I think Atletico Madrid have missed their chance this season. Even though they still have 9 games left, but it's hard to catch Barcelona if they keep playing like this. They did indeed look more dominant in the match against Espanyol and they even had a lot of chances, but unfortunately, they wasted too many of those chances and only had 2 shots on target. Never mind Barcelona, I don't think they will even be able to catch Real Madrid. If Real Madrid gets a win against Leganes, then they will be 6 points away, which is a pretty tough gap to overcome with Atletico's current level of form.
That's right, it's confirmed now because in the end their current form won't be able to make the difference.
But actually this is not too strange for Atletico because they always feel the same thing every season where the increase in performance and decline occurs quickly and unexpectedly so that even though this is a bit unfortunate for Atletico because there are not a few who hope that the competition of 3 clubs runs until the end of the season but it seems that only 2 clubs can do it until the end.
Hopefully they can still rise in this case because if in the end their performance remains the same as now, it could be that apart from La Liga, the competition for their only chance to get the trophy, the Copa del Rey, is also released because of their poor performance which has been carried over in recent weeks.
Poor results in the end Simeone could not stand even though they were quite stretched at the beginning of the season especially with the arrival of several players but in the end they were unable to compete fully in 1 season and only became a stumbling block and extras from Barcelona and Madrid.