Mallorca 2 - Atlético Madrid 2

Mallorca: Prats; Campano (Potenza 55'), Iuliano, Fernando Navarro, Maciel (Choutos 79'); Pereyra, Farinos (Yordi 64'); Jonas Gutiérrez, Arango, Tuni; Víctor. 4-2-3-1.
Atlético: Falcón; Velasco, Perea, Pablo, Antonio López; Zahinos, Colsa; Maxi, Ibagaza (Valera 79'), Petrov (Leo Franco 74'); Fernando Torres. 4-2-3-1.

Team changes: Mallorca: No change / Atlético: Velasco, Zahinos, Colsa, Petrov for Valera, Gabi, Luccin, Kezman.

Goals:
0-1. 01. Maxi. Shot across keeper on far post after Petrov crossed from left.
0-2. 12. Colsa. Steered header wide of keeper from Fernando Torres cross.
1-2. 19. Iuliano. Header on far post after Pereyra headed on corner.
2-2. 83. Iuliano. Latched on to loose ball and curled shot in off crossbar.

Mallorca came back from two goals down to save a draw against Atlético Madrid, although Héctor Cúper's side ended the weekend just two points away from the drop zone. Maxi put the visitors in front in the first minute of the game, getting on the end of a long cross from Petrov to beat Prats on the far post. And Colsa (starting for the first time this season due to an injury to Luccin and a one match ban for Colsa) guided a header wide of the keeper from a Fernando Torres centre to make it two with only twelve minutes gone.

The locals got back in the game soon afterwards when Iuliano bravely dived under the feet of several defenders to head the ball in following a corner, the Italian defender knocking himself out and missing the next few minutes of the match. Nothing particularly exciting happened though until after the break, when Petrov and Torres both failed to beat Prats in one frenetic attack.

With a quarter of an hour to go though, the visitors were left with ten men when young keeper Falcón brought down an attacker outside of his area, and Leo Franco was forced to come on even though he was not fully fit. And a few minutes later Iuliano levelled the scores with his second of the night after Velasco failed to clear a corner.

Numbers were evened up before the end when Fernando Navarro was also sent off (as was the Mallorca delegate for protesting), but it was too late for Atlético to do anything. Once again Bianchi's side had dropped points at the end of the match and, as one commentator said, if games only lasted 80 minutes they would be in the Champions League spots by now. They don't though, and they ended the weekend a disappointing tenth.