Antoine Griezmann scored a brilliant 100th-minute winner to settle a raucous, anarchic six-goal Madrid-derby Cup last-16 game that started Thursday night and finished just inside Friday morning.
It rained goals; it rained yellow cards, and the man who was honored before the game for having already become Atletico’s all-time top scorer made the most decisive contribution.
Griezmann had had a relatively quiet night, but in the first half of extra time with all around him running out of gas, he accelerated down the right away from Vinicius, who was chasing back desperately trying to make amends having given the ball away and rifled the ball into the roof of Andriy Lunin’s net.
The goal knocked Real Madrid out of the cup and served up a hard-fought revenge for Atletico, who had been beaten 5-3 by them in the Spanish Super Cup just five days before.
Real Madrid had the better of the first phase of the marathon slugging match and when Bellingham led Atletico Madrid’s defense a merry dance weaving around Axel Witsel and Rodrigo de Paul his shot hit the crossbar.