Atletico thrash Real Madrid 5-2 in thrilling derby as Alvarez grabs brace

Julian Alvarez scores doubly arsenic Atletico came from down to inflict a archetypal decision of the play connected metropolis rivals Real.

Julian Alvarez scored doubly arsenic Atletico Madrid came from down to thrash metropolis rivals Real Madrid 5-2 successful a pulsating derby that handed the La Liga leaders their archetypal nonaccomplishment aft a cleanable commencement to the season.

The thrilling brushwood astatine a raucous Metropolitano stadium saw Atletico combat backmost from 2-1 down to assertion a memorable triumph that lifted them to 4th spot with 12 points.

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Real Madrid stay apical of La Liga connected 18 points, 2 up of Barcelona, who person a crippled successful hand.

Atletico’s assertive commencement paid disconnected erstwhile Robin Le Normand opened the scoring with a header successful the 14th minute.

However, Kylian Mbappe burst done to level with an unstoppable onslaught from adjacent scope successful a speedy antagonistic successful the 25th minute, with Arda Guller netting a volley from a Vinicius Jr transverse 11 minutes aboriginal to enactment the visitors successful front.

Alexander Sorloth’s header successful added clip earlier the interruption gave Atletico a boost and they regained the pb 5 minutes into the 2nd fractional erstwhile Alvarez converted a punishment aft Guler’s precocious footwear clipped rival Nico Gonzalez connected the look wrong the box.

After Alvarez extended their pb successful the 64th infinitesimal with a sublime escaped footwear into the apical corner, substitute Antoine Griezmann sealed the triumph successful a speedy antagonistic successful added time.

Alvarez’s show was saccharine redemption aft his arguable double-kick punishment contributed to Atletico losing to Madrid successful past season’s Champions League.

Diego Simeone’s Atletico dealt Xabi Alonso his archetypal nonaccomplishment of the play aft Madrid had won each six La Liga games and its Champions League opener. Alonso’s lone different nonaccomplishment since taking implicit arsenic Madrid’s manager successful the summertime was against Paris Saint-Germain successful the Club World Cup semifinals successful July.

Barcelona tin overtake person Madrid with a triumph astatine Real Sociedad connected Sunday.

Real Madrid manager Alonso admitted that his broadside deserved to suffer the game.

“We were atrocious astatine everything. We couldn’t drawstring passes together, we couldn’t triumph duels, we couldn’t make chances,” helium said.

“We request to analyse what happened and get better, and we will.”

The Madrid manager tried to find positives from this achy decision arsenic helium looked up to the remainder of the season.

“This is simply a process,” helium said. “We’re successful a signifier wherever we’re gathering an identity. We volition get better, for sure.”