Atletico trio amongst Europe's best

Diego Simeone's current side has order, personality and speed - and in Yannick Carrasco, Antoine Griezmann and Kevin Gameiro, Atletico Madridalso has three players who have scored the bulk of the teams goals this season.

Carrasco's goal against Malaga (1-0)Twenty five have already been scored in LaLiga by the Rojiblancos and only the 26 in 1997/98 and 2013/14 have bettered that mark in the last 59 years.

You have to go all the way back to the 1957/58 campaign to find Atleti's best-ever start in goalscoring terms; 34 goals in the opening 10 games.

Carrasco, Griezmann and Gameiro have accumulated 64% of the goals scored, or in simple terms, 16 of the 25 that have hit the back of the net.

Angel Correa has three, Fernando Torres and Nico Gaitan a pair each, and Tiago and Koke with one complete the list.

If we add in Champions League goals too, then "GGC" have scored 18 of the 28 total goals - Carrasco scoring against Bayern Munich and Rostov, Saul against PSV Eindhoven.

The figures of the Atletico trident draw attention not only to compare them with the rest of their peers, but also because it places them with the other great front threes in Liga.

Gameiro's second aganst Malaga (3-1)Barcelona's MSN lead the way; Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi have seven each and Neymar has four in the domestic tournament.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid's BBC still has some way to go to compare with Simeone's strike force.

Cristiano Ronaldo has five, Karim Benzema has scored four and Gareth Bale has three which is four less than Carrasco, Griezmann and Gameiro.

Worryingly for the rest of the Spanish top flight is that the Atleti trio don't think they're playing at their optimum level at this point.

"You haven't yet seen the Gameiro from Sevilla, I'm not 100%," said the Frenchman after the win against Malaga.

"I am now in a very good moment and the second seasons are always better," Carrasco noted.

Against Rostov on Tuesday, the trio have the chance again to dramatically increase their numbers, something that should have the whole of Europe sitting up and taking notice.