The French connection strikes again: with two goals from Ferland Mendy and Karim Benzema, Real Madrid beat Granada 2-1 on Monday for the 36th day of Liga, and is now only one match away from a 34th coronation national. Real crowned Thursday? After this brilliant success in Granada on Monday thanks to a powerful strike from the left foot from the side Ferland Mendy and a right goal from the center forward Karim Benzema, despite the reduction of the score of Darwin Machis (50th), Real Madrid could be crowned champion of Spain from Thursday against Villarreal (19h).
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Real Madrid is just 2 points away from the title!
A 2-1 victory against Grenada thanks to the French!
A golazo by Ferland Mendy
And a magical sequence by Karim Benzema! Https: //t.co/RtdjMB0VAf
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“To win in this Liga, you also have to know how to suffer, and we suffered. We managed to hold on, as a team. You have to be proud of that. That makes 9 victories in 9 matches ... What more could you ask for? Now two games are missing. We haven't won anything yet. We'll see what happens on Thursday, "summed up coach Zinedine Zidane at the post-match press conference on Monday evening. The Real Blues at the top: with a Benzema that marks the history of the club and a sparkling Mendy, slowly dislodging Brazilian Marcelo (currently injured with adductors) from the left corridor, Real Madrid signed a high performance stolen Monday evening in Granada. Thanks to this blue festival a few hours from the French national holiday, the team of Zinédine Zidane is only one match away from ending the national hegemony of Barça.
Mendy, first goal, and what a goal
The two former Lyonnais scored at entry, which allowed Real to play its game, before a drop in speed at the end of the game. Mendy (25), a tireless locomotive who had already distinguished himself by causing the victory penalty on Saturday night against Alavés, scored his first goal on Monday in the jersey of the "White House", which he joined in the summer last for six years and 48 M EUR.
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“We start from our goalkeeper, and in very few passes, we are on the opposing side. Ferland does an individual feat, his acceleration is extraordinary, and especially his ball. He is not used to being in such situations, but he put us on the right track, ”said Zidane on Monday evening. For Benzema, this is his 19th La Liga goal this season (with 8 assists): the center forward is the 5th best scorer in the history of the galactic club (behind legends like Raul, Cristiano Ronaldo and Alfredo Di Stéfano) and is the only one to challenge the authority of superstar Lionel Messi (22 goals, 21 assists) in the ranking of the best in the Spanish championship this season. Only N.9 available at Real - Mariano Diaz is injured and Luka Jovic still has to wait after his second negative test for the new coronavirus -, Karim Benzema has still taken his responsibilities to lead Real to the title, after what will remain as his best season in Madrid since joining the club in 2009.
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⚽ Sergio Ramos "We haven't won anything yet" pic.twitter.com/cuFmNMhOKK
In an innovative device, where Zidane surrounded his favorite center-forward and the only striker lined up straight away Monday evening Karim Benzema from four midfielders - Valverde, Modric, Kroos Isco), Real signed a high-class match, reassuring less than a month from his 8th final Champions League return against Manchester City, 2-1 defeat in the first leg).
End of invincibility
In this symphony, only one downside: the merengue curtain, the best defense of the five major European championships (22 goals conceded this season in La Liga only), was torn for the first time in six games (2-1 at San Sebastian on June 21), on a goal from the left of the Venezuelan Darwin Machis (50th). And this, despite the return of suspension of executives Dani Carvajal and Sergio Ramos in the white curtain. It is therefore an end of invincibility for Thibaut Courtois: the Belgian international doorman spent 506 minutes without conceding a single goal in La Liga, but remains far from the record of Santiago Canizares (709 minutes without conceding in La Liga). But the former Atlético and Chelsea doorman already has 18 “clean sheets” this season in the league, which puts him in the lead for the Zamora trophy for the best Liga goalkeeper, far ahead of Jan Oblak (Atlético), Unai Simon (Athletic Bilbao) and Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona). With this victory, Real now has its destiny in its hands. If successful Thursday against the European candidate Villarreal (5th), defeated this Monday at home by Real Sociedad (2-1), the men of Zinédine Zidane will be able to leave their small stadium behind closed doors of Alfredo Di Stéfano with the crown of champion of Spain on the head.
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