Real Madrid suffered more than the bill and was one step away from the title

07/13/2020 - 19:37

• Clarín.com
• sports

"Thus, thus, thus also Madrid wins," thousands of Madrid and Spaniards can respond. Without the help of the VAR, with two goals and suffering until the last minute. After the ninth consecutive win, Real need one more victory to stay with LaLiga and the first chance will be next Thursday 16 when they receive Villarreal. 15 minutes were enough to handle the game with some tranquility against Granada, at least in the first half. The discount of the Venezuelan Darwin Machis excited everyone, especially the Catalans. The local was encouraged to look for the feat of the tie, tried, was close, but failed.

With the 2-1 victory, Real Madrid reached 83 points, four more than Barcelona, ​​with only six points in dispute . So with another win, Thursday will be champion. If you resign points and the Messi team wins, the definition will be for the last date. It seems difficult to escape the championship. Then it will be time to think about the Champions League.

The paths to the goal were simple. After 15 minutes, Zidane's team was already winning 2-0. After 9 minutes, the Frenchman Ferland Mendy, more and more starter in the alternation with Marcelo, leaked at full power in the area, took a powerful left-footed shot and the ball got into the only possible gap between the goalkeeper's hand and the stick. Great goal.

File this one under #PACE lol he took a 15yd set touch there. #Mendy #Realmadrid pic.twitter.com/EPeJ1UK5bV

After 15 minutes, Madrid's own lunge came after recovering a ball. Modric played for Isco, who with a heel between three markers broke the entire defensive scheme of Granada. Modric, free in the middle, lengthened for Benzema, the Frenchman got into the area, hooked against Víctor Díaz and defined with a crossed right hand.

Benzema ⚽✅pic.twitter.com / wp6gce2dRg

Everything seemed too easy for the Meringues . Granada did not score well, fell back worse and did not reach the Courtois goal. However, after 30 minutes he bet on the centers to the area and found the defensive strength of the LaLiga leader: he took Ramos first, Courtois responded well and Mendy closed better. Even with these approaches to the premises, zero was safe. Real Madrid attacked less but handled the ball. There was nothing to predict that he would end up asking for the time.

In the final part Granada modified the tactical scheme , went to a 4-4-2 to better defend themselves. And right away he got the discount. Casemiro lost the ball at the start, Yandel Herrera put a millimeter pass behind Varane and Machís left Courtois unbeaten, who had been without goals for 506 minutes, the best LaLiga brand of the season. History, yes, Venezuelans did against Madrid. Machís had already marked him in the first leg, and now there was an assist and a goal.

⚽ GOAL OF GRANADA! Venezuelan connection! Yangel Herrera gave a phenomenal assist to Machis, who defined powerful at the near post: 1-2 vs Real Madrid.

He broke Courtois's streak: 506 without receiving goals in LaLiga! ... From @DIRECTVSports pic.twitter.com/CrdSDftIhq

Madrid was beaten and Granada was encouraged to seek a draw. He was very close in the last ten minutes. Ramos saved first, when not, on the line. Later Diaz missed it head and later in a riot in the area the referee charged infraction against the goalkeeper. The forcefulness of the first fifteen minutes allowed the leader to sustain a victory that was in danger until the last minute.

For the first time in his coaching career, Zidane won nine consecutive games . And now he is going for his second League -the previous one was in 2016/17- and the eleventh title with Real Madrid. His team sometimes does not shine, but he is effective and the players always respond to him. A leader from the bench that allowed him in this final from head to head to get that minimal difference to Barcelona, ​​necessary to prepare an Olympic lap.