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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Costa back on track, however, Atletico held by Bilbao

Costa back on track, however, Atletico held by Bilbao 


Diego Costa scored his first objective since October however Atletico Madrid botched the opportunity to move into La Liga's best four by drawing 1-1 away at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.

Costa celebrated by holding up the shirt of Virginia Torrecilla, a player from Atletico's ladies' group, who experienced medical procedure on a cerebrum tumor a month ago.

His equalizer came two minutes after the phenomenal Iker Muniain had given Bilbao the lead towards the finish of the main half and neither one of the sides could discover a champ at the void San Mames, with Atletico safeguard Santiago Arias passing up on the most obvious opportunity late on.

This was continually going to be one of the harder games in Atletico's disagreement however it was as yet an open door missed after individual top-four hopefuls Valencia and Getafe both neglected to win on Saturday.

Diego Simeone's side remains 6th, presently level on focuses with both Getafe and Real Sociedad before them, in spite of the fact that la Real have a game close by against Osasuna to come later on Sunday.

Athletic Bilbao stays tenth, five focuses behind Valencia in seventh.

Atletico has been among the most exceedingly awful hit Spanish groups monetarily by the coronavirus pandemic and reports in Spain this week have recommended the club would remain to lose around 100 million euros on the off chance that they neglect to meet all requirements for next season's Champions League.

They are still top choices to pip Real Sociedad, Getafe, and Valencia to fourth place yet their away structure is a worry, with this their fifth alliance game in succession out and about without a triumph.

The main group they have beaten away this year is Liverpool.

Be that as it may, Atletico's disagreement seems kind, with a visit to Camp Nou the main inconvenient looking installation before they play Real Sociedad at home on the last day.

What's more, Costa's objective will have been welcome too after the 31-year-old had quite recently come back from a quarter of a year out with a herniated plate injury before games were suspended in March.

His signal of help for Torrecilla didn't go unnoticed either. She posted a message on Twitter with an image of Costa's festival that stated: "I have no words...You are astonishing! In all seriousness".

Bilbao started to lead the pack with a noteworthy group objective as Inaki Williams changed to Yuri Berchiche on the left and he faked to cross before pulling back to Muniain, who skilfully cut the ball into the corner.

They merited their lead however wasted it quickly. Yeray Alvarez admired the sky in dissatisfaction in the wake of slanting freedom however Saul Niguez had just taken care of Koke. He jabbed a go through to Costa, who applied the completion.

Alvaro Morata supplanted Costa as one of 10 changes made by the two mentors however the most obvious opportunity tumbled on Atletico's right side back Arias, additionally on-off the seat.

Renan Lodi's cross spilled out to him at the back post however with the corner quickly expanding, Unai Simon mixed across to make the spare.

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