Atletico Madrid remaining 9 points left from Barcelona and small chance for winning La Liga trophy in this season, but have 9 matches left depend with Barcelona and Real Madrid matches result keep consistent secure three points or not. Considering 9 matches left in La Liga, Atletico Madrid not face any top standings team except Real Betis at last games week if can secure all three points matches left actually still have chance if Barcelona and Madrid losses points.
I doubt if Atletico Madrid will top Real Madrid in the second position of LaLiga table, no matter how best they play. What they will achieve in this season is to qualify for the Champions League match next season. Any other thing apart from that, I don't see them achieving that by beating Real Madrid and Barcelona in the pursuit of lifting the LaLiga trophy. The LaLiga trophy this season is between Real Madrid and Barcelona, the lucky team wins it with little points gap against the other.
With the condition of Atletico's performance now that makes their mentality disturbed, of course, even though when from a positive point of view we can see that the opportunity is still there because there are still a lot of remaining matches but in the end doubts are very pronounced for now so it is quite natural that there will be a lot of people who do not even consider Atletico as one of the clubs that can compete to the end for Barcelona and Madrid.
Their situation continues to deteriorate over time which makes this one of the problems that seems difficult for Simeone to stop because he himself is confused about what to fix which is precisely the scheme he does in the end back to the first suit where Simeone always displays a parkie bus in a match.