There was extra of the identical within the newest Madrid derby at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
Again, Real Madrid averted defeat. Again, Atletico Madrid complained concerning the refereeing.
Madrid scored late to attract 1-1 within the Spanish league on Saturday, and prolong its unbeaten streak towards the town rival at residence to seven years.
Atletico performed with 10 males from the sixty fourth minute after ahead Ángel Correa was proven a disputed purple card for elbowing Madrid defender Antonio Rüdiger.
“Nothing new at the Bernabéu,” Atletico tweeted after the match. It additionally complained concerning the officiating after a Copa del Rey loss on the Bernabéu final month.
Atletico coach Diego Simeone stated Correa’s motion was not harsh sufficient to benefit a purple card.
“There was contact but it was not a strike,” Simeone stated. “Rüdiger immediately got up. Maybe it was a yellow, but it was not enough to take a player out of the game. There wouldn’t be any players left if they always called that. This keeps happening all the time against us, it has become normal, and that’s not right. It would be nice to be able to compete under the same conditions. Every time we come here, the calls go against us.”
Atletico additionally posted on Twitter a photograph of a bloody leg of whom it known as “our aggressor” through the match. “Still nothing new on the Bernabéu,” it added.
“Five derbies in a row with a red card,” Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak stated. “Maybe the next one we start with 10 men.”
Teenage Madrid striker Álvaro Rodríguez scored within the eighty fifth minute after Atletico opened via José María Giménez within the 78th and was poised to finish its winless drought on the Bernabéu relationship to 2016.
The draw left Madrid seven factors behind Barcelona forward of the latter’s match at relegation-threatened Almeria on Sunday.
“It was tough before this match, and now it can become even tougher,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti stated. “All we can do is keep fighting until the last match.”
Madrid was coming off a 5-2 come-from-behind win at Liverpool within the Champions League, and was making an attempt to win its sixth consecutive sport in all competitions.
The end result saved Atletico, unbeaten within the Spanish league since early January, from shifting to 3rd place forward of Real Sociedad, which misplaced at struggling Valencia 1-0 late Saturday. Atletico stayed one level behind the Basque Country group.
When Madrid gained the earlier derby in January, additionally on the Bernabéu, to advance to the Copa semifinals, Atletico claimed Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos ought to have been despatched off for a tough foul when Atletico was forward.
On Saturday, Atletico defender Reinildo injured his proper knee halfway via the primary half and was carried off on a stretcher.
Before the match, Madrid honored Amancio Amaro, the Nineteen Sixties and 70s membership nice who died final week.
Madrid on Thursday hosts Barcelona within the first leg of the Copa del Rey semis. Atletico hosts Sevilla within the league on Saturday.
VALENCIA WINS AGAIN
Valencia edged Sociedad to finish a six-game dropping streak in all competitions and go away the relegation zone.
Valencia’s first league win since earlier than the World Cup lifted the membership to seventeenth place, one level outdoors the relegation zone. The winner got here from an personal purpose by Sociedad midfielder Igor Zubeldia within the fortieth.
It was Valencia’s second match below new coach Rubén Baraja.
Before the match, 1000’s of Valencia followers once more protested towards Singaporean proprietor Peter Lim. The crowd at Mestalla Stadium additionally jeered Lim and known as for him to go away the membership.
BRAITHWAITE’S BRACE
Denmark worldwide Martin Braithwaite scored in every half as Espanyol defeated Mallorca 2-1 to maneuver additional away from the relegation zone.
Espanyol, in twelfth place, has gained two consecutive league matches for the primary time this season.
CADIZ THRIVES AT HOME
Sergi Guardiola scored a 74th-minute winner as Cadiz defeated Rayo Vallecano 1-0.
Cadiz is unbeaten within the league at residence in 9 matches. The southern membership was three factors above the drop zone.
Rayo stayed in sixth place.
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