Sounders on brink of CWC exit after loss to Atleti

Pablo Barrios' brace lifted Atlético Madrid to a 3-1 triumph implicit the Seattle Sounders FC connected Thursday, getting the Spanish side's Group B run backmost connected track.

Axel Witsel besides scored arsenic Atlético rebounded to triumph astatine Seattle's location tract aft they began their FIFA Club World Cup run losing 4-0 to Paris Saint-Germain successful Southern California.

The effect pulls the Rojiblancos adjacent connected points with PSG and Botafogo, who volition conscionable successful their 2nd lucifer aboriginal connected Thursday.

Albert Rusnák scored aft halftime for Seattle, which fell to the brink of elimination contempt playing a 2nd consecutive crippled earlier its location supporters.

The Sounders' knockout-phase hopes volition officially beryllium quashed if PSG wins oregon draws against Botafogo.

The 22-year-old Barrios scored aboriginal successful each fractional for the archetypal brace of his elder nine career.

Barrios' archetypal extremity enactment Atlético successful beforehand successful the 11th infinitesimal to headdress a furious commencement for the Spanish club.

Giuliano Simeone did overmuch of the work, moving onto a done shot into the close borderline of the punishment area, cutting backmost to elude a defender and past dragging a debased transverse toward the punishment arc. Barrios met it successful stride and deed a first-time, right-footed changeable that rattled the underside of the crossbar connected its mode in.

Barrios' 2nd successful the 55th infinitesimal was simpler, arsenic helium was permitted clip and abstraction to deed a half-volley past goalkeeper Stefan Frei aft Seattle's nonaccomplishment to wide Marcos Llorente's agelong propulsion from the right.

Before halftime, Atlético had an evident accidental to treble their pb from the punishment spot taken distant aft referee Yael Falcon Perez reversed his archetypal determination aft a video review.

The sides past traded goals successful the archetypal 5 minutes of the 2nd half. In the 47th, Witsel headed location from wrong the 6-yard container successful the resulting scramble aft Frei pushed Llorente's archetypal half-volley onto the crossbar.

In the 50th, Rusnak scored from a akin scope connected a deflected changeable aft Atletico's nonaccomplishment to woody with Seattle's archetypal shot into the box.