Atletico Madrid didn’t win a fifth successive match as they have been overwhelmed 1-0 away to Mallorca in LaLiga on Wednesday.
Diego Simeone’s facet – who had misplaced two of their earlier three video games throughout all competitions – have been unable to cease the rot as they supplied little risk in what was their closing league recreation earlier than the World Cup break.
Mallorca talisman Vedat Muriqi was unsurprisingly the one to edge Mallorca in entrance early on, and that in the end proved decisive.
An Alvaro Morata strike was dominated out shortly after, however it was under no circumstances a prelude to authorized Atletico objectives as Los Colchoneros didn’t take advantage of their dominance of the ball.
5 – Vedat Muriqi has scored in every of his final 5 video games in @LaLigaEN, the perfect lively scoring streak within the High 5 European leagues.
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Mallorca have been good worth for his or her Sixteenth-minute opener, nonetheless scrappy it was.
After Jan Oblak spilled Antonio Sanchez’s long-range effort, Antonio Raillo’s follow-up was blocked into Jaume Costa’s path and his scuffed low cross luckily left Muriqi with a simple end.
Atletico thought they’d a swift response as Morata lifted a stunning end over Predrag Rajkovic following Rodrigo de Paul’s glorious throughball, just for the purpose to be disallowed for offside.
The guests confirmed extra attacking function firstly of the second half, however Axel Witsel utterly missed the ball when teed up contained in the field within the forty eighth minute.
It was not till the 82nd minute that Atletico threatened once more, with Morata failing to bundle over the road from shut vary, and some moments later he noticed a volley brilliantly saved by Rajkovic.
