Atletico drops points in an important clash against Sevilla

Atletico Madrid stumbled again in LaLiga on Sunday as they were beaten 1-0 by Sevilla, giving Barcelona the chance to move to within a point of the top of the table on Monday.

Marcos Acuna headed in the winner for Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, with Atletico’s grip on first place loosening even further and their in-form rivals primed to take advantage.

Real Madrid is only three points behind after they beat Eibar on Sunday and Barcelona will reduce their deficit from four points to one if they can win on Monday at home to Real Valladolid.

It means Spain’s title race suddenly appears wide open, two months after Atletico sat 10 points clear of both Barca and Madrid, with a game in hand.

Atletico captain Koke criticized the referee for not reviewing Acuna’s goal. “It was a clear handball for the goal and there was another handball (by Diego Carlos) which should have been a second yellow card,” he said.

“We have VAR which has to be there to help out. Today wasn’t our day. On other days it has favored us, today it didn’t go our way.”