Atlético Madrid vs Barcelona, ​​Copa del Rey: final score 0-1 (4-5 AGG), Barça advances for the final of the Spanish Cup with a victory of Road

Barcelona takes place until 2025 Copa del Rey Final mercury to a hard victory played 1-0 on the second floor of their equality in the semi-finals against Atlético Madrid at the Estadio Metropolitano Wednesday evening. Barça won its head after having completely dominated the first half and showed a huge combat spirit and resilience to survive a well-improved Atlético in the second, and the goal of Ferran Torres was sufficient to reserve a place in the match for the title against Real Madrid in Seville at the end of this month.

First semester

Diego Simeone’s men came out with the exact approach you expect from a desperate team to save their season: the Colchoneros were aggressive and physical from the start, supporting very high and making difficult challenges to try to set the tone for the night.

They had the chance to escape without a red card in the first 10 minutes, because César Azpilicueta and Rodrigo de Paul approached Raphinha High with their nails, and the referee was even called on the screen, but decided not to leave the team at home with 10 men early.

The response of Barça was to simply resist the early storm, to take control of the ball and to completely dominate the rest of the half, forcing in Atleti to defend itself more and more deeply as a Blaugrana moved the ball with a goal and found spaces inside the last third to create good chances.

They took the lead shortly before the half-hour brand when Lamine Yamal played a sensational ball to find Ferran Torres who marked the opening with a neat finish, and the Catalans had at least three excellent opportunities to double their advance but did not quite apply the final touch.

Atlético looked more and more desperate and out of the ideas because they simply could not bring the ball back to try to injure the Barça on the counter, and started to clog over and over again, which led to an accumulation of yellow cards and to a growing feeling of anger and frustration of the last time, of the Simeone and the fans, which makes the atmosphere very tense last minutes of half.

The whistle at half-time ended up ending a period completely dominated by Barça, which was 45 minutes from the match for the title if they could maintain their composure and their control of the game. But Atleti would certainly not go down without fighting, and the second half promised to be stretched and intense while the hosts seemed to remain alive by all the necessary means.

Second half

Simeone went to work at halftime and made three substitutions and a training switch, going to a more attacker 3-4-3 form and convincing his team to play real football with a good width, a strong presence in the box in the form of Alexander Sorloth and high pressing.

Barça could simply not control itself with all the changes in Atleti and had trouble keeping the ball, losing possession in dangerous positions and allowing real chances at the back. Sorho missed an enormous individual opportunity for six minutes in half-time, and the equalization of Atleti seemed to be a matter of time.

Barça managed to slow down the game a little in the next 10 minutes, and Hansi Flick has made two changes to the brand with Ronald Araujo and Eric García to try to solidify the midfielder and add more strength and height to the backline to cope with the sorlow threat. The Norwegian striker almost scored his usual goal against Barça with 20 minutes to do, but he was excluded for offside.

Atlético continued to increase the pressure towards the last 15 minutes, and Flick sent to Robert Lewandowski seeking to add a more physical presence in advance to relieve part of the burden confronted with the defense of Barça. The change worked and the Catalans finally had a few periods of prolonged possession for the first time in the second period, and had more figures forward and a few keys in the opposition box to keep Atleti honest.

The two teams seemed visibly exhausted when we reached the last five minutes, and Barça has become more and more defensive to try to protect their narrow advance. Flick brought Gerard Martín in place of Yamal for additional protection at the rear, and the BlaugranaThe only goal was to waste time at the end.

The plan worked despite the fact that Atletico sent several crosses to the death box, but Araujo and his teammates did enough to guarantee the white sheet while the final whistle came to send Barça to Seville on April 26, where they will meet Real Madrid for the third time this season with the Spanish Cup trophy on the line.

The series of the four games season against Atlético is over, and the Colchoneros gave Barça everything they could manage in 2024-25. But thank God, we don’t have to play them again for a while.

Well done, boys!

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Atlético: Musso; Llorente, Azpilicueta (Lenglet 46 ‘), Giménez, Le Normand (Molina 58’), Reinildo (Galán 46 ‘); De Paul, Barrios, Simeone (Sorloth 46 ‘); Alvarez, Griezmann (Riquelme 81 ‘)

Goals: None

Barcelona: SZCZESNY; Kounde, Cubarsí (Araujo 58 ‘), Iñigo, Balde; Fermín (Eric 58 ‘), de Jong, Pedri; Yamal (Martín 86 ‘), Ferran (Lewandowski 74’), Raphinha

Aim: Ferran (27 ‘)