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<p>Atletico Madrid kept their Champions League dreams alive after hitting back from 2-0 down to stun ten-man Villarreal.</p><p>Defeat would have left Atletico eight points behind fourth-placed Villarreal in the race for the final Champions League spot and it would have been hard for the Rojiblancos to make up that gap with only 11 games remaining.</p><p>But Abel Resino's side produced one of their best displays of the season to take the points after goals from Sergio Aguero, Diego Forlan and Antonio Lopez cancelled out efforts from Matias Fernandez and Cani.</p><p>Defeat was tough on Villarreal, and especially goalkeeper Diego Lopez who kept Atletico at bay almost single-handedly for much of the match and also saved an early penalty from Forlan, but the 65th-minute dismissal of Javi Venta meant Manuel Pellegrini's side were always up against it.</p><p>The two teams came into the match following contrasting Champions League results in midweek with Atletico being knocked out by Porto but Villarreal going through to the quarter-finals at the expense of Panathinaikos.</p><p>If Atletico were in mourning following that exit though it did not show as they tore into Villarreal's injury-hit defence straight from the off.</p><p>Fortunately for the visitors, they had Lopez behind them and he was in inspirational form.</p><p>The former Real Madrid custodian's heroics started inside the opening two minutes when he saved former Villarreal favourite Forlan's penalty after Aguero had been dragged down inside the box by Sebastian Eguren.</p><p>Lopez then produced three more outstanding saves to deny Maxi Rodriguez twice and also Simao as Atletico spent the opening 15 minutes virtually camped around the Villarreal area.</p><p>The Rojiblancos were then hit with the ultimate sucker-punch in the 18th minute as Villarreal broke away to take the lead with their first real chance of the match.</p><p>Venta did well down the right and his cut-back from the byline was slammed into the roof of the net by Fernandez.</p><p>That was a huge blow for Atletico and they almost conceded a second moments later when Giuseppe Rossi put in Santi Cazorla, but the Spain international's low shot was deflected away by Leo Franco's outstretched right leg.</p><p>Lopez was then back taking centre-stage with a remarkable double stop, first to keep out Raul Garcia's 25-yard piledriver before somehow tipping Aguero's shot from the rebound around the post.</p><p>Lopez's superb performance was the main reason why an exciting first half produced only one goal, but that statistic was to change immediately after half-time as both teams scored inside the opening seven minutes.</p><p>Villarreal were first to net as they doubled their lead when a slick one-two between Rossi and Cani saw the latter break into the Atletico area before coolly dinking the ball past Leo Franco.</p><p>However, the Yellow Submarine's two-goal advantage lasted just 60 seconds before Atletico hit back through Aguero as Lopez was finally beaten.</p><p>Forlan was unlucky to see his 20-yard shot rebound back off the post but Aguero was quickest to react to the loose ball to slot home into an empty net.</p><p>That was just the response Atletico needed with their Champions League dreams seemingly slipping away, and the home side were given a further boost in the 64th minute when Villarreal lost Venta to a second yellow following a foul on Simao.</p><p>From the resulting free-kick Forlan brought another fine diving stop out of Lopez, who must have been bracing himself at that point for a busy last half-hour.</p><p>He did well to push away Ever Banega's long-range effort in the 78th minute but he could do nothing to prevent Forlan bringing Atletico level two minutes later.</p><p>A deep cross to the far post was laid-back by Maxi and Forlan slotted home first time for a goal that was celebrated as enthusiastically by the player as by the Calderon crowd.</p><p>It was to get much better for Atletico though as moments later Lopez climbed above the Villarreal defence to glance home Simao's corner and re-ignite his side's hopes of a top-four finish.</p>
 
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