Madrid sticks out its chest

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The musings about the comeback they need against PSG in the Champions League did not distract Real Madrid from the course they have set directly for the League.

Sevilla's draw on Friday left them the opportunity to extend their lead at the top of the table to eight points, and, playing at the pace of the endless Luka Modric, they took advantage of it, after coming back, as they stated on Wednesday.

Also after an emotional memory prior to the invasion of Ukraine, with a banner in the stands, player shirts and a joint photo of the teams, which surrounded the Ukrainian Lunin, who was later affected on the bench.

RMAReal Madrid

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Courtois, Dani Carvajal (Lucas Vázquez, min. 83), Eder Militao, Alaba, Ferland Mendy, Modric (Dani Ceballos, min. 81), Camavinga, Casemiro, Vinicius Junior (Marcelo, min. 81), Benzema (Mariano, min. . 83) and Rodrygo (Marco Asensio, min. 76)

RSO R. Society

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Remiro, Gorosabel, Le Normand, Zubeldia, Jon Pacheco (Rafinha, min. 45), Zaldua (Elustondo, min. 63), Oyarzabal, Illarramendi (Martín Zubimendi, min. 63), Merino, David Silva (Näis Djouahra, min. 45) and Isak (Sörloth, min. 79)

Goals

0-1 min.

9: Oyarzabal.

1-1 min.

39: Camavinga.

2-1 min.

42: Modric.

3-1 min.

75: Benzema.

4-1 min.

78: Marco Asensio.

Referee

Jesus Gil Manzano

Yellow cards Zaldua (min. 57) and Merino (min. 80)

The night, which started off emotionally, ended well for Madrid, but it didn't go in a straight line.

Ancelotti had been warning for so long that they were going to abandon the delayed comfort from which they were waiting for their rivals, that Alguacil came up with a solid escape plan.

The first times that Madrid rushed forward, Real saw the space that was free behind their opponents and the ball flew there.

Isak tamed it with his head, he left it to Silva, and the threat was there, immediate.

La Real escaped without tremors and in one of those first escapes Silva stood with the ball in the area and Carvajal took it ahead.

Oyarzabal, with that two-stroke coldness of his, with the pause jump, sent the penalty to the base of Courtois's left post, which lengthened and lengthened, and was about to reach it.

But no.

The match had hardly shaken and Real was already ahead.

In addition, he lived with a certain tranquility, with the line of defenses and that of midfielders very close together, near his front.

Madrid was gradually advancing towards that double wall, rocking the game from one side to the other, but without causing pulse changes.

Only Rodrygo, starting instead of Asensio, worried Gorosabel, with his dribbling and the search for spaces.

A torment all night in that area.

Unlike what the season has marked, this time it was the right wing that charged and charged.

So much so that Modric, owner of the command of the game, definitively abandoned the left side along which he had moved for a few minutes to exploit this other more insistently.

La Real comfortably contemplated the progress of the rivals, eager to take the ball from one side to the other, but without finding the cracks.

The txuriurdin watched time pass, but in that contemplative phase they did not worry the attackers either.

Although he kept the trick of going back to look for the empty space in the back room of Madrid's high pressure.

Although after a little less than half an hour that began to fail.

Madrid managed to steal closer and closer to Remiro.

La Real no longer found the loopholes that had relieved it so much at the beginning.

Ancelotti's men pushed and pushed, especially on the right.

The match was turning towards that side, so that the threat of Rodrygo was clearing the panorama of Vinicius on the other side.

Although the definitive change of tone was caused by Camavinga, enlisted by the casualties of Kroos, injured, and Valverde, with the flu.

The Frenchman is more comfortable playing alongside Casemiro than in the Brazilian's place, which is where Ancelotti had placed him in his previous ownership, against Granada.

His self-confidence looks more with his back covered.

And he finished exploding with a dry shot from outside the area that lightly brushed Illarramendi and slipped out of Remiro's reach.

Camavinga scored the equalizer and finished shooting Madrid with a steal shortly after Real kicked off the center.

The play ended in a goal by Benzema, but the VAR revealed an offside.

I do not care.

The match had turned around completely and before the break Modric had already put his team ahead.

He had been doing it progressively throughout the game, and he too did it with a left foot from outside the box after an illusionist cut to David Silva, another magician.

The break did not cause any change in the balance of the match, despite the fact that Alguacil introduced Rafinha and Djouahra.

Madrid found more and more weak points, with Vinicius less guarded and shaking rivals as before.

With Rodrygo and Benzema he built another goal that erased the VAR and a little later caused a penalty from Elustondo, which brought him down on the side line of the area.

Benzema scored it and then Asensio, fresh off the bench, put the tie to the win with which they will wait for PSG on Wednesday.

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