La Liga: Atleti Moves Joint-Top with Barca

Atletico Madrid surged to the top of La Liga on Sunday with a 2-1 win against Athletic Bilbao, which moved Diego Simeone’s men to level on points with Barcelona, which could onlymanage a 2-2 draw with Deportivo La Coruna.  “We’ll continue in this vein,” Simeone said. “We’ll always work to our best, but our objective is to improve ourselvesin every game. We don’t understand any other way than investing all our effort.”