Atletico Madrid managed to edge out Rayo Vallecano 3-2 in the La Liga encounter between the sides on Wednesday at the Metropolitano as Julian Alvarez starred for the Capital City side with a hat-trick.

Alvarez opened the scoring in the 15th minute before strikes from Pep Chavarria and Alvaro Garcia Rivera helped Rayo move in front. But, Alvarez struck in the 80th and 88th minutes to help his side to all points on offer.

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“We needed to get three points to get confidence from winning, we’ve been playing well but because of small details we weren’t getting good results," Alvarez said following the thrilling win.

“We have to keep working and improve some things to get on a winning run," the

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