Real Madrid vs Valencia: Real Madrid Secure Victory With Ten Men Against Valencia
Real Madrid vs Valencia: After a shaky start, then lacking success, Real Madrid turned it around to win 2-1 and take the lead in La Liga.
Real Madrid vs Valencia: Real Madrid come away with the victory and take the lead!
Valencia played their part with quick attacks in the first half, and were content to defend in the second. Real woke up late, abandoned by Vinicius (79th), helped by Modric (85th). Bellingham missed a penalty (55th) before hoisting his team into the lead in La Liga.
Before kick-off, Valencia had thanked Real Madrid for their help after the natural disaster that struck the region, and while the gesture had obviously pleased the Merengues, they had a much wider smile at the very end of the match. On the pitch of the penultimate team in the Championship, Carlo Ancelotti’s team nevertheless came close to being slapped in their quest for the title before winning everything at the end of the match (2-1).
After a pre-match marked by incidents between supporters and the police , the Valencians entered this match full of energy, for the first time on their bench of Carlos Cordeban. Of course, Dimitrievski was called into action (5th, 43rd), but Mestalla pushed his protégés hard, threatening by Duro (7th), Almeida (8th) and Foulquier (28th). And it was after an overflow from the Frenchman that Guerra saw his shot deflected by Courtois, which benefited Duro, alone in front of the empty goal (27th).
Goal disallowed for Mbappé
The second half turned into a nightmare for Real for a long time, despite a good Kylian Mbappé. The striker was awarded a penalty missed by Bellingham (55th), was denied a superb equaliser for offside (60th), before Vinicius was sent off for stupidly responding to a provocation from Dimitrievski (79th). The Brazilian later apologised on his social networks: “Sorry and thank you to the team”
But Real still has this incredible resilience, symbolized by the stainless Modric. Author of an equalizer all by touch for his first goal with Real in almost a year (1-1, 85th), five minutes after coming on, the Croatian allowed his team to believe.
And on the penultimate action, jude bellingham goal exploited a huge defensive error to offer an unexpected victory to Real (90th + 6) and a margin of two lengths on its runner-up in the standings, Atlético de Madrid. A victory as unexpected as it was lucky since, on the very last action, Rioja found the square with a capital strike (90th + 10).
