The French substitute striker, Antoine Griezmann, scored the winning goal for his Spanish team, Atletico Madrid, at its numerically dwarfed Portuguese guest, Porto, by 2-1, in a crazy match that witnessed the three goals scored in the last ten minutes of stoppage time, at the beginning of the second group competitions of the European Champions League. for football.
The expulsion of Iranian Porto striker Mahdi Taremi after receiving the second yellow card after claiming he fell inside the penalty area (81), was the turning point of the match.
As usual, Griezmann, loaned from Barcelona for the second season in a row, whose coach Diego Simeone is suffering for his involvement against the background of not paying the penalty to activate the clause of his immediate transfer (he entered in the 60th minute instead of Saul Negues), scored the winning goal with a header that deceived goalkeeper Diogo Costa in the 90th minute. 11.
The capital club opened the scoring in the first minute of stoppage time for the second half through its substitute defender Mario Hermoso (he replaced striker Alvaro Morata), before five minutes later he caused a penalty kick after touching the ball inside the area, which was successfully executed by Mateus Uribe, although the ball touched The hand of the Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak (90 + 6).
Atlético is going through a modest start to the season, with two wins, a 1-1 draw against Real Sociedad and a 0-2 loss at home against Villarreal in La Liga.
Colchoneros was not successful in the main continental competition, as he was eliminated from the quarter-finals last season against Manchester City, and before that from the group stage in the four seasons.
Porto, who reached the quarter-finals in 2021, was not better, as it was eliminated last season from the group stage by coming third in its group, to qualify for the European League “European League” competition, from which it was eliminated in the final price.
Simeone did not make any radical modifications to his squad, with goalkeeper Oblak remaining among the three stands after doubts about his fitness, and French Thomas Lemar and his compatriot Griezmann on the bench, while he pushed forwards Alvaro Morata and Portuguese Joao Felix, who returned and took him out to replace him with Argentine Angel Correa (71). .
Despite possessing the ball, the capital club failed to open the scoring in the first half, although Felix had several chances, but he collided with the stubbornness of the veteran defender Pepe, while Porto scored for the first time 13 minutes after the start of the whistle with a ball from Ottavio from 20 meters Goal parking passed.
Atletico thought he opened the scoring thanks to Koke, but the referee canceled the goal for offside Argentine substitute Rodrigo de Paul (50) the moment the ball reached him on the right corridor before passing it.
Atlético translated its numerical superiority in the last minutes after the expulsion of Porto Tarmi (81), before the last ten minutes witnessed a football frenzy that resulted in three goals.
In the same group, Club Brugge beat its guest, Bayer Leverkusen, 1-0, with Ivory Coast’s Abacar Sylla scoring 42.
Leverkusen scored a goal through Czech striker Patrick Shek, which was canceled by the referee for offside Jonathan Tah (74).