If Atletico Madrid were glum after the defeat to city rival Real last week, then they managed to lift that gloom on Sunday afternoon, with the routine dismissal of relegation battlers Osasuna serving to make everything in the club’s garden rosy again.
At least that’s what they’ll want you to think.
There is, of course, a long way to go in Atleti’s season.
They are not quite firing on all cylinders, and they aren’t where they want to be in the league table, which is still led by their city rivals, who triumphed in a rainy Madrid 24 hours before Atletico won 3-0 in the decidedly friendlier climbs of northern Spain.