Athletico madrid beat Barcelona, they are first in spanish league and this year, NO ENGLISH could match any of the first 3 spanish teams (Athletico, Barcelona and Madrid).
From any standard and from any neutral point of view, these 3 teams were stronger than all other european teams. It was a total domination for Madrid against champion Bayern Munich and a total domination from Athletico against Chelsea and again, i am not a fan of Athletico, we analyze facts as they are.
It is always very astonishing to see "fans" seeing their team playing "bad" when they lose but the reality is that it is Athletico which made Chelsea plays bad and not Chelsea who played "by definition" bad !
Let us put aside the fact that Athletico Madrid is a popular club having a budget, around 5 times less than Chelsea !
My hat to them to have build such a wonderfull team with much less money than Real Madrid, Barcelona or Chelsea ...
The pressing of Athletico and their tight defense totally neutralized any of the Chelsea plan or gameplay. It was not luck that they were able to beat Barcelona although in the first leg, they were a bit lucky but finally, overall deserved victory !
To conclude, these 3 first teams of the spanish league (especially Madrid and Athletico) were just too strong for their opponents and that's it !
It is a "shame" which is way beyond blindness to see Athletico as a "weak" team despite me beeing a fan of Barcelona ! They deserved their victory against Barcelona and even more against Chelsea who is just as crap (in the sense that they are just not able to produce anything really interesting against top opponents) as all the other "top" English teams this year.
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