There’s no doubt Saturday was a tough night for Barca for a variety of reasons. Atletico inflicted a third defeat of the season on the Catalans, Diego Simeone enjoyed his first league win over Barca, leaving Ronald Koeman’s side now nine points behind the Rojiblancos.
The two teams have only played eight games, and there’s a still a very long way to go in the season, but that’s already looking like an ominous gap between the two clubs. Atletico remain unbeaten and have still conceded just two goals in La Liga in 2020-21.
It’s been a great start to the new campaign by Simeone’s men and an utterly miserable one from Koeman’s side.