Super Eagles forward Ademola Lookman is 90 minutes from a maiden Champions League semi-final as Atlético Madrid host Barcelona at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano Tuesday evening, Afrik Foot reports.
Diego Simeone’s men go into the second leg in front of their home crowd with a two-goal advantage from the first leg.
Goals from Julian Alvarez and Alexander Sorloth aided an easy win for Los Rojiblancos after Pau Cubarsi was sent off 44 minutes into the game.
Atlético Madrid arrive at this second leg with a commanding advantage. Julian Álvarez opened the scoring with a superb free-kick in the first leg at the Spotify Camp Nou, before Alexander Sørloth doubled the lead 20 minutes from time to hand Simeone’s side a 2-0 win.
The dismissal of Pau Cubarsí, sent off for a last-man foul on Giuliano Simeone just before the break, proved decisive in shaping the outcome.
Barcelona travel to Madrid with a two-goal deficit to overturn, in a stadium where Atlético are notoriously difficult to break down.
This will be the fifth meeting between the two sides this season, and already the third in the space of ten days. While the Catalans won the most recent La Liga encounter 2-1 on 4 April, the Colchoneros had asserted themselves with authority in the Copa del Rey earlier in the season, winning 4-0 at the Metropolitano.
