Barcelona are no longer unbeaten in La Liga this season and will finish the weekend in ninth place thanks to a 2-0 loss to Atlético Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano. Barça were second-best in every department for 90 minutes, and Ronald Koeman was once again destroyed by his opposing manager as Barça’s crisis gets worse.
FIRST HALF
Barça made a solid start to the game, with a narrow 4-2-3-1 formation with five midfielders that gave them the advantage in midfield and exploited some gaps in the Atlético defense. But Diego Simeone quickly spotted the problem and made a formation change just 12 minutes in, with Thomas Lemar leaving the attack and joining the midfield.