Atletico Madrid beat Almeria 2-1 in LaLiga on Sunday due to first-half strikes from Alvaro Morata and Angel Correa. The outcome meant strugglers Almeria’s winless streak reached 16 video games. The underside-placed aspect additionally stay the one LaLiga aspect but to win a recreation because the begin of the season.
The complete factors took Atletico to 3rd within the league desk, stage with Barcelona on 34 factors and 5 factors behind leaders and metropolis rivals Actual Madrid.
Antoine Griezmann had a objective dominated out for offside by VAR however he helped his aspect take the lead within the seventeenth minute when he received the ball excessive up the pitch earlier than he discovered Morata, who dribbled into the field and rounded the goalkeeper to attain.
Argentine Correa doubled the lead 5 minutes later when Marcos Llorente supplied the cross from out vast for the Argentine ahead to faucet in from shut vary, one other goal-scoring transfer that was orchestrated by Griezmann.
Almeria halved the deficit by means of Leo Baptistao who scored simply after the hour-mark when the Brazilian ahead pounced on a free ball after Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak made a save.
– WIth PTI inputs