Atletico Madrid serve up derby lesson, Liverpool get a wake-up call and more

Another large shot play is successful the books and arsenic always, it gave america plentifulness to speech about! In Spain's immense El Derbi, it was Atletico Madrid who came retired firmly connected apical of rivals Real Madrid with a 5-2 victory. In the Premier League, it was each astir play aft the 90th minute: Arsenal enjoyed a small precocious magic to decision Newcastle astatine St. James' Park, portion Crystal Palace besides scored heavy successful second-half wounded clip to decision league-leading Liverpool and basal unsocial arsenic the lone unbeaten squad near successful England's apical division.

Elsewhere, we person talking points galore for Milan (who picked up a immense triumph implicit Napoli), Manchester United (who mislaid again), Manchester City (who thrashed Burnley acknowledgment to Jérémy Doku's electrical dribbling), Chelsea (seriously, which mentation of them is going to amusement up each week?) and much, overmuch much from astir Europe's large leagues.

It's Monday morning, truthful what amended clip for Gab Marcotti's musings? Let's get into it.

The past clip Atletico enactment 5 past Real Madrid, they had won zero European Cups

That was successful 1950. Man had not yet been to space, Alfredo Di Stefano was inactive playing shot successful South America, Elvis Presley was a inferior successful precocious schoolhouse and Donald Trump was four. That's however agelong agone it was.

So yeah, it's logical to expect fallout connected the achromatic broadside of the capital. Manager Xabi Alonso talked astir however he's inactive gathering his team, however it was a deserved beatdown they tin would larn from, and however helium hoped to crook a antagonistic into a affirmative successful the long-term. In different words, it's precisely what you expect an intelligent manager similar him to say. The question is what helium learned from this horror.

First, you person to recognition Diego Simeone. His squad went into the play having made wholesale changes -- though, possibly tellingly, conscionable 2 newcomers started -- and winning conscionable 1 of their archetypal 5 outings successful LaLiga. There were rumblings that his prima striker, Julián Álvarez, was unhappy astatine his chop-and-change substitutions. And, conscionable arsenic you'd expect successful your 15th play successful the job, immoderate were wondering whether "El Cholo" had gone a small stale.

So overmuch for each that. They roared backmost to triumph 5-2 aft going 2-1 down successful the archetypal half. Alvarez bagged 2 goals (one a gorgeous escaped kick), served up an assistance and deed the woodwork, aft producing a hat-trick successful midweek. And watching the bundle of tense vigor and strength different known arsenic Simeone -- particularly successful opposition with the dejected Xabi Alonso -- determination was nary uncertainty there's plentifulness of combat near successful this dog.

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