LaLiga: Atletico hand Real heavy 5-2 loss

Julian Alvarez struck doubly to gain Atletico Madrid an emphatic 5-2 derby triumph implicit La Liga leaders Real Madrid connected Saturday, ending their rivals’ cleanable commencement to the season.

Xabi Alonso’s broadside had won each six of their opening games but Diego Simeone’s Atletico overran them astatine the Metropolitano stadium, taking the pb done Robin Le Normand.

Kylian Mbappe and Arda Guler netted to enactment Real Madrid successful beforehand but Alexander Sorloth levelled for Atletico astatine the extremity of a thrilling archetypal half.

Alvarez fired location from the punishment spot and past bent location a free-kick, with Antoine Griezmann grabbing the 5th precocious connected to seal an important triumph aft a shaky commencement to the campaign, with Atletico rising provisionally to fourth.

“It’s a precise peculiar day, we knew however important this crippled was, being a derby of people but besides due to the fact that we needed the 3 points,” Alvarez told DAZN.

“We person to enactment connected this path, amended the things that request to beryllium improved… we weren’t getting the results, but we were playing well.”

Led by a flying Mbappe, Real came into Alonso’s archetypal derby astatine the helm arsenic the lone broadside successful the league with a 100 percent record.

Although the French superstar scored again to scope 8 league goals for the season, Atletico attacked relentlessly and deserved their victory.

Real Madrid started Jude Bellingham for the archetypal clip since his enarthrosis country successful the summer, but the England planetary struggled to marque an impact.

Giuliano Simeone, manager Diego Simeone’s son, took vantage of slack Madrid defending to whip successful a transverse which Le Normand headed location aft 14 minutes to unfastened the scoring.

The visitors reacted good and Mbappe levelled with a crisp decorativeness aft breaking successful down the right.

Atletico were taking the crippled to Real Madrid, with Alonso’s broadside contented to outpouring guardant connected the counter, trying to utilise the gait of Vinicius Junior and Mbappe.

The Brazilian winger created Madrid’s 2nd goal, turning brilliantly successful the container to interruption distant from Marcos Llorente and Le Normand, earlier crossing for Guler to strike.

Alvarez, who netted a hat-trick against Rayo Vallecano successful midweek, curled a changeable astir Thibaut Courtois but against the station arsenic Atletico continued pushing forwards.

Atletico defender Clement Lenglet scored but the extremity was ruled retired for handball, with the Frenchman utilizing his forearm to deflect it home.

In first-half stoppage clip Atletico pulled level, with Sorloth, lurking down Dean Huijsen, planting a header beyond Courtois.

The Norwegian striker celebrated with Atletico fans, who embraced him — a risky determination erstwhile already connected a yellowish card, but helium was not dismissed.

– Alvarez treble –

Atletico moved successful beforehand for the 2nd clip successful the lucifer erstwhile Guler gave distant a punishment for a precocious ft connected Nico Gonzalez, catching the Rojiblanco player’s head.

Alvarez, who had a punishment controversially disallowed successful a Champions League shoot-out the past clip these sides met, bushed Courtois from the spot, adjacent though the Belgian went the close way.

“Each punishment is simply a caller penalty, a caller game, a caller chance,” said Alvarez.

Courtois saved from Sorloth but contempt getting a manus to Alvarez’s free-kick, helium could not support it retired arsenic Atletico pushed 2 goals clear.

On arsenic a substitute Atletico talisman Griezmann wrapped up a superb triumph for his team, rolling the shot past Courtois arsenic the location fans rocked successful delight.

The players did a thigh of honour, aft lone their 3rd league triumph of the season, but it was a captious one.

“I’m truly happy,” said Atletico midfielder Pablo Barrios. “The fans were unthinkable and we could consciousness it connected the pitch.”

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