The year 2007 has begun to Atletico Madrid with an inappropiate mistake at Vicente Calderon against Gimnastic of Tarragona that, in spite of playing as bottom of the table, it ended with a 0 tie and getting a point from the red and white coliseum. Javier Aguirre’s men lost the battle at the midle of the field against a rival that exhibited at the final stage of 2006, becoming at the nightmare of the defence from the sides, though the ball’s cut provision from the middle of the field made difficult the work attack, something they suffered, the captain and his forward teammate ‘Kun’ Agüero.

Torres asumed the red and white striker responsablitity at the first minutes, starting a good run at the wings, but they didn’t find a shotter at the area. Nastic reacted looking for the weak point of its rival: at the middle of the field. With the leavesicks of Maniche, Costinha and Luccin, the starter duo by Jurado and Gabi didn’t achieve to imposed its law against a serious and tidy rival that dominate at the middle of the field. Ruben Castro warned at a double match, first with a shot that left very near of the right post and later in an action that Leo Franco left before that the forward from Canarias shotted at the empty goal.

Atletico Madrid wasn’t getting closer with danger to Ruben Perez’s areas, taking advantage of long balls and whithout clear ideas Torres and Agüero didn’t recieve balls and hardly worried to its rival. On the contrary, Nastic scared again with two actions of Metellan and Campano that could open the socoreboard against the break.

Javier Aguirre organize again his team at the secong half giving entered to Mista instead Antonio Lopez. The incorporation of one more player at the Atletico’s attack made an inciseve Atletico and, this time, the opportunities started to come. Agüero culminate a long run with a pass to the area which left to Galletti alone with the goalkeeper, though the Argentinian made the most difficult part making a mistake to shot to a empty goal. Pernia tried also in a foul play, though the goalkeeper deflected the shot.

‘Kun’ Agüero could achieve the goal then minutes before to the end of the second part when face up with Ruben, but the goalkeeper won one more time to intercept the flat shot from the Argentinian. The stopwatch was running towards the end of the match and the rush took over the red and white team, a circumnstance that add to the numerical inferiority for the sending off Gabi after seeing the second card. The match coudn’t do any more until the whistle, just the last occasion of Nastic from a foul play that made a new action that Leo Franco could save.

Finally both teams got a point that didn’t benefit to Atletico, since the red and white team gave the fourth place to Real Zaragoza after the victory against Sevilla.


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