Barça-Atletico never disappoints, it produces spectacle, goals, tension in every arena where they clash, and that's what happened in the Champions League, but this time the result was surprising, with Simeone's team shocking the blaugrana inside the "Camp Nou". For the first time since 2006, Atletico wins in Barcelona, ending a long "lethargy" where they did not know a victory for 25 consecutive matches.
Without Raphinha, Flick's team is not the same, although they started the challenge "fire" by quickly finding the advantage goal with Rashford, but the referee of the meeting canceled everything for Yamal's offside position. The most defining moment of this meeting came in the 44th minute, where Cubarsi intervened incorrectly against Giuliano Simeone. Initially, the referee of the meeting awarded a foul and a yellow card, but after reviewing the footage in VAR he punished the Spanish center-back with a red card.
Not only that, Barça was punished twice by this episode, as Alverz executed a spectacular free kick sending the ball into the triangle, a crazy goal that gave Atletico the advantage.
With one player less, this challenge became extremely complicated for Barça, but Flick's team did not give up, and even flirted with a goal, where Rashford in an almost identical position to Alvarez violently hit the ball on the crossbar. Atletico put Barça on the mat in the 70th minute, where Sorloth served inside the area with a precise deflection doubled the figures.
Pushed by the public, Barça tried to score at least one goal, but without success, forcing them to now implement a major upset in Madrid if they do not want to "wash their hands" of the Champions League in the quarter-finals.
