Ali Moreno
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There's nothing to criticize about Barcelona's performance today.
The amount of pressure that they put on Atletico Madrid, how they were able to press and repress the ball and force turnovers and be on top of Atletico Madrid and creating opportunities and creating chances.
In the end, I think it's something that Luis just mentioned there, they seem to run out of ideas and run out of legs because they have put so much of the effort in the first 45 minutes in trying to give themselves a sense of belief that maybe, just maybe, they were going to be able to do this.
Again, about today's performance, you really would have to nitpick and kind of say, well, they could have done this or they could have done that.
You won the game, you dominated Atletico Madrid in every facet of the game.
You wanted three nothing, but you needed four.
So to your point, yes, everything was done, or all the damage was done in that first leg.
As for Atletico Madrid, I don't know if I should congratulate Atletico Madrid in going through to the final.
They certainly don't care whether I congratulate them or not, and Diego Simone wouldn't care either.
They just wanna be through and that's it.
I just think there is so much more for this team to give in terms of challenging Barcelona's possession today.
They were so accommodating for Barcelona and just withstanding pressure and sitting behind the ball and inviting Barcelona.
Fine, invite Barcelona all you want, but you have to have a threat in the attack that can turn Barcelona around.
We have no question Barcelona is going to score.
The question is whether they can keep Atletico Madrid from scoring.
And Atletico Madrid never really gave themselves an opportunity to go and try to test Barcelona.