If anything, we proved to be a better team than Atletico. Not a great consolidation for the embarrassing result but it gives a little bit of hope that it could eventually prevail.
There is not much question around our complete domination in direct encounters against other teams involved in the title race.
Along with that, there is no doubt that Atletico, as well as Leganes, was already a much better game than those in the early days of terrible form; Sociedad, Celta, Las Palmas... It shows sign of improvement.
There is now a long time for them to recover both physically and mentally from all this mess. A solid run of 5-6 wins, which is realistically possible, could give us the leader position again.
After this break, our next 5 league games are: Getafe, Valencia, Alaves, Sevilla and Rayo. That's a relatively easy schedule. Relatively, as consdering we already lost to likes of Leganes and Las Palmas so can't rely on such assumptions. However, if we are back to our best or at least a part of it we should be having no problems in those games.
Real and Atletico schedules are a little more complex, but they probably won't have problems either. They will meet on Feb 9 on Bernabeu so a draw there would do good for us.