Atlético Madrid superior to the Champions League semi-finals regardless of shedding 2-1 to a resurgent Barcelona on Tuesday.
The Blaugrana, who fell 2-0 down in final week’s first leg and completed the competition on the Metropolitano with 10 males, fought again bravely, however Ademola Lookman’s objective was sufficient for Atletico to win 3-2 on combination.
Lamine Yamal fired a warning shot within the second minute and the teenager made essentially the most of his subsequent probability, profitable a cross from Ferran Torres earlier than calmly slotting it beneath Juan Musso.
Ferran grew to become the scorer from supplier within the twenty fourth minute, with a brutal assault that compelled Barça into the tie.
Fermín López appeared set to place Barça forward on combination when he related with a cross from the best, however he was unable to beat the advancing Musso and the Spain worldwide added to his frustration by unintentionally kicking him within the face.
Atlético bought fortunate within the thirty first minute when Marcos Llorente broke by means of down the best flank and made an ideal line for Lookman to attain the opening objective.
Barca thought they’d equalized once more early within the second half when Ferran fired a shot previous Musso, however Ferran was simply deflected offside earlier than Gabi’s shot deflected off beam.
Then, within the 79th minute, Barça’s activity grew to become much more tough when a VAR verify confirmed that Eric Garcia was despatched off for denying a scoring alternative after bringing down substitute Alexander Sorloth.
Ronald Araujo appeared like he was going to take the sport into further time within the closing phases, however he solely had a header from six yards out.
Information Report: Lookman outperforms a few of Ramin’s historical past
In his one hundred and fiftieth look in all competitions for Barça, Yamal began in impressed kind. His objective, clocked at 3:51, was Barcelona’s quickest objective in a Champions League knockout stage match since Lionel Messi’s objective (02:06) towards Chelsea within the Spherical of 16 in March 2018.
With this, Yamal contributed to twenty objectives within the Champions League. At 18 years and 275 days outdated, he’s the youngest participant within the historical past of the match to attain this milestone.
Nevertheless, Lookman had the ultimate say. He at present performs 17 video games for Atlético and has been immediately concerned in 9 objectives. Solely Julian Alvarez (11 objectives) has contributed extra objectives for Diego Simeone’s facet because the ahead made his debut for the membership in February.
Hansi Flick was upset by Garcia’s pink card and whereas the German might imagine it was an actual turning level, indiscipline as soon as once more value the Blaugrana. It’s the first time that Barça have acquired a pink card in each matches of a Champions League closing.
Atlético carried out nicely with typical tenacity. Simeone’s facet had been on par with Barça by way of pictures taken (15 every), however the Blaugrana created possibilities value 2.28 objectives towards the house crew’s 1.71 anticipated objectives.
