FC Barcelona begin their first major road trip of the season tomorrow, when they travel north to Asturias to take on Sporting Gijon at El Molinon. Following a midweek draw with Atletico Madrid, the Blaugrana missed a chance to close the ground on league leaders, Real Madrid, who dropped their first points of the season earlier on Wednesday evening at home to Villarreal. In that sense, the draw was a very much a missed opportunity, particularly after the dominance displayed in the first half, but let’s not lose faith either.
Atletico Madrid are an exceptionally strong team, and irrespective of how they started this season, you better be sure that they will be there or thereabouts at the end of this campaign, and that’s true across all three major competitions.