The Atlético Madrid Chronicle
Match14 Dec 2026
Atlético Madrid refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 31 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Atlético Madrid
Alexander Sørloth and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Pablo Barrios falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Gael Camarena arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Gael Camarena has, at Atlético Madrid, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Julián Álvarez is carrying Atlético Madrid
12 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match12 Dec 2026
Julián Álvarez the difference as Atlético Madrid beat Elche
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Julián Álvarez. 2‑1 against Elche, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Daniel Vidal joins the Atlético Madrid first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Vidal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Kang-In Lee
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Julián Álvarez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Álex Baena
- The dugout Koke gets it from the manager
- The dugout Jan Oblak gets picked when it counts