The champion suffered a third home loss with 2: 1 against the Black Sheep from Valencia • Milito was sent off in the opening, but Asensio (13) actually arranged an advantage • Jose Morales (32) and Roger Marty (78) set up an impressive turnaround in Madrid • Sevilla won 0: 2 The Eber
Thibaut Corotea leads Real Madrid's repressed bunch
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Levante continued to be the black sheep of Real Madrid, who also failed tonight (Saturday) to close the big gap from Atletico Madrid. Zinedine Zidane's side suffered a third loss at home and stayed 7 points away from that summit even though it seemed to recover after the 1: 1 victory. 4 out on Alabs in the previous round.
Already after 8 minutes, Real Madrid's troubles started with Edom, who was pulled towards Adar Militau, who tripped Sergio Leon from behind on the verge of an extension.
At first the referee only pulled out a yellow card, but with the help of the VAR it was decided to aggravate the ruling to the detriment of the Brazilian.
But despite the numerical disadvantage, the Blancos managed to get on the board first and it happened at the end of a great outburst, which included a Tony Cross cooking for Marco Asensio, who made it 0-1 in the 13th minute.
19 minutes later, Levante equalized for 1-1 with a great volley from Jose Luis Morales, who subdued Courtois.
As early as the 63rd minute, the visitors could have completed the turnaround after receiving a penalty but Thibaut Courtois stopped Roger Marty from the penalty spot.
Big luck to the champion thanks to the Belgian goalkeeper.
In the 78th minute, Marty made up for the miss from the penalty spot with his own Walla who was stopped just by Courtois' net on the way to a surprise victory in Madrid.
In the early game of the evening, Sevilla beat Eibar 0: 2.
The Andalusians recorded a third consecutive league victory thanks to goals from Lucas Ocampus and Joan Jordan.