Four days before the revenge against Manchester City for the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Diego Simeone’s Atlético de Madrid lost 1-0 as a guest against Mallorca in a match that matches the 31st round of the Spanish League , who certainly said goodbye to the fight for the title and even put his qualification for the next edition of the Champions League at risk.

A penalty converted by Kosovar Vedat Muriqi 23 minutes into the second half, after breaking Mozambique Reinildo’s place with Pablo Maffeo, was enough for the Balearic Islands team to break a seven-straight losing streak. and add three points that allow you to get stuck in relegation areas.

On the other hand the mattress saw their series of seven consecutive domestic tournament wins cut short. However, the most disturbing thing for Simeone must have been his team’s sluggish performance: with most of his best people available on the pitch from the opening whistle, he was unable to find a way to overtake an opponent whose only goal was to maintain their place in the top category, but this season he won both duels for the League (he won 2-1 over Wanda Metropolitano in the first round).

At Atlético, there is no Ángel Correa (he still has to serve a suspension date) and Rodrigo De Paul is the starter, as well as Luis Suárez, who started the fight again after six games of waiting for his turn on the bench. Neither the Uruguayan nor the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann nor the Portuguese João Félix, when he entered the complement, gave no answers. At the venue, Rodrigo Battaglia jumped on the field with five minutes left.

“Now we haven’t played a good game against an opponent who closed very well in the back and that, other than one game by Llorente, has prevented us from creating clear chances. The rival brought us to the game that suits him and we couldn’t find an answer. We had a small generation of attack plays and the situations we wanted to look for didn’t come out “, Simeone commented after the fight.

With this defeat, Atlético are left with 57 points and 12 behind the Real Madrid leader, who will be at home against Getafe. So far, the rojiblanco team remains in fourth place, the last one to give classification to next season’s Champions League, but Betis, who on Saturday beat Cádiz 2-1 as a guest, reached same number of units.

After its stumble at the Estadi de Son Moix, Simeone’s cast will focus on the duel he will have to face on Wednesday at 4:00 pm at Wanda Metropolitano against Manchester City. If you want to advance to the semifinals of the Champions League, you have to overcome the absence of a goal brought in from England (they lost 1-0 on Tuesday).