By Edgardo Avelar
Not only was there anguish in the entire duel in which Atlético de Madrid eliminated 3-2 Barcelona of the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League, but in the first half the colchoneros goalkeeper Juan Musso dealt the Barcelona defender Fermín López a tremendous blow to the face that generated tremendous drama on the field of the Metropolitan stadium.
A virile play, full of the intensity with which each of the plays was played in which both teams sought to win the tremendous contest in this key of the prestigious Orejona and where the Barça team He made his fans dream of a miraculous comeback from 0-2 in the first leg.
But in the end the squad led by Diego “Cholo” Simeone knew how to overcome the complexity of the two goals with which Barcelona took the lead in the first half, scored by Lamine Yamal and then Ferrán Torres, which put the colchoneros against the wall in their own home.
It was precisely there that, within the gale of the Catalans, suddenly Fermín López, when he finished off towards Atlético’s goal the ball was stopped by Juan Musso in a great cross from Lamine Yamal, but at that moment the Argentine goalkeeper of the Colchonera squad, in his eagerness to prevent damage, hit the rival player in the face with his foot, which caused tremendous drama on the field of play.
There the alarms of German Hansi Flick’s squad went off, because they believed that it had been all for his partner when he began to bleed profuselywhich caused the assists to come in to try to support the Barça player.
The anguish was evident among both colchoneros and Catalans, but in the end López recovered and the rest was history when the Atlético de Madrid, through the Nigerian Ademola Lookmanlscored the goal of the pass to the semifinals in a drop from the right by Marcos Llorente who managed to center in the heart of the area in the closing of the African’s clamp to nest the ball in the nets.
Barcelona insisted ad nauseam for the tie on the global scoreboard with arrivals from the Polish Robert Lewandowski, from Lamine Yamal, from the Uruguayan Ronald Araujo, but everything was fruitless, since the goalkeeper Musso managed to avoid the fall of his goal and in others the forwards of the Catalan squad did not have enough aim and in the sin they carried out the penance.
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