Atlético Madrid is in a deep crisis. After the defeat at the weekend away to Eibar, Diego Simeone's team received a new big slap from the third division. In the match of the 1/16 finals of the King's Cup, Cultural Leonesa won against the favored team from Madrid after extra time.
Atletico did field a combined team against Leones, but this defeat must have hurt Simeone, who had high ambitions in this competition.
It is interesting that he sat on the bench of the team from Madrid after Gregorio Mancano was fired in 2011 due to the defeat against Albacete, then the third league team, which was also the last defeat against a lower league team.
In the Spanish La Liga, Madrid share the third position with Sevilla and are eight points behind the leader Barcelona, which has the same number of points as Real Madrid, and which they visit on February 1.
The "Colćoneros" season will, as things stand now, end in the round of XNUMX match of the Champions League, in which they will have a very difficult task, to knock out Liverpool, the current champion and a team that has not known a defeat this season.
This season, Madrid barely score a goal per match, and the situation may improve when Diego Costa returns to the field, according to estimates in three to four weeks, and there are increasing speculations that Edison Cavani will strengthen the attack.
Diego Simeone is going through probably the most difficult moments in his term on the Madrid bench. The next match Atletico Madrid will play at the "Vanda Metropolitano" against Leganes, and a victory would bring the necessary peace before the season continues.
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