What a thrilling game of football between two teams that demonstrated their skill in different ways, albeit it could be the blunders that define this fight between cross-city rivals.
The first half of normal time ended *checks notes* 1-1 after mistakes by Rüdiger and Oblak allowed both sides to score, before the true mayhem began.
The second half was another chaotic 45 minutes, with Morata putting his team ahead following a Lunin error, but Joselu levelled things up with little time left, forcing extra time.
As we approached minute 100, Vinicius Jr made a mistake, allowing Griezmann to receive the ball on the right wing and score the goal of the game, probably the round, and possibly the entire tournament. He took the ball from the sideline and raced inside, around his marker, before crashing a lightning bolt off the bar and into the stadium, rebounding it back.
Madrid pushed and pushed, but it was not meant to be. After throwing everything they had against the red and white wall, an Atlético counter-attack caught Los Blancos off surprise, and Rodrigo Riquelme propelled his team into the quarter-finals with only a few minutes remaining.
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