He Atletico Madrid has achieved an important victory against Girona in the second day of the League with goals from Griezmann, Llorente and Koke (3-0) in a match where the visiting team was hampered by the performance of its goalkeeper.
The great atmosphere that was experienced this Sunday at the Metropolitano stadium quickly spread to the local players, who began to create opportunities.
But the goal came in an unexpected way when at 37 minutes of play Paulo Gazzaniga failed in his exit and he caught the ball with his hands outside the area. Despite the protests of the red and whites and the entire Metropolitano, referee Juan Martínez Munuera considered that the action only deserved a yellow card.
Antoine Griezmann He did not lose concentration and took the free kick very close to the post to score 1-0.
Marcos Llorente, inspired
And in one of the first plays of the second half, Marcos Llorente with a I beat on the run from outside the area, which surprised Gazzaniga despite being centered. The winger, who He already scored a similar one on the first dayreceived the ball after Griezmann followed up on a ball won in the air by Julián Álvarez in the centre of the field with a spectacular touch, jumping and without looking. A good debut also in front of the Colchonera fans. The Spider.
The Catalan team logically sought a reaction, but Atlético defended itself and in stoppage time Koke Resurrección – who came on as a substitute in the second half – finished off a counterattack and scored the decisive goal.
In this way, Diego Pablo Simeone’s team has achieved its first victory of the season and adds four points. On the other hand, the Girona starts much worse than last year and only adds one point out of six possible.
Technical sheet
3 – Atletico Madrid: Oblak; Griezmann (Correa, m. 81), Julian Alvarez (Sorloth, m. 81).
0 – Girona: Gazzaniga; Arnau, David López, Blind, Miguel Gutiérrez; Oriol Romeu (Solís, d. 57); Tsygankov (Almena, d. 68), Iván Martín (Portu, d. 57), Yangel Herrera, Bryan Gil; Abel Ruiz (Mievski, d. 57).
Goles: 1-0, m. 40: Griezmann. 2-0, m. 49: Llorente. 3-0, m. 94: Koke.
Referee: Martínez Munuera (C. Valenciano). He gave yellow cards to the home team De Paul (m. 26) and to the visitors Abel Ruiz (m. 28), Gazzaniga (m. 39) and Oriol Romeu (m. 56).
Incidents: Match corresponding to the second day of LaLiga EA Sports, played at the Cívitas Metropolitano stadium in front of 60,414m spectators.
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