16. 22 FEBRUARY 2017- Football - UEFA Champion
League 16/17- Bayer Leverkusen 2-4 Atletico Madrid: Atletico hold first-leg
advantage.
LEVERUSEN- Atletico Madrid have the advantage after beating
Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League clash
at the BayArena on Tuesday night.
The visitors led 2-0 at the break after goals from Saul
Niguez (17) and Antoine Griezmann (25), who became his club's record European
Cup goalscorer in the process, only for Leverkusen to reduce the deficit
through Karim Bellarabi three minutes into the second half.
However, the home side's joy was short-lived as
Kevin Gameiro's penalty restored Atleti's two-goal lead and despite Stefan
Savic's own goal giving Leverkusen hope of another comeback, substitute
Fernando Torres scored late on to leave Diego Simeone's team holding all the
aces.
Leverkusen were without defender Lars Bender after
the Germany international lost his race to be fit for the clash. Meanwhile,
Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak returned from the dislocated shoulder he suffered
back in December, although the Slovenia international had to settle for a place
on the substitutes' bench.
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