RCD Mallorca inflicted just a second away league defeat of 2022/23 on Atlético Madrid, ensuring that Diego Simeone’s troops will spend the upcoming FIFA World Cup break outside La Liga’s UEFA Champions League places.
In their final league contest before the World Cup break, Mallorca took to the field in search of another scalp after beating Villarreal last time out, and smelt blood against an Atlético side without a win in four.
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Vedat Muriqi had scored a whopping 58% of Mallorca’s league goals coming into tonight – the highest percentage of any La Liga player for one team – and he was on target again, as another wave of Pirates pressure resulted in the striker tapping into an open net after some calamitous Atlético defending.
Despite Atlético enforcing themselves on the contest after the interval, with Simeone’s words likely still ringing in their ears, Mallorca looked nothing like a side with only one victory from their previous six home games.
But as much as the visitors looked fluorescent, the Mallorca defence proved effervescent, though they still relied on a stunning Predrag Rajković save in the final minutes much to the bemusement of Morata, who must have thought he had scored.
