Atlético snatches the lead from Real Madrid after beating Osasuna

MADRID.- Atlético de Madrid snatched the lead this Sunday from real Madrid after beating Osasuna 1-0 in the Metropolitano on matchday 19 and adding their fourteenth consecutive victory in all competitions, a record in the history of the colchonero club.

Lacking offensive inspiration, the red and white team, which has 44 points, one more than the white team, won thanks to a goal from Argentine Julián Álvarez (55) after a corner kicked by Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, in a rehearsed play that featured a header assist from the French central defender, Clement Lenglet.

Furthermore, the result allows Diego Simeone’s pupils to become the winter champion and gain a six-point difference over Barcelona, ​​which was playing this Sunday in the final of the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid, in the third edition of the Classic in Saudi Arabia.

The incorporations of Álvarez and also those of the Norwegian Alexander Sorloth, the Englishman Conor Gallagher and Robin Le Normand have proven successful and Atlético has reaffirmed itself as a candidate to become LaLiga champion.

“This doesn’t end here”

Decisive again, Griezmann opened the scoring at the beginning of the match (8), but the goal was annulled after the VAR review for touching a cross by Argentine Nahuel Molina with his arm.

Central defender Jorge Herrando gave the locals a scare in the 23rd minute of the first half with a header that went just past the post and in which the Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak was left halfway out.

Atlético was able to widen the difference in injury time (90+1) after a cross from Javi Galán hit the post after an attempted clearance by the Navarrese defense.

“This does not end here, there are many games left and we have to continue working. The goal is a play that we practice these days, it serves to continue adding three,” Álvarez declared to the Movistar+ television network at the end of the game.

“I had several in the first half that I couldn’t score and I had a bit of a fight at half-time. In the end one fell on me in the second half and I’m very happy,” continued the Argentine attacker.