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MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid was able to accommodate Lionel Messi and yet still couldn’t top Barcelona in the Spanish alliance on Saturday.
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Madrid Open 2017 draw: See who Rafael Nadal will face on the Caja ... | madrid open 2017 drawAtletico was a few account abroad from catastrophe a seven-year winless band adjoin Barcelona in the alliance until Luis Suarez produced an 82nd-minute blaster for 1-1.
Suarez had been abortive at Wanda Metropolitano Stadium afore his backward attack that continued Barcelona’s best band adjoin Atletico to 15 alliance matches.
Atletico did a appropriate job endlessly Messi afterwards his starring role to put Argentina in the World Cup. He has 14 goals in 12 matches with Barcelona but was clumsy to account at the Metropolitano. His best adventitious was a second-half chargeless bang that hit the post.
The playmaker, advancing off a continued cruise from Ecuador for Argentina’s qualifier, had accustomed with 27 goals in 34 matches adjoin Atletico in all competitions.
“He absolutely wasn’t as annoyed as best bodies anticipation he would be because he played a amazing match,” Atletico drillmaster Diego Simeone said of Messi. “We dedicated well, aloof couldn’t put the bold abroad on the counterattacks.”
The aftereffect concluded Barcelona’s absolute alliance almanac and cut the club’s advance to bristles credibility over Real Madrid, which defeated Getafe 2-1 with a backward champ by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Atletico backward in third place, six credibility abaft Barcelona, which won its aboriginal seven alliance matches.
Sevilla alone to fourth place, additionally six credibility off the lead, afterwards accident at Athletic Bilbao 1-0.
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Barcelona, which had outscored opponents 23-2, controlled control but it was Atletico which was able to actualize the best cogent opportunities. Antoine Griezmann had two bright affairs denied by Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen early.
Saul Niguez gave the hosts the advance with a well-placed attempt from alfresco the breadth in the aboriginal half. Suarez jumped amid Atletico defenders to arch in a cantankerous by acting Sergi Roberto.
“Good job from all the aggregation in a complicated game,” Suarez said.
Two weeks afterwards arena abaft bankrupt doors to beef the Spanish government’s moves to arrest Catalonia’s ability referendum, Barcelona was met with Spanish flags, and abrupt apostle Gerard Pique was audibly jeered by the bounded fans.
REAL MADRID RISE
Ronaldo was mostly chastened for Madrid until scoring the 85th-minute champ at Alfonso Perez Coliseum in southern Madrid.
After a absolute continued canyon by Isco, Ronaldo let the brawl animation and accursed in for his aboriginal alliance ambition of the season.
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2017 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles - Wikipedia | madrid open 2017 draw“We apperceive that aback we charge Cristiano, he is consistently there for us,” Madrid larboard aback Marcelo said.
Karim Benzema opened the scoring for Madrid with a abundant run into the area, accepting accomplished a apostle with a quick blow afore sending a low attempt into the far corner. It was additionally his aboriginal alliance goal. The French striker was abiding from injury.
Striker Jorge Molina alike for the hosts aboriginal in the additional half. Replays showed Molina was offside.
Getafe additionally conceded backward goals in home losses to Sevilla and Barcelona. It alone to 14th in the 20-team standings.
“We can’t acquiesce this to accumulate happening,” Molina said of the backward goals. “Maybe we shouldn’t accept backward alone on defense, maybe we could accept apprenticed a little bit more.”
A Ronaldo lookalike was bedfast by aegis guards in the aboriginal bisected afterwards entering the angle cutting Madrid’s compatible and abutting the Portugal forward.
WINNING AGAIN
Athletic belted Sevilla in Bilbao to breeze a six-game winless band in all competitions. Mikel Vesga denticulate the champ aloof afore halftime at San Mames Stadium, area Sevilla absent for an eighth beeline time.
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Real Sociedad concluded its five-game winless band by assault Alaves with goals by Mikel Oyarzabal in the 77th and Aritz Elustondo in the 81st. Alaves, second-to-last in the standings, was advancing off its aboriginal win of the division at Levante.
Before the bout in the arctic burghal of Vitoria, a action amid admirers from Alaves and Racing Santander, which was arena a third-division bout adjoin Vitoria, larboard four bodies injured, including one which had to be ailing in an accelerated affliction unit, according to Spanish media.
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