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Last Updated: February 18, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Atletico Madrid ended its stoop simply in time for the knockout levels of the Champions League.
MADRID: Atletico Madrid ended its stoop simply in time for the knockout levels of the Champions League.
Atletico routed Las Palmas 5-0 within the Spanish league on Saturday to finish a 3-sport winless streak forward of its match at Inter Milan within the first leg of the spherical of 16 within the Champions League.
Marcos Llorente and Ángel Correa scored two objectives every and Memphis Depay added one other on the Metropolitano Stadium.
The victory moved Diego Simeone’s crew as much as third within the standings, tied on factors with fourth-place Barcelona, which performs at Celta Vigo later Saturday.
Atletico and Barcelona are 10 factors behind league chief Real Madrid, which visits Rayo Vallecano on Sunday. Madrid has a 5-level lead over second-place Girona, which travels to Athletic Bilbao on Monday.
Atletico obtained the comfy win regardless of head coach Simeone’s choice to rotate the squad forward of the journey to Milan on Tuesday. Forward Antoine Griezmann was amongst these on the bench, together with midfielder Rodrigo De Paul.
Striker Álvaro Morata was out due to an damage.
Llorente scored his objectives within the fifteenth and twentieth minutes whereas Correa — not at all times amongst Simeone’s common starters — discovered the web within the forty seventh and 62nd. Depay struck within the 87th.
“We are happy with the effort by the team,” stated Correa, who additionally had an help. “Everything worked out well for us.”
Atletico was coming off a 1-0 loss at Sevilla within the Spanish league and a 1-0 defeat to Athletic Bilbao within the first leg of the semifinals of the Copa del Rey, a end result that ended the crew’s 28-sport unbeaten streak at dwelling. Before that, Atletico wanted a stoppage-time equalizer to attract 1-1 with Real Madrid on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium within the Spanish league. Its final win was 2-1 towards Rayo Vallecano in January.
Las Palmas, which had received three of its final 5 league matches, stayed in eighth place, nonetheless not out of competition for a European place.
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