Atletico had the first chance of the game through Pablo Barrios, who took a ball over the top down superbly to go through on goal, but his shot lacked conviction, and Mat Ryan managed to keep it out.
Nevertheless, they continued their run of scoring first in all of their league games this season shortly after when Barrios’ cutback was pushed by Ryan against the knee of Adrián de la Fuente, who could only divert it into his own net.
Approaching the midway point of the half, Levante equalised with their first shot of the match as Manu Sánchez was left unmarked at the back post to head home a Jon Ander Olasagasti corner.
That was the visitors’ only effort of the first half until a wayward Jeremy Toljan shot late on, by which time Ryan had been called upon to make excellent saves to thwart Giuliano Simeone's header and Alex Baena.
The break did nothing to temper the hosts’ dominance, as Baena tried his luck from range before Matteo Ruggeri planted a header straight at Ryan.
With an hour gone, Diego Simeone turned to Antoine Griezmann, and within seconds of coming on, the Frenchman was in the perfect position to meet Marcos Llorente’s low cross from the right and score with his first touch.
Having had nothing to do all half, Jan Oblak proved his class in the Atleti goal with a brilliant save to deny Goduine Koyalipou’s header with 13 minutes to go. Having survived that scare, the home side wrapped up the points three minutes later. Griezmann fed Julian Alvarez, whose effort was parried by Ryan, but the rebound fell kindly for Griezmann to prod home his second.
As full-time approached, a Carlos Alvarez strike following a free-kick squeezed through the crowd and beyond Oblak, only for the goal to be disallowed for offside.
Atleti saw out the rest of the game to make it 12 LaLiga games unbeaten since their opening day defeat, while Los Granotas have lost all six matches when conceding first this season.
Flashscore Man of the Match: Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
