Score draw 2-2, Atletico Madrid failed to move up to 3rd place standings

Atletico Madrid failed moved up to the 3rd place

On Monday morning, 10/1/22 the match between Villarreal vs Atletico Madrid at the Estadio de la Ceramica, was balanced. Playing at Villarreal home, Atletico Madrid failed to steal victory from Unai Emery’s team. Both teams had to settle for a 2-2 score.

At the beginning of the match, the team nicknamed Los Rojiblancos managed to outperform the opposing team through Angel Correa’s goal in the 10th minute. However, the home team responded by appearing more dominant in creating opportunities. Opportunities to equalize through a penalty kick also appeared in the 23rd minute.

After Thomas Lemar made a handball in the forbidden box. Gerard Moreno failed to take advantage of this opportunity as the executor. In the 29th minute, Villarreal managed to equalize through a reply scored by Pau Torres. The score was changed to 1-1 until the end of the first half.

In the second half, Villarreal continued to play dominant and took the lead after Gerard Moreno’s goal in the 58th minute. This goal was created through Alberto Moreno’s through ball. Atletico Madrid goalkeeper, Jan Oblak, had time to hold the ball, but the ball instead bounced into the net which made the score changed to 2-1.

This goal was responded by Atletico Madrid with a reply in the 67th minute. Goals created by Geoffrey Kondogbia through Angel Correa’s kick managed to equalize to 2-2. Thomas Lemar then fired a speculative shot from outside the penalty area in the 77th minute, but it was saved by Geronimo Rully.

In conclusion

Towards to the end of the match; Atletico Madrid had to be heartened as Geoffrey Kondogbia had to leave the match after receiving a second yellow card. At the end of the game both teams must be willing to share points. The result of this match put Atletico in fourth place in the standings and failed to shift Real Betis from third place in the Spanish league. While Villarreal is in eighth position with 29 points.