Thin Win Over Celta Vigo, Atletico Madrid Secures 4th Place In La Liga

JAKARTA - The La Liga title was beyond possible for Atletico Madrid. A narrow 1-0 win at home to Celta Vigo in the 35th week, Diego Simeone's side remained in fourth place in the standings. Launching ANTARA, Atletico's winning goal was scored by Argentine midfielder Rodrigo De Paul towards the end of the second half. The win made Atletico stronger in the top four of the standings by collecting 70 points, eight ahead of Athletic Bilbao in fifth place. While Celta Vigo is still ranked 16th with 34 points from 34 matches, as quoted from the official Italian League website. Atletico immediately stepped on the gas since kick off and threatened Celta Vigo's goal several times. However, a number of attacks from Angel Correa, Samuel Lino, and Rodrigo Riquelme have not managed to score a goal. Celta Vigo several times replied through a counter-attack, but their efforts have not endangered Jan Oblak's Atletico goal too much. The first half ended without a goal.

In the second half, Simeone tried to make changes in attack by including Alvaro Morata to replace Lino. However, the change in the front line had not had an impact yet. In the second half, Vigo put more pressure on the second half even so, Atletico's defense was still solidly breached. In the 59th minute, Celta Vigo had a golden opportunity through Iago Aspas's shot in the penalty box after receiving a Bamba cross. Unfortunately Oblak managed to make a brilliant save to prevent a goal from occurring. In the 68th minute, Griezmann almost took advantage of Celta's defensive error, but his shot went wide over goal. The home team kept trying to win in order to get away from Athletic Bilbao. Their test paid off in the 84th minute, Rodrigo De Paul found a wild ball in the penalty area and threw it into the goal corner that Guaita kept to change the score to 1-0. No additional goals were created in four extra minutes of time, Atletico narrowly won 1-0 over Celta Vigo.