Nothing for 82 minutes, then everything
Atletico Madrid won 3-0 at the Reale Arena on Sunday night, and for most of the evening that result looked absurd. The two sides had spent an hour and a quarter neutralising each other in a scrappy, low-quality match with barely a chance worth the name.
Ochieng handled in the box in the 82nd minute. Alejandro Grimaldo took the penalty two minutes later and put it away without a flicker.
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The bench decided it
Jonathan David had started the match sitting down. He finished a counter-attack in the 90th minute to make it two. Giuliano Simeone got the third in the 95th.
Three goals in eleven minutes. That is the reward for a team that does not panic when a game refuses to open up.
Scoring for a side managed by your father draws a particular kind of attention in Spain, and Giuliano Simeone has lived with it all season. His finish ended the contest, which is one way to answer the noise.
A week earlier, they were the ones being taken apart
Bilbao had beaten Atletico 3-0 seven days before. Identical scoreline, reversed, and the same questions about whether this squad has a spine.
San Sebastian supplied a reply. Atletico are back inside the La Liga top four. Real Sociedad, for their part, never found a route in and finished the night without a goal to show for it.
Osasuna visit the Metropolitano in midweek.
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