Atletico Madrid fell into a goalless draw with its guest Espanyol in the third round of the Spanish Football Championship.

The capital team raised its score to 5 points from 3 matches, while Espanyol won its first point this season.

Atletico's Argentine coach, Diego Simeone, decided to rest his French striker Antoine Griezmann, seat him on the reserve players' bench, and include in the attack the newly arrived duo of the Argentine team, Julián Alvarez, and Norwegian Alexander Sorloth.

Atletico players wasted several chances in the first half, and at the beginning of the second half, the hosts succeeded in scoring a goal through Rodrigo Riquelme (54), but the referee did not count it after resorting to the Assistant Referee (VAR) technique.

The beginning of the second half witnessed the participation of Griezmann instead of Alvarez, who moved in a large deal amounting to about 85 million euros from Manchester City, but the former did not succeed in finding his way to the goal.

Athletic Bilbao, fifth last season, achieved its first victory by defeating its guest Valencia 1-0.

After being satisfied with an opening draw at home against Getafe 1-1, the Basque club fell in the second stage to Barcelona 1-2 before being able on Wednesday to achieve the first victory of the new season thanks to a goal scored in the last seconds of the first half through Benyat Prados with a header. After a cross from Oscar De Marcos.

On the other hand, Valencia, ninth last season, continued its very bad start by suffering a third defeat in a row for the first time at the beginning of the season since 2016-2017, after losing before that to Barcelona 0-2 and then Celta Vigo 1-3.

Leganés returned from Valladolid Stadium with their fifth point by drawing with them without goals, placing them in fourth place temporarily.

Real Sociedad fell at home to Alaves 1-2.

Sociedad was affected by the red card of its international striker, Mikkel Oyarzabal, in the 39th minute.

While the match between Real Betis and its guest Getafe was postponed as a result of the former’s preoccupation with the second leg of the qualifying round for the group stage of the Conference League, where on Thursday it will host Ukraine’s Hernik after winning the first leg 2-0.