Barcelona vs Real Madrid: The La Liga title race has opened up this season

#3 Atletico Madrid and Sevilla have improved and recovered from rocky starts this season:

In the midst of the Big Two, it is easy to overlook the rest of the contenders. But Diego Simeone's Atletico has been tough and consistent performers in all competitions for the past several seasons. Sevilla, while mostly consistent in the Europa League in earlier seasons have looked threatening under new coach Pablo Machin.

Both Atletico Madrid and Sevilla started their respective seasons in La Liga inconsistently. Atletico, after their big win in the Super Cup, drew with Valencia and Eibar while losing to Celta Vigo. Sevilla, this season has already lost to Betis and Getafe but recovered to defeat Standard Liege 5-1 in the Europa League, continuing their form in La Liga as well defeating Levante 6-2 and Real Madrid 3-0.

Valencia CF v Club Atletico de Madrid - La Liga

Cholo and his men have always found a way back from losses and they have done so under difficult circumstances this season already defeating Monaco away from home in the Champions League and also comprehensively winning against an in-form Getafe and Huesca.

Atletico has much to gain from Barcelona and Real Madrid's losses on Match Day 6 as they moved to 11 points, just 2 points off both of them. With a match against Real Madrid next, Griezmann and company have the perfect opportunity to upset their neighbors and move further up in the table.