It's unusual to see such a performance from Atlético, and the Vallecano area is not the kind of team that can lose by a big score. The next matches will show how good Atlético are because they have three rounds to play against difficult opponents, Sevilla, Valencia and Real Madrid. But for Atlético, such a big victory is an exception, in the first round they played 0-0 with Betis, it's just more like Atlético.
You could even say that this is the first time that Atletico Madrid have managed to beat an opponent with a large enough score and it is extraordinary that goals have been scored by six different players, only Morata has managed to score two goals. This big victory could not be separated from the impressive performance of the Atletico Madrid players who launched non-stop attacks in the early minutes of the match, making it very difficult for Rayo Vallecano's defense to keep pace with Atletico Madrid's game.
This happened unexpectedly and if you look at their performance in the first and second weeks, Atletico Madrid's performance was not as good. Vice versa if you look at Rayo Vallecano's performances in the previous two matches and they are also not a team that easily concedes with big scores like in the match, even in the previous two matches Rayo Vallecano swept away wins against Almeria and Granada.
I actually did not want to say this, because I generally do not talk trash about any goalkeeper because they do that hardest work, and playing as a goalkeeper is actually really hard compared to playing as an outfield player, because if you make a mistake, you will be remembered for it, it does not matter how many great saves you make. But the goalkeeper of Rayo was pretty horrible in this match.
Of course, the defending was also absolutely trash from them. It was just a bad overall performance. And I also definitely agree that this is a type of performance that we generally do not see from Atletico Madrid. And unlike the goalkeeper of Rayo the Atletico Madrid goalkeeper performed well. He made some reliable saves and did not even let the ball loose, he actually caught them.
