La Liga: Alvaro Morata Strikes Late as Atletico Madrid Beat Girona

Alvaro Morata snatched a 94th minute winner to earn Atletico Madrid a 1-0 victory at Girona on Monday and tighten their maintain on third place in La Liga.

After La Real, fourth, drew at Mallorca on Sunday, Atletico moved three factors away from the Basque aspect with their last-gasp victory at Montilivi.

Morata turned dwelling from shut vary after a nook was flicked on to him by Angel Correa, with Atletico surviving a protracted VAR test to see if the striker had strayed offside.

“For me it was very clear (that it was legitimate), but when it wasn’t I’d have gone dwelling by bicycle,” Morata told DAZN.

“(My team-mates) were annoyed because I touched it, but VAR gave it, so I am happy.

“It’s hard to see it there and not touch it, maybe they would have been more annoyed if I didn’t touch it and it didn’t go in.”

Girona, twelfth, began brightly and thought they’d received a penalty when Stefan Savic dealt with within the field, however striker Taty Castellanos was offside.

After Atletico’s 6-1 thrashing of Sevilla final weekend, Simeone stored religion within the Memphis Depay and Antoine Griezmann strike partnership.

The pair mixed early on, with Depay teeing up Griezmann, whose effort was saved by Paulo Gazzaniga.

Then Griezmann turned creator and crossed for Depay, who volleyed narrowly over from shut vary.

Yannick Carrasco additionally examined Gazzaniga within the first half, enjoying nicely on the left flank and getting ahead at each alternative.

Depay fired one other effort over as Atletico took management of the sport.

Early within the second half Griezmann, one of many league’s most in-form gamers, arrange Marcos Llorente however he too was denied by Gazzaniga.

Atletico appealed for a penalty when Oriol Romeu dealt with however the referee noticed Rojiblancos defender Mario Hermoso pushing the Girona midfielder into the ball when watching the VAR replay.

Jan Oblak was known as into motion for the primary time to disclaim Viktor Tsygankov, after which once more to disclaim David Lopez, who tried to lob him from vary.

Atletico’s Slovenian goalkeeper made one other high-quality save to disclaim Rodrigo Riquelme late on, with the on-loan midfielder nearly scoring in opposition to his mother or father membership.

With the sport tapering off, substitute Morata intervened late on to grab Atletico three factors from a fair conflict, their fourth win from their final 5 La Liga video games.

“It’s a pity, we made an enormous effort, (a consequence) escaped us by a high-quality margin and it’s a disgrace as a result of it was an vital level,” Girona defender Santi Bueno told DAZN.

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