Deportivo Alaves 0-0 Atletico Madrid: Simeone´s fading title hopes stunted again

Atletico Madrid’s fading hopes of winning the LaLiga rubric suffered different stroke aft being held to a goalless gully distant to relegation-threatened Deportivo Alaves.

A drab show leaves Atletico 9 points down leaders Barcelona, who could widen that vantage erstwhile they question to Real Valladolid aboriginal connected Saturday.

Julian Alvarez was dismissed for planting a precocious footwear connected Facundo Garces, though the reddish paper was overturned aft the referee consulted the pitchside show pursuing a VAR reappraisal successful an uneventful archetypal half.

Diego Simeone made 5 changes successful the 2nd fractional successful a bid to shingle up the game, but Atletico were incapable to find a decisive goal.

Kike Garcia astir grabbed a precocious victor for the hosts but saw his debased effort palmed distant by Jan Oblak arsenic Alaves moved up to 16th and 3 points wide of the relegation places.

Draw successful Vitoria. pic.twitter.com/DQqKqiE5xe

— Atlético de Madrid (@atletienglish) May 3, 2025

Data Debrief: Atletico’s Alaves struggles continue

Atletico person lone won 2 of their past 8 LaLiga distant games (D3 L3) aft this drab gully astatine Alaves.

Simeone’s broadside person besides scored successful conscionable 5 of their 14 LaLiga visits to Alaves, with their 36% percent their lowest connected the roadworthy against an hostile successful their full past successful the contention that they person played 5 times oregon more.

This was acold from a classical connected Saturday, with Atletico lone accumulating 0.54 expected goals to Alaves’ 0.61 arsenic some sides amassed conscionable 2 shots connected people each successful a hard-fought clash.

There are not galore positives for Simeone to instrumentality from this, though Atletico person present kept a cleanable expanse successful 15 of their 34 games, much than immoderate different broadside successful LaLiga this season.