The culé team heads into the international match window as leader of the League after turning the score around at the Metropolitan stadium. The red and whites started solidly and moved forward to partially occupy the highest place in the standings.
First modification: 11/09/2026 - 01:48
Barcelona overcame a bad time at the Metropolitano, regrouped before half-time and completed a worthy comeback with two goals from Fermín López, the leader this Sunday of the LaLiga leader EA Sports, winner 1-2 against Atlético de Madrid, which he did not hit with his magnificent first half hour.
The reaffirmation of the current champion, who comes out stronger when all his pursuers were closer. The disappointment of Atlético, who played to win, especially in the first act, full of conviction and football then, but declined later, devastated by all the tremendous previous effort.
“I don't know what the word from you to you is,” Simeone avoided the day before. Not only did Atlético play face to face, but they went further in the first half.
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There are few times, probably not even five, some of them also in the Metropolitan, that Flick's Barcelona felt so out of control, so out of place, so vulnerable, as the beginning of this duel.
Atlético's dominance in the first 30 minutes of play
The match in Simeone's head was an initial nightmare for Barça. It included as a surprise the release towards the middle of Giuliano Simeone, undetectable when he burst towards the center, coordinated with the extension to the right of Kang in Lee; All of them combined, plus Julián Alvarez, in the fast-paced action that turned everything upside down.
It was only the 9th minute. The Argentine attacker had already forgiven, or saved Joan García, depending on the perspective, a one-on-one, in which he had too much time to think about so many times, when he was heading towards the goalkeeper. A header from Pubill and a shot from Fermín had also repelled the crossbar. All before 1-0.
Pure vertigo, but also precision. From the throw-in on the left of their attack, still in their field, when Álex Baena changed the entire game to the right, to the assistance of Julián Alvarez to the groundbreaking arrival through the middle of Giuliano Simeone, all activated with the delicious outside of Kang in Lee's right foot. A great goal.
The Metropolitano came to a boil. It was no wonder. Atlético was flying, they were looking at each other in Barcelona, Lamine Yamal was desperate for much of the first half, and Julián Alvarez responded with facts, the only tangible thing, the only true thing at this point, of the commitment that his present with the red and white club shows. Your team.
The way he ran, emptied himself, pressed and dribbled, with two more chances saved by Joan García in the first half, are an unequivocal demonstration of all this, but also of the differential aspect that he has in this Atlético that feels capable of anything, even overtaking Barcelona, the current champion and the favorite, for a good while.
Barcelona reacts in time to direct the comeback
Not only did he contain him like other times, he not only counterattacked him, but he also looked at him directly, without nuances, to compete with him for the ball. He achieved it during many sections of the first half. But it also proved that even Barcelona, which suffered throughout the first half, is a very difficult team to beat. Lamine Yamal announced it and Fermín transmitted it with the score at 1-1 as the game entered those final seconds towards halftime. It was minute 44 and 22 seconds, when his left foot hit Oblak's net. It was timely and accurate.
Barcelona has so much and is so good that there is no way to control all its variables and virtues. A goal is born from any ball. A heartbreak for Atlético on the way to the locker room. Superior and brilliant, the tie was a stick. Against the current and far from its most imposing version, the goal was a relief for Barcelona. A necessary reboot.
The first chance of the second half already belonged to the Barça team, this Sunday in green. A shot of Lamine Yamal. Barcelona also dominated when they returned from the locker room, with a clarity unknown until then in the match, but with the warning, now, of the counterattack. Julián Alvarez once again scored poorly against Joan, but he also created the next chance that neither Baena nor Sorloth managed to score.
Atlético was already broken, with visible signs of fatigue among its players, with Barcelona dominating, Fermín scored 1-2 for Hansi Flick's team, assisted by Lamine Yamal, in the 66th minute. The differential quality of the Barça team, much better in the second half than in the first and more of a leader, three points ahead of Real Madrid and already five ahead of the red and white team.
EFE
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