Football Update: Atletico Madrid vs. Racing Santander – Match Review (Part 4)
The visitors were playing an attacking formation of 4-3-3 and it was expected that they would go for goals but they didn’t. Tono stood guard between the two poles and he was helped by four defenders; http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adrián-c3701
Gonzales played right in front of the four defenders and right behind the midfielders in a holding midfield position. Diop was the connector between the defenders and the strikers as he played in the centre midfield.
Colsa played in the centre attacking midfield role. He was the player who connected the strikers with the midfielders and also went up front to take his shots on goal. Kennedy Bakircioglu played as a striker along with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pedro-Munitis-c29620 Alvarez who was later
substituted for Bolado due to a little strain that he took in the first half. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Markus-Rosenberg-c24251 was the centre forward for Racing Santander and the few attacks that were made by Racing found his feet but he was simply miserable at finishing the ball into the
net.
A few opportunities came for Atletico Madrid after the 70th minute. It was during the 70th minute when Diego Godin Leal had a wonderful chance to score the first goal for his side. However, his head effort never found the target and
was driven wide. The substitute Koke tried to make himself count as he took a shot from outside the box but the in-form Tono made sure he attends to it. Later, it was the Atletico Madrid full back Tomas Ujfalusi who took a shot from the centre of the 18 penalty
area but even from that close range he could not find the target and blew his shot above the cross bar. During the 78th minute, the substitute for Tiago, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Juan-Valera-c19847 had an opportunity to score from 8 yards and his header was blocked by Tono to
keep his team into the game.
Racing Santander counter attacked during the 80th minute and it was Markus Rosenberg who took his chances on goal and the wonderful effort was blocked by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-de-Gea-c10463. For the last 10 minutes, the home team was simply frustrated as they kept on
trying to break Racing Santander’s defensive walls but they simply couldn’t find the key to the lock. It was during the 88th minute when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Costa-c11116 was presented with a glorious opportunity from point blank range and Tono denied him the goal yet
again.
The game finished in a dead lock as both the teams settled with one point each. With this result, it means that Atletico Madrid are sixth in the Spanish La Liga points table while Racing Santander are fourteenth. The Madrid side are to face Hercules next
while Racing are to face Sporting Gijon.
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