BARÇA WOULD HAVE HAD A VERY AFFORDABLE RIVAL
Borussia Dortmund came back against Atlético de Madrid and will play the semi-finals against PSG
It has been a very gray Tuesday for Spanish football in the Champions League with the eliminations of FC Barcelona and an Atlético de Madrid that could not maintain the advantage either and left through the back door
Tuesday 'black' for the football of Spain, that remains with a possible solo representative in European competitions in this season. The FC Barcelona and the Athletic of Madrid have 'abandoned' the ship in quarter-finals after seeing how his rivals traced him back the eliminatory in the crash of turn. They have remained 'signalled' and leave to the Real Madrid, that this Wednesday visits to the Etihad Stadium, like the only team of LaLiga that could continue in the Champions League.
The history of the Barcelona was tétrica and was 'conditioned' by the expulsion of Ronald Araújo before the half hour of party after a fault on Bradley Barcola in the beak of the area. István Kovács did not doubt in commanding it to the street in a played that has caused the surprise and indignation of the Barça, but that answers to the fact that it was last man. The PSG no escatimó in efforts and condemned them in Montjuïc with Mbappé (2), Dembélé and Vitinha of protagonists in the marker.
The Athletic no 'improved' to the Barça
To the culés have not been the only to which has gone out him cross. And it is that the Athletic of Madrid has , practically, autoeliminado with a seguidilla of errors in the Signal Iduna Park in the visit to the Borussia Dortmund. Had an advantage of a goal, the same that the Barça, but did not know to take advantage of it. Brandt (33') eIan Maatsen (38') commissioned to give turn to the history in the first-half.The first was an authentic golazo after they found a valuable space between Witsel and Nahuel that caused that Hummels invented a big pass for the control of Brandt. It broke to his defender and took out a powerful latigazo to win, without discussion, to Oblak. Immediately, they went back to take advantage of the left-handed band of the Athletic for, after a kickoff of band, Maatsen took out a potentísimo shot that went in hit to the strain of the long stick.
They were the five more disastrous minutes of the Athletic, but did not finish the history there. Justo after the resumption, saw 'light' with the incorporation of Beautiful in attack, the one who propició a goal against of Hummels to equalise the eliminatory. The ones of the 'Cholo' Simeone believed it to him... And it arose Ángel Correa like hero for, with a volley with the outside, commanded the balloon to save. Like this the Atleti was in semis, but went ninety minutes too many long.
I shatter of Sabitzer to the Athletic of Madrid
It is that, almost by inertia, the Dortmund reacted and, after a good unemployed of Oblak, that repelled with the fists a latigazo of Brandt, could not do at all in front of the unappealable head butt of Niclas Füllkrug after a centr of a Sabitzer that, instants afterwards, signed the sentence of the 'colchoneros'. It won to the put esloveno with a zurdazo, raso, from out of the area. It could mark another, even, to leave more touched to an Athletic that goes back to remain without semifinals.
