The French national team captain continued his remarkable brilliance recently and scored his sixth goal in the last four league matches, specifically since his return from injury against Seville at the end of last year, raising his scoring tally in La Liga to 15 goals in 19 matches, one goal behind Barcelona’s Polish international striker Robert Lewandowski. Top scorers.
The Spanish capital team did not find it difficult to win the three points despite the suspension of its Brazilian star, Vinicius Junior, raising its score to 49 points in first place, four points behind its neighbor Atletico Madrid, who was struggling against its guest, Villarreal (1-1), and temporarily 10 points ahead of third-placed Barcelona. Which hosts Valencia on Sunday, while Valladolid’s balance froze at 15 points in last place.
The hosts tried to snatch an early goal to confuse Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti’s team, but defender David Torres’ header from a corner kick was brilliantly blocked by Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois before German defender Antonio Rudiger blocked it (2).
The Belgian continued his saves by saving a powerful ground shot from the outskirts of the penalty area, signed by Senegalese Mamadou Sylla (24).
The Spanish and European champions then absorbed the host team’s outburst and took control of the course of events in the first half. He initially attempted a powerful ground shot from the outskirts of Rüdiger’s penalty area, but Valladolid goalkeeper Karl Hein was converted into a corner by Estonian Karl Hein (25).
Real Madrid launched a coordinated attack, and Uruguayan Federico Valverde, Englishman Jude Bellingham and Mbappe exchanged a ball at the outskirts of the area before the second to last prepared it inside the area and shot it powerfully from close range to the left of Hayne, opening the scoring (30).
Mbappe settled matters just 12 minutes after the start of the second half by adding the second goal in almost the same way, after he shot from close range to the left of Hayne, benefiting from a decisive pass by the Brazilian Rodrigo after a quick attacking shift.
Ancelotti gave a rest to a number of his main players after taking the lead with a double, so he brought in Croatian Luka Modric, Austrian David Alaba and Turkish Arda Guler instead of Dani Ceballos, Raul Asensio and Rodigo Tualya, in preparation for facing French Brest in the final round of the unified group of the Champions League next Wednesday.
Modric alone almost scored the third goal with a perfect pass from Guler, but his ball passed the left post (85).
After returning to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), the referee sent off Real Valladolid midfielder Mario Martin for challenging Bellingham inside the area and awarded a penalty kick, which Mbappe successfully converted (90+1).
– Continuous points bleeding for Atletico –
Atletico Madrid continued to lose points, falling into the trap of a 1-1 draw against its guest, Villarreal.
The team of Argentine coach Diego Simeone continued the series of wasting points as part of its struggle to win the league title for the 12th time in its history and the first since 2020-2021, wasting two valuable points after losing to Leganes 0-1 in the last stage.
Argentine coach Diego Simeone’s men settled for one point, raising their score to 45 points, four points behind Real Madrid.
-The homeowners found themselves trailing to a goal scored by Gerard Moreno from a penalty kick (29), before they regained the lead through Brazilian substitute Samuel Leno (58).
In the following minutes, the players of the capital team tried to achieve their fourteenth victory in the league on more than one occasion through the Argentine substitute Rodrigo De Paul (72), the youngster Pablo Barrios (84), and the other French substitute, Antoine Griezmann (86), to no avail.
Coach Marcelino’s team raised its score to 34 points in fifth place, maintaining its hopes of occupying a qualifying position for a European competition next season.
Real Betis regained its balance with a first victory in its last four matches when it defeated host Real Mallorca 1-0, scored by Congolese Democrat Cédric Bakambu in the sixth minute of stoppage time.
Real Mallorca played with ten players since the 73rd minute, after their Equatorial Guinean defender, Omar Mascarell, was sent off.
Real Betis rose to ninth place temporarily with 28 points, two points behind Real Mallorca, sixth.
Sevilla tied with its guest Espanyol, 1-1.
Albanian Marash Kumbula opened the scoring for the guests (15), and the hosts responded with a goal from Frenchman Loic Badé (61).
The Andalusian team raised its score to 27 points in eleventh place, compared to 20 points for the Catalan team in eighteenth place.
Edited by Le360 with AFP
On 01/26/2025 at 08:32
