The Atlético Madrid Chronicle
Match7 Nov 2026
Atlético Madrid make it 10 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Atlético Madrid have 10 straight wins of it.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Atlético Madrid
A 5‑0 win over Elche, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match7 Nov 2026
Atlético Madrid tear Oviedo apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Oviedo, and it could have been more.
Match9 Nov 2026
Atlético Madrid refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Julián Álvarez scores twice — 8.22
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Rodrigo Mendoza at 21 — 8.17
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rodrigo Mendoza did not need any: 8.17, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Atlético Madrid
Julián Álvarez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Atlético Madrid training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Llorente is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
One of their own: Giuliano Simeone
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Raúl Domínguez joins the Atlético Madrid first team
- Market Atlético Madrid promote Pol Jiménez from within
- Player ratings One of those days for Nicolás González