Feyenoord wins heated practice match against Atlético Madrid in injury time

Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 6:58 PM• Dominic Mostert • Last update: 19:20

Feyenoord won the friendly match against Atlético Madrid on Sunday evening. In the traditional opening game for the new season, Feyenoord took the lead via Bryan Linssen, after which Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco received a red card for kicking Tyrell Malacia. Feyenoord thus played a large part of the match with one man more, but in the final phase of the match, Ángel Correa scored the equalizer. In the last seconds of injury time, a counterattack resulted in Naoufal Bannis making it 2-1.

Feyenoord started the match daringly and emphatically sought the goal of Jan Oblak, but Atlético also bit off in the first fifteen minutes. A shot by Mario Hermoso was blocked in time and a header from José María Giménez went over the goal through the ground. Gernot Trauner’s pass back to goalkeeper Justin Bijlow even looked like an own goal, but the ball went just wide. Feyenoord came to 1-0 after eighteen minutes: after a short corner the ball ended up via Orkun Kökcü at Marcos Senesi, who kept the overview and saw how Linssen shot in the 1-0.

Atlético, who came to De Kuip without Luis Suárez, João Felix, Kieran Trippier and Renan Lodi, looked for Feyenoord’s goal area more after the downer and put Bijlow to work. The goalkeeper made a good save on a Hermoso header and then he made a good save on the goal line on a bet by Thomas Lemar. Six minutes before the break, the flames went up when Ferreira-Carrasco was trumped by Malacia on the left and kicked in front of the linesman. It led to some disturbances on the field and a red card for the Belgian, who had to be calmed down by Simeone running through the field. Thus had to los Colchoneros before half-time with ten men further.

Feyenoord and Atlético each started the second half with four new players; the rest of the teams were substituted later in the second half, apart from Oblak and Hermoso at Atlético. The 2-0 was initially more emphatically in the air than the 1-1. A pooier from Malacia was parried by Oblak, Marcos Senesi headed just over the goal from a corner and João Carlos Teixeira also saw Oblak save. Feyenoord failed to decide the game and gave Atlético the space to come alongside. Goalkeeper Ofir Marciano made a good save in a one-on-one situation with Sergio Camello, but the visitors were able to rebuild and Correa eventually outsmarted the substitute goalkeeper. It seemed to be 1-1, but in injury time Feyenoord was able to counterattack. Ridgeciano Haps found Bannis with a razor-sharp pass and the striker scored face to face with Oblak.



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