Osasuna loses in the 86th minute against Atlético (1-0)

Atlético de Madrid beat Osasuna agonizingly this Saturday (1-0), with a saving goal from Felipe Monteiro. The Navarrese played a very serious game, especially in defensive tasks, but a mistake in a corner made them go home from empty.

The champion had to wait until the final minutes to win. After leaving two points in the Mestalla in the discount just before the break, the mattress team returned to the league competition devoid of its traditional trident and betting on a 4-4-2 that looked for the gap in the defense of Osasuna in a worked first half.

Despite this, as he already demonstrated at the Santiago Bernabéu, the red-and-white rear resisted the rojiblancas onslaught, especially until the ‘Cholo’ ordered Ángel Correa to fall towards the right wing, when the local team began to dominate more and better.

Before, Antoine Griezmann He had warned with a kick that went over the crossbar, and a few minutes later he tried again in a shot that touched the side of the net. It was also the Frenchman who was about to successfully finish a good collective move by the colchoneros, but Unai García blocked the forward’s shot.

Just before the break, Sergio Herrera ruined another time at the near post of the ‘Little Prince’, the protagonist of a goal canceled for Correa’s offside at the start of the second half. The Atleti had already put another rhythm to the meeting.

However, as the minutes passed, the game fell asleep, with Simeone’s men abusing the lateral centers, cleared one by one by the visiting defense; Jagoba Arrasate’s men rocked the Madrid team, who woke up to offer the last blows in a fantastic individual play by Carrasco who left licking the post after a very heeled shot.

Savic, at the pace of the Belgian, also touched the goal before Felipe finally managed to release the Navarrese goal; Carrasco threw the corner and the Brazilian, with a header, finished at the bottom of the tights (min.87). Jan Oblak still had to appear to destroy, in the discount, the goal of the tie for Roberto Torres’s rojillos.

With Sergio Herrera going up to the area to finish off a corner kick for Osasuna, Carrasco found himself in the counter against the empty goal to make it 2-0, but the ball crashed into the post. Despite everything, Atleti resumed the path of victory in search of regularity.

ALIGNMENTS

1 – Atlético de Madrid: Oblak; Vrsaljko (Carlos Martín, m. 84), Savic, Felipe, Hermoso; Llorente (Kondogbia, m. 74), Koke, Lemar (Luis Suárez, m. 65); Correa (De Paul, m. 65), Griezmann (Cunha, m. 74), Carrasco.

0 – Osasuna: Sergio Herrera; Nacho Vidal, Unai García, David García, Juan Cruz, Manu Sánchez (Roberto Torres, d. 88); Jon Moncayola (Barja, d. 88), Lucas Torró (Oier, d. 65), Darko Brasanac (Íñigo Pérez, d. 74); Chimy Ávila (Budimir, d. 65) and Kike García.

GOAL

1-0, Felipe headed in a corner (86 ‘)

Llorente and Kike Garcia