THE Real Madrid were close to escaping at +4 from Girona six days before hosting them, but their former footballer, Marcos Llorente, spoiled them by equalizing in 1-1 for Atletico Madrid to delays!
The “queen” had the upper hand in the first minutes and turned it into a goal in the 18th minute, when Braim Diath he took advantage of the inertia and counterattacks in Atlético’s defense to open the scoring from close range.
Real held the lead relatively comfortably until the break, with the visitors coming out stronger in the second half, even equalizing in the 48th minute through Savic.
However, the goal canceled as the exposed Saul was thought to have hindered Lunin.
The tempo began to pick up gradually from the 65th minute and after that there were plenty of good moments on both sides, with Oblak and Lunin keeping the scores level.
This changed in the 3rd minute of stoppage time, when after Depay’s header in the area, Llorente he nailed his former club with his head and froze the “Santiago Bernabeu”, giving the point to Atlético!
Somehow, Real only increased their gap to 2nd place by two points, while Diego Simeone’s side remained 4th and +3 behind Athletic Bilbao.
The program of the 23rd matchday
Friday, 2/2
Bilbao-Mallorca 4-0
(3′, 16′ Berchitse, 63′ Gurutheta, 89′ Muniain)
Saturday, 3/2
Valencia-Almeria 2-1
(14′ Duro, 23′ Yaremchuk – 50′ Aribas)
Granada-Las Palmas 1-1
(43′ Mendes – 68′ Pehino)
Alavés-Barcelona 1-3
(51′ Omorodion – 22′ Lewandowski, 49′ Gundogan, 63′ Vitor Roque)
Girona-Sociedad 0-0
Sunday, 4/2
Villarreal-Cádiz 0-0
Osasuna-Thelta 0-3
(24′ Strand Larsen, 25′ de la Torre, 90′ Douvikas)
Betis-Getafe 1-1
(35′ pen. Isco – 8′ pen. Greenwood)
Real Madrid-Atletico Madrid 1-1
(18′ Braim Diath – 90+3′ Llorente)
Monday, 5/2
Rayo Vallecano-Seville (22:00)
Next matchday (24th)
Friday, 9/2
Cadiz-Betis (22:00)
Saturday, 10/2
Alavés-Villarreal (15:00)
Real Sociedad-Osasuna (17:15)
Real Madrid-Girona (19:30)
Las Palmas-Valencia (22:00)
Sunday, 11/2
Getafe-Thelta (15:00)
Mallorca-Rayo Vallecano (17:15)
Sevilla-Atletico (19:30)
Barcelona-Granada (22:00)
Monday, 12/2
Almeria-Bilbao (22:00)
Source: Sport Fm
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