{"id":77862,"date":"2026-08-30T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/77862\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:41:38","slug":"sevilla-1-3-atletico-aug-29-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/77862\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevilla 1-3 Atl\u00e9tico (Aug 29, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez<\/a> was not even on the bench as Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> strolled to victory at Sevilla<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Atl\u00e9tico insisted on Thursday<\/a> that \u00c1lvarez will not be transferred to Barcelona<\/a>. But the Argentina<\/a> star didn’t train with his teammates for most of the week.<\/p>\n

He was also left out of Atl\u00e9tico’s squad for the Spanish league opener and was booed by the team’s fans in its match Sunday, when he came on as a substitute.<\/p>\n

“It’s a personal process,”\u00a0Atl\u00e9tico coach Diego Simeone said of \u00c1lvarez following Saturday’s win. “We’re here to help him in a sporting sense and for him to help us, because he’s an extraordinary player.”<\/p>\n

In the forward’s absence, \u00c1lex Baena<\/a> scored twice and Ademola Lookman<\/a> the other as Atl\u00e9tico raced into a 3-0 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

\"\u00c1lex\u00c1lex Baena celebrates his second goal in Atl\u00e9tico Madrid’s win over Sevilla.<\/p>\n

JORGE GUERRERO \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It was Sevilla’s first loss of the season.\u00a0Miguel Sierra<\/a> scored midway through the second half but it was a mere consolation as Atl\u00e9tico maintained their unbeaten start to the season, moving on to seven points after three matches.<\/p>\n

Handed his first start of the term — after coming off the bench in the win over Malaga and the draw against Villarreal<\/a>\u00a0— Baena vindicated Simeone’s decision.<\/p>\n

“[Baena’s] being a game-changer,” Simeone said. “Last year he started well. The confidence, security, the joy, the emotions of the World Cup were good for him.<\/p>\n

“Today I was saying to him that it can help him to make the most of his potential, because he’s a difference maker. We’ll demand this level of him.”<\/p>\n

Lee Kang-In<\/a> cut in from the right before playing a cute through ball to Baena, who shot first-time across Sevilla goalkeeper Odisseas Vlachodimos from an acute angle into the net after four minutes.<\/p>\n

Lookman doubled the visitors’ lead after 26 minutes, collecting the ball on the left from Pablo Barrios<\/a> and after shaping to fire across goal, he beat Vlachodimos at his near post from outside the box.<\/p>\n

Sevilla were left shellshocked seven minutes later. There appeared to be little danger when Marcos Llorente<\/a> passed to Baena on the edge of the area, but the Sevilla defence backed off and allowed the World Cup winner a sight at goal and he duly obliged by rifling low past Vlachodimos.<\/p>\n

Sevilla pulled one back in the 67th minute after Atl\u00e9tico failed to deal with Gabriel Suazo’s cross, allowing Sierra to send a left-foot volley home but the home side failed to make any more inroads.<\/p>\n

As for what lies in store for\u00a0Atl\u00e9tico ahead of the close of the transfer window on Tuesday, Simeone said: “I’m not saying it because of Juli\u00e1n, but I always say anything can happen, I say it every year. It’s football, something can always happen, but I’m not saying that for anything in particular.”<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Alex Kirkland, The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez was not even on the bench as Atl\u00e9tico Madrid strolled to victory at Sevilla. Atl\u00e9tico insisted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-77862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}