Trailing 1-0 in the 54th minute on the Santiago Bernabéu pitch, Real Madrid, the reigning Spanish champion, finally overturned promoted Espanyol Barcelona (4-1) on Saturday during the sixth day of La Liga, where Kylian Mbappé was once again decisive.
Mbappé passer then scorer
The Madrid club (2nd, 14 points) is thus putting pressure on its big rival FC Barcelona (1st, 15 points), undefeated leader, before its trip to Villarreal on Sunday (6:30 p.m.).
Largely dominant and more convincing than in their last outings, Real woke up in the second half under the impetus of the Englishman Jude Bellingham and the Brazilian Vinicius Junior, after the Catalans opened the scoring against the run of play on an own goal by the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (54th, 1-0).
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It was first the tireless Dani Carvajal who equalized in a similar situation on the other side of the field (58th, 1-1), before Vinicius offered the ball for 2-1 to his partner Rodrygo with a sublime outside-of-the-foot shot (75th, 2-1).
Served in the area by Kylian Mbappé, “Vini” widened the gap a few moments later (78th, 3-1), then left the French striker the luxury of converting the penalty obtained by Endrick (90th, 4-1) and scoring a fourth goal in six league games.
