Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid, April 2016
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The latest game on the charge sheet is Barcelona’s recent encounter against Atletico Madrid. The game was the tale of two strikers playing for opposite teams.
Atletico Madrid took the lead in the 25th minute courtesy of a wonderful finish from Fernando Torres. However, ten minutes later, the Spaniard was in the headlines for the wrong reasons.
Torres was shown a second yellow card for a mistimed tackle on Sergio Busquets. The yellow card was quite harsh considering that Busquets had lost control of the ball and Torres would have been through on goal if he won it.
If we accept the fact that Torres deserved that yellow, then another former Liverpool striker on the pitch also deserved to get sent off on the same night and that was Luis Suarez.
Suarez clearly kicked out at Juanfran in the first half of the game in anger and frustration. At this point Atletico had all their players on the pitch and were leading the game. The referee failed to spot the incident, but the cameras picked it up.
On any other day it would have been a direct red card offense, but the Uruguayan was lucky to remain on the pitch. In the second half he was shown a yellow for throwing his hand in the face of Filipe Luis. Both incidents were worthy of a direct red card, but Suarez played the full game and scored two goals to win the game for his side.
The number-advantage Barcelona had clearly played a role in their win and if Atletico had their full complement or if Barcelona were also down to 10 men, then the outcome could have been different as this Atletico Madrid side is one of best teams defensively.
What’s worse is that Suarez will not face any action for his behaviour and will play the second leg.
