{"id":34869,"date":"2024-10-21T03:52:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=34869"},"modified":"2024-10-21T03:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:52:33","slug":"la-liga-atletico-madrid-regains-form-with-a-hard-fought-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/la-liga-atletico-madrid-regains-form-with-a-hard-fought-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;La Liga&#8221;: Atletico Madrid regains form with a hard-fought win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r9066507319281574597\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atletico Madrid bounced back with a difficult 3-1 victory over Legan\u00e9s on Sunday in the tenth round of La Liga, thanks to a brace from Norwegian Alexander S\u00f8rloth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Coach Diego Simeone&#8217;s team came into the match seeking a return to winning ways after three games without a victory, having drawn 1-1 in the league against Real Madrid and Real Sociedad, and suffering a 4-0 humiliation against Benfica in the Champions League.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the match didn&#8217;t start as Atletico had hoped, as they trailed by a goal in the first half scored by Cameroonian Ivan Neyou in the 34th minute, after an assist from Dani Raba.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The home team equalized in the second half through S\u00f8rloth after a pass from Belgian Axel Witsel (69th minute). Frenchman Antoine Griezmann then gave Atletico the lead in the 81st minute with a cross from Giuliano Simeone, Diego Simeone\u2019s son.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Griezmann was initially shown a red card in the final moments after a foul on Neyou, but the decision was downgraded to a yellow card after a VAR review.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the dying seconds of the match, S\u00f8rloth added his second goal of the game (90+9 minutes) with an assist from substitute Julian Alvarez, sealing the victory.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atletico, now with five wins this season, prepares for their Champions League clash against Lille on Wednesday, sitting third in the La Liga standings with 20 points, four points behind both leaders Barcelona and defending champions Real Madrid.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Legan\u00e9s, meanwhile, remains stuck in 17th place with just eight points.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In another match, Real Mallorca claimed their fifth win of the season by defeating Rayo Vallecano 1-0, thanks to a header from Kosovar Vedat Muriqi in the 75th minute following a corner.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Atletico Madrid bounced back with a difficult 3-1 victory over Legan\u00e9s on Sunday in the tenth round of La Liga, thanks to a brace from Norwegian Alexander S\u00f8rloth. Coach Diego Simeone&#8217;s team came into the match seeking a return to winning ways after three games without a victory, having drawn 1-1 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34872,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869\/revisions\/34872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}