The Vicente Calderon held a minute of silence before the Atlético-Rayo game in memory of deceased Atletico supporters from last season.

In the first home game of this league campaign, Simeone’s men gave their fans a great performance blowing Rayo aside with three goals in the first half (Raul Garcia, Diego Costa and Arda) and two in the second (Tiago and Raul Garcia).

Diego Pablo Simeone appeared at a press conference before the league game against Rayo. The coach label the game as "hard" against a team that plays good football and has a lot of quality.

The team continued to prepare Sunday's game against Rayo Vallecano in a behind closed door training session on field 4 of the sports city in a session that lasted for an hour and a half.

The striker appeared before the media before facing Rayo Vallecano, his former club, and he talked about the teams domestic competition.

The coach believes that his side dominated much of the game and the tie is wide open for the match at the Camp Nou.

David Villa debuted at the Vicente Calderon with Atletico with a goal from outside the area to open the scoring in the first game of the Super Cup. The goal machine already knows what it feels like to score in the Atletico fortress.

Champion of the UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup and Copa del Rey, Zamora of the League, Golden Boy finalist for best player under 21 years...these are just some of the accomplishments achieved by Courtois since joining Atletico Madrid in summer 2011. In the Super Cup against Barcelona he played his 100th game with Atletico.

A fine performance from Simeone's men see's them take a 1-1 draw to the Camp Nou for next week’s second leg of the Spanish Super Cup. A scorching first half volley from David Villa gave Atleti the lead before Barca struck back through Neymar on the hour mark.

The coach talked about the game this Wednesday against Barcelona in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup held at the Vicente Calderon at 23:00. He praised the Catalans, but trust his men to put in a good performance.