Barcelona win 2-1 at Atlético: Fermín López scores twice after an early Simeone goal and Barcelona go three clear
Atlético Madrid 1-2 Barcelona. Simeone scored in the 10th minute; Fermín López equalised in first-half stoppage time and won it in the 67th. Barcelona lead Real Madrid by three points, Atlético are five back.
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Barcelona came from a goal down to win 2-1 at Atlético Madrid on Sunday night and are three points clear at the top of La Liga after 12 games. Giuliano Simeone put Atlético ahead in the 10th minute; Fermín López equalised in first-half stoppage time and scored the winner in the 67th minute. Atlético, who would have gone top with a win, are third, five points behind.
How it happened
The account below is from Barcelona’s own match report, which is the only full report of the game this site could read on Monday morning. The club says Hansi Flick made one change from the side that beat Aston Villa in the Champions League, with Marc Bernal replacing the injured Rodri. The referee, according to the club’s match page, was Javier Alberola Rojas. A minute’s silence was held before kick-off for Jesús de Miguel, and the club says play was briefly halted after Atlético’s goal for a further tribute.
Atlético scored first. In the 10th minute, the club report says, “a swift counterattack saw Kang-in Lee find Julián Álvarez, who supplied the pass for Giuliano Simeone to finish first time”. For most of the first half that was how it stayed, and the report notes that Atlético were heading for top spot in La Liga while the score stood.
The equaliser came in stoppage time at the end of the first half. According to the report, “Pedri drove through the middle and found Fermín”, who “scored at the second attempt with a fine left-footed finish across Oblak”. The teams went in level at 1-1.
Flick changed his full-back at half-time, with Frenkie de Jong replacing Brian Fariñas at right-back, the club says, and brought on Andreas Christensen for João Cancelo on the hour. The winner came in the 67th minute: “Lamine Yamal threaded a superb pass into the path of Fermín”, who scored his second of the night. Eric García and Gavi came on in the 74th minute to see the game out. The club’s report records no red cards and no penalties, and this site could not read Atlético’s account of the game, so the minutes of any bookings are not given here.
What it changes
Barcelona have 33 points from 12 games, 11 wins and one defeat. Real Madrid, who won 3-0 at Valencia on Saturday for an eighth straight win in all competitions, have 30 from 12. Atlético have 28 from 12, with nine wins, one draw and two defeats, both of them in the last week: Bayern beat them 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday. Real Betis are fourth on 26 after winning 2-0 at Elche.
Before the game, as our preview set out, the three results had three different tables: a Barcelona win put them three clear of Real Madrid, an Atlético win would have put Atlético top on 31, and a draw would have left Barcelona one point ahead. The first of those happened. La Liga now stops for the international break, and the gap at the top stays at three points until it resumes.
What the market said
The closing price, the last price in BettingBeast’s feed before kick-off, was captured at 20:23 CET on Sunday. It made Barcelona the favourite at 2.14, a 47% chance; Atlético were 3.64, a 28% chance, and the draw 4.75, a 21% chance. Barcelona won. The price had moved against them during the week, from 1.85 when the feed first carried the match on 1 November, a 54% chance, to 2.14 at the close, with almost all of the move coming overnight before the game, as our Sunday Markets piece described. The move did not change the result.
The goals line was 3.5, with over at 1.92 and under at 2.08, so the market leaned slightly towards four goals or more. There were three. The handicap line, which gives one team a head start in goals, had Atlético at +0.5, priced 2.12 against Barcelona at 1.96: that is a bet on Atlético to avoid defeat, and it lost.
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