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He Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid <\/strong>has managed its advantage from the first leg to eliminate Tottenham (3-2; 5-7 on aggregate) and will play the quarterfinals of the Champions League against FC Barcelona. <\/p>\n Diego Pablo Simeone’s men have resisted this Wednesday Spurs<\/em> and despite the defeat in London, it has certified its pass to the next round of the highest continental competition.<\/p>\n After 5-2 in the first leg, it was clear that the English team would go all out and they did. However, the first scare came from the colchoneros, with a goal disallowed for offside by Lookman in the 6th minute.<\/p>\n Tottenham tried it in many ways, particularly from set pieces. Although really alone Mathys Tel created danger<\/strong>. And it was precisely with a cross from the omnipresent French attacker on the half hour mark that the first goal arrived. A ball hanging from him was headed almost at will by Randal Kolo Muani at the far post, who caught the Atleti defense out of position.<\/p>\n The Spanish team had bad times and Juan Musso avoided the second <\/strong>with a great save from Tel’s shot – who else – after a very quick combination by the locals.<\/p>\n Only the good work of the experienced and talented Antoine Griezmann allowed Cholo’s team to take a breath. And in fact before the break Atl\u00e9tico was on the verge of tying, although they ran into another great goalkeeper in front of them, Guglielmo Vicar, who made a stoppage <\/strong>handball changed to Giuliano Simeone’s shot.<\/p>\n Of course, after the restart Atl\u00e9tico equalized in a counterattack launched by Griezmann, led by Giuliano and in which Ademola Lookman ended up assisting Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez<\/strong>who on the turn sent the ball into the squad. The Spider <\/em>It stings again as usual.<\/p>\n The match continued at a frenetic pace. Archie Gray stole <\/strong>a ball in the center of the field, he combined with Xavi Simmons and the Dutchman trained in Barcelona took a great shot close to the post from the front to get his team back into the tie.<\/p>\n In that give and take, David Hancko again achieved the tie by heading a corner kick from Juli\u00e1n, who is very good at set pieces tonight.<\/p>\n Finally, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gim\u00e9nez committed a penalty <\/strong>and Simmons transformed it to give the Spurs fans the consolation of victory in the second leg, a meritorious victory given the delicate situation that the team is going through, weakened by a plague of casualties and close to the relegation spots in the Premier.<\/p>\n And however Tottenham turned out fourth in the league<\/strong> of the Champions League, now Atl\u00e9tico keeps that place seeded <\/strong>and will have the field factor in their favor in the quarterfinals against Barcelona, \u200b\u200baccording to the new competition rules <\/strong>this season. <\/p>\n And the fact is that their opponent in that next round, Barcelona – who for their part eliminated Newcastle with a rout – was just below – fifth – in that first phase. Thus, Barcelona – Atl\u00e9tico will be with the first leg at the Camp Nou and the return leg at the Metropolitano in April. And it will be a reissue of the recent Cup semi-final tie <\/strong>del Rey, won by Atl\u00e9tico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid has managed its advantage from the first leg to eliminate Tottenham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Griezmann, leader and guide<\/h2>\n
Tottenham – Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"