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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Atletico Madrid 1-0 Liverpool: Forlan strange goal


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Striker Atletico Madrid, Diego Forlan, scored a decisive 1-0 victory over Liverpool team in the first leg semi-final duel Europa League, Thursday (22/04/2010). Given there is still a second leg, at Anfield next weekend, Liverpool are still quite a chance in the final.

Alotnya score reflects the game's thin. Playing at home, Atletico have started the game with quick attacks, which led to Forlan scored in the ninth minute. Exploiting error Carragher and Kyrgiakos, Forlan slammed the ball into the goalkeeper Reina.

Furthermore, Liverpool tried to improve the mastery of the ball. However, pressing tightly played one opponent makes Liverpool often feed and lose the ball. Fortunately, the middle row they are always vigilant against the threat of counterattack.

Tough game that almost melt when Steven Gerrard had received a breakthrough bait Yossi Benayoun and fired it into the wicket of De Gea. Unfortunately, the execution Gerrard deviated from the target.



Atletico threat was lowered aggressiveness and improved attacks. Still, they remain consistently perform pressings. Speed and strength of Atletico players in making decisions, especially when taking the ball, really difficult for Liverpool. Although not conceded, they failed to score an equalizer until the halftime whistle sounded.

Not wanting to give your opponent a chance, Atletico kembai models the fast and aggressive game in the second round. With accuracy better bait, they succeeded in destroying the coordination of the middle row of Liverpool.

The result, barely threatened, they created two golden opportunities through Simao Sabrosa and Tomas Ujfalusi in the 55th minute and ke75. Unfortunately, two accurate execution was crude in the hands of Pepe Reina.

In the midst of this pressure, Liverpool finally managed to create chances through Steven Gerrard equalizer at minute 86. Unfortunately, the shot can be blocked by Dominguez.

Not wanting to lose the moment, Liverpool is trying to increase combat power. Unfortunately, the score 1-0 for the hosts did not change until the long whistle sounded.

Throughout the match, Atletico controlled the ball as much as 60 percent and a golden opportunity to create four out of seven attempts. Meanwhile, Liverpool off three shots, none of which met the target.

The composition of players:
Atletico: 13-David De Gea, 17-Tomas Ujfalusi, 3-Antonio Lopez, 21-Luis Perea, 18-Alvaro Dominguez Soto, 20-Simao (2-Valera 77), 12-Silva Paulo Assuncao, Raul Garcia-8; 19-Jose Antonio Reyes (6-Nacho Barnola Camacho 1990), 7-Diego Forlan (14-Eduardo Salvio 84), 9-Jose Manuel Jurado
Liverpool: 25-Pepe Reina; 23-Jamie Carragher, 16-Sotirios Kyrgiakos, 2-Glen Johnson, 5-Daniel Agger, 8-Steven Gerrard, 15-Yossi Benayoun (31-Nabil El Zhar 83), 20-Javier Mascherano, 21-Lucas; 18-Dirk Kuyt, 24-David Ngog (19-Ryan Babel 64)

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