Atletico Madrid overcame relegation from Bilbao with victory over Betis

She put behind her midweek and painful elimination in the semi-finals of the Spanish Cup by Bilbao, celebrating the victory with 2-1 on her Betis in “Metropolitano” n Atletico MADRID!

Diego Simeone’s side went 2-0 up in the first half thanks to an own goal and his 20th goal of the season Moratamanaging to maintain her lead despite his golar Carvalho with which Betis reduced to 62′. Thus, Atlético increased to 5 points its difference from the 5th in the Bilbao standings, which will compete in the evening (22:00) with Barcelona.

The hosts entered the match very strongly, managing to open the score in the 8th minute. In a phase that started from his wrong pass BergerinDepay crossed from the right and after consecutive counterattacks, o Towel sent the ball into the net of his team, for 1-0.

Atlético continued to dominate, with Morata to take a penalty from the goalkeeper of Betis in the 25th minute, but with Silva to emerge victorious in their second duel, preventing his execution. However, shortly before the end of the first half (44′), the Atletico striker got his blood back, scoring after Silva’s unstable intervention on a long-range shot De Paulgiving his team a two-goal lead!

Clearly improved in the second 45 minutes, Betis became more aggressive and managed to reduce to 2-1 with a fantastic shot by William Carvalho in the 62nd minute, but he never managed to find the equaliser, even though he had a goal with Rodríguez in the 79th minute, with 2-1 remaining until the end.

The schedule for the 27th matchday of La Liga:

Friday 1/3

Thelta-Almeria 1-0

(73′ Migetha)

Saturday 2/3

Sevilla-Sociedad 3-2

(11′, 13′ En Nesiri, 66′ Ramos – 45’+5′ penalty Andre Silva, 90’+2′ Mendez)

Rayo Vallecano-Cádiz 1-1

(88′ Lejean – 90+12′ Hernandez)

Getafe-Las Palmas 3-3

(11′ Mata, 14′ Greenwood, 45′ Maksimovic – 35′ Ramires, 50′ Cardona, 57′ El Haddadi)

Valencia-Real Madrid 2-2

(27′ Duro, 30′ Yaremchuk – 45+5′, 76′ Vinicius)

Sunday 3/3

Villarreal-Granada 5-1

(7′, 19′, 66′ Sorloth, 32′ Capoue, 47′ Gedes – 90’+1′ Kormenou)

Atletico-Betis 2-1

(8′ self. Pecella, 44′ Morata – 62′ Carvallio)

Mallorca-Girona 19:00

Bilbao-Barcelona 22:00

Monday 4/3

Osasuna-Alaves 22:00

The next (28th) matchday

Friday 8/3



Barcelona-Mallorca 22:00

Saturday 8/3



Valencia-Getafe 15:00

Cadiz-Atletico Madrid 17:15

Granada-Sociedad 19:30

Girona-Osasuna 22:00

Sunday 10/3



Alavés-Rayo Vagecano 15:00

Las Palmas-Bilbao 17:15

Real Madrid-Telta Vigo 19:30

Betis-Villarreal 22:00

Monday 1/3



Almeria-Seville 22:00