Atlético awakens in the second half against Osasuna

Atlético el Sadar stormed with a revitalizing victory after the cupbearer disappointment. Against an Osasuna that had options for a better result, they imposed their hierarchy. The Navarrese wanted to discuss the position in the table but they were left with the desire to ascend to the noble zone.

Aitor and Oblak could have gone in the first part to take a walk around the Plaza del Castillo, to have a coffee in the corner of Hemingway, in Iruña, but they stayed in their post, for what they will say, or perhaps for the uncertainty of not finding a taxi back, which is Sunday, and perhaps in the second part they could miss their teammates. These things must be discussed in the locker room: listen, for the moment there is no task for you, as if they were discontinuous fixtures, that you take a walk around the Sepe, and if that’s the case, we’ll call you.

There they were both, between the three sticks, or hitting little runs on the edge of the area, who were in shorts and the scratch was considerable in Pamplona. Work, what is called work, they did not have much, with Atlético in saving mode, to see them come, and Osasuna with the hangover of access to the Cup semifinals and a lineup quite changed by the effort on Wednesday.

Chimy was bustling, trying to catch one of the balls that Abde puts in the red neighborhood, although Reinildo interfered, implacable, in his attacking efforts, while Griezmann, in his most mischievous version, commanded the hostilities, to say the least, of Simeone’s team , so worried about equipping himself behind that he forgot what was happening a few meters ahead, where the Frenchman and Correa move with their colored hair, like the hooks of squid, to see if their teammates bite and put the ball close to them.

They had to be self-taught in their efforts, which faded as they got bored with waiting so long. No one was biting there.

But Aitor and Oblak had done well to stay on guard in their booth, because Atlético took a step forward putting Carrasco for Lemar, and from the first minute their intentions were guessed. Griezmann did the honors to the new mattress face with a shot from the front that forced Aitor for the first time.

In addition, the blanket that began to cover the feet, uncovered the head, so the match became much more entertaining because Osasuna found more ground. Chimy missed a free header shot, one of those that the Argentine never misses. Then Oblak took a shot from near Moi Gómez.

Despite the fact that Simeone put Morata and Saúl on the field, with clear intentions of persisting in his idea of ​​the second half, it seemed that Osasuna was tilting the field in his favor, because Oblak continued with a lot of work. In 71 he had to fly to send off a shot from Moreno that Saúl poisoned with his deflection. But the midfielder from Madrid, almost in the next action, was unmarked diagonally behind the rojilla defense, who did not detect him, and ran for the ball that De Paul put him to score the goal for Atlético. After two years without scoring, he found a good moment.

With the result against Osasuna, and as before, but in reverse, Atlético enjoyed something they really like: running in the open. Once again De Paul, who was managing the midfield with much more ease, pulled from the squad and bevel to put a delivery to Griezmann that Aitor Fernández took out with his face. The Frenchman finished off the next one with a header, and the goalkeeper cleared it for a corner.

Atlético chained occasions, which defended themselves well against a brave Osasuna, with all the artillery on the field, but without precision in the last meters. The last one was also from Atlético, very clear, in a counterattack that Griezmann started with a long ball to Morata, who ran with Carrasco and De Paul next to him. He wanted to be generous, and instead of shooting, he left her behind, but he chose his companion badly, and Moncayola was able to cut the center.

Atlético did not have to regret it, because the last Osasunista hugs they endured with integrity, before Alberola Rojas, who only drew a card in an intense but fair game, pointed out that that was over.

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