Atletico Madrid had an extremely difficult schedule with two city derbies that went to extra time in the Spanish Super Cup and the King's Cup with Real Madrid, Ćolo Simeone combined and scored - the "colćoneros" beat Valencia 2:0 in the 22nd round of La Liga.
"Bats" were a subordinate team, Atlético in excellent form and Stefan Savić was unstoppable for the entire 90 minutes. They were looking for his handball at the beginning of the game, but VAR was inexorable - there was no penalty.
And Atletico took the lead with a goal by Samuel Lin, who spent last season on loan in Valencia - in the fourth minute he was assisted by Antoine Griezmann in stoppage time.
Argentinian Nahuel Molina is in 57th minute assisted the ever-improving Memphis Depay for 2:0, and Simeone immediately made as many as four changes, but the result did not change.
Valencia ended the streak of four victories that they deserved after the draw with Barcelona at "Mestalla".
Previously, Sevilla drew with Osasuna (1:1), and Bilbao played without goals in Cadiz. In the first game today, Girona won 1:0 against Celta in Vigo.
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