atlético had a clean start with Lenglet and also with Hancko, increasingly integrated to do damage as a false winger when he leaves the cave. Choose well where to appear to do damage when it appears in the vicinity of the area. His was the assist to Sorloth who opened the scoring after the ball passed through Lenglet, Nico González and Baena, who found Hancko with a pass between the legs of an Oviedo defender. The Slovakian placed a tense center at mid-height that Griezmann did not reach with half a finger, but Sorloth did to push it without opposition.
Barely ten minutes of play had been played and Atlético, for the fourteenth time in 14 games, took the lead. A historic record. Oviedo couldn’t, not even with the pace to take off and set up the game for its rival. The ball flowed to Simeone’s team, once again with the nerve and having surpassed 700 games (702) with Atlético. Gallagher escorted him well, acerbic in sweeping and removing and getting off the hook as a finisher.
who made a drag towards the near post to connect a left-footed shot first. The ball bounced off his marker and he no longer wasted the volley he picked up. Two goals from the Norwegian and the feeling that he was in one of those sweet nights in which he feels comfortable because he feels that he knows how to find him and exploit his powerful stride,
With 2-0, it had to be Cazorla who took the flag of Oviedo’s dignity. He did it with two passes that finally made Oblak feel threatened. The first was headed by Viñas centered. The second one was spliced by Hassan bitten. The Metropolitano recognized Cazorla for his career when he was substituted midway through the second half. Hassan, probably the player with the most imbalance in Oviedo’s one-on-one, was also encouraged. He showed on several occasions that change of pace that makes him the winner of his duels against the full-backs.
The best Oviedo emerged when it already saw the game lost and maintained that version at the beginning of the second half. He even raised his courage to put pressure on the red and whites. Simeone understood that with that advantage Baena could also think about the Camp Nou. Giuliano replaced him. Without their number 10, Atlético lost weight in the midfield and Oviedo. He lacked a shot in a good center from Nacho Vidal. Viñas did connect a header that went high.
That was the signal for Simeone to bring in Barrios and Julián Alvarez to recover the government of the party. Atlético looked for a third goal that did not come. Gallagher had it after a good pass from Julián Álvarez, Giuliano, one-on-one with Aarón and Gallagher with a hit that repelled the good Oviedo goal,
Luis Carrión’s team also continued looking for a goal that they could rush Atlético in the final minutes. He did not find it and added a defeat that Simeone’s team put back on track with authority in the first half hour. That was enough for him to add his sixth consecutive victory in the League and travel to Barcelona with the opportunity to make a coup.
