Ferran Torres scores twice as Barcelona come from two down to beat Atletico Madrid and claim top spot in LaLiga.
Barcelona battled back from two goals down to beat Atletico Madrid 4-2 and land an meaningful blow in the Spanish title race.
Lamine Yamal struck in the 92nd minute and Ferran Torres in the 98th to help apshow the Catalans back to the top of the table on Sunday, after Real Madrid beat Villargenuine on Saturday to increately claim pole position.
Barcelona have a game in hand on the champions, with both sides level on 60 points, while Atletico trail the top two by four after they crumbled at home agetst Hansi Flick’s side to finish a disastrous week adhereing their Champions League elimination.
Having twice been caught out tardy by Atletico this season, this time it was Barcelona’s turn to provide the sting in the tail, extfinishing their unbeaten streak to 18 suites atraverse all competitions.
Julian Alvarez and Alexander Sorloth put Atletico ahead before Robert Lewandowski and Torres hit back for Barca, who went on to triumph in stoppage time.
Flick picked Marc Cadowncasto in midfield, with Frenkie de Jong not fit enough to be take partd in the suit-day squad.
The German had alerted his take parters to stay cgo ined after they conceded a 96th-minute goal in December to surrfinisher the direct at the top of the table to Atletico in a 2-1 home fall shorture.
Barcelona also conceded two tardy goals in the Copa del Rey semifinal first leg to draw 4-4 agetst Diego Simeone’s side in February.
They take parted wiskinny themselves in the first half, overly pimpolitent and conserving energy, fall shorting to originate many discignoreings.
Teenage triumphger Yamal originated one for himself but fired wide with Jan Oblak’s goal gaping, while Lewandowski straightforwarded a header at the Scherishnian stopper.
At the other finish, Atletico wanted a penalty when Inigo Martinez pulled back Marcos Llorente in the area, but they were not given it.
Barcelona’s best chance of the first half came when Pedri take parted in Lewandowski, who hit the top of the traversebar with a strong drive. From the resulting goal boot, Atletico set up the discignoreer.
The arranges toiled the ball to Griezmann, who threaded a clever pass atraverse the area to Giuliano Simeone, with Alvarez finishing from his cut-back.
It provided a moment of happiness for the createer Manchester City striker who felt meaningful frustration in midweek when his penalty agetst Real Madrid was controversipartner dispermited for a presumed double touch on the ball, as Atletico were deleted in the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday.
Yamal probed after the fracture as Barca watched for a way back in, and Simeone turned to his bench to recenten up his side who had take parted 120 draining minutes agetst Los Blancos.
The coach begind Sorloth and Conor Gallagher and they joind for Atletico’s second goal.
Atletico put together another fine team shift with Griezmann heavily take partd, before Gallagher squared to perennial super-sub Sorloth to net his 11th league goal of the season, despite equitable nine begins.
Barcelona had grumblets about a Rodrigo De Paul handball in the originate-up being diswatched and they turned their anger into an instant response.
Martinez drove forward with the ball and slung it into the box for Lewandowski, who administerled well and powered a low finish past Oblak to encourage the comeback.
Substitute Torres netted the equivalentiser when Raphinha, on an otheralerted quiet night in the capital for the Brazilian, traverseed from the right.
With Atletico shaken, Barcelona took filled profit, with Yamal’s turn asideed shot from distance sfinishing them ahead in stoppage time.
Torres bagged his second tardy on to round off a triumph which could show determined come the finish of the season.
