At the weekend, Alexander Sørloth was in the right place and put the ball safely in for a match-winning goal in the final minutes against Alaves. The Norwegian striker has a nice pronounced goal is like ketchup. When the red mass finally comes through the stopper in the bottle, it comes abundantly. We therefore had high expectations for the Atletico Madrid striker in Tuesday’s Champions League match against Sparta Prague.
And the ketchup continued to flow, even though Sørloth himself was not credited with scoring.
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The Dane Lars Friis led Sparta to a football night that the home supporters would rather repress. 0-6 the club had to endure against an Atletico with Julian Alvarez, Sørloth and Griezmann and Correra on four.
Alvarez started by running through Sparta’s entire defense before being fouled in front of the goalkeeper. The Argentine himself put the penalty safely into the goal.
With ten minutes left before half-time, it was extremely close to a 0-2 lead, when Atletico sent Alexander Sørloth and Alvarez through on a counterattack. The Argentine striker set up Sørloth, who made the chance even bigger with a nice shot to finish. Vindahl in the Sparta cage made a great save that kept hope alive for the home team.
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This lasted only five minutes. The Danish goalkeeper just had to watch as Marcos Llorente sent a delicious cross into the box. Sørloth had timed his run to perfection, and it looked like the Norwegian wanted to cut the ball, but he just let it fly over his head, and then Vindahl couldn’t react. 0-2 to Atletico!
For us, this was a goal credited to Sørloth.
In the second half, Alvarez continued with another goal, then substitute Griezmann in his 100. Champions League match. Angel Correra added two more in the last five minutes to make it 0-6.
