The main game of the 32nd round of the Spanish league was held tonight (Sunday) when the leader Real Madrid hosted Sevilla, with the aim of approaching the 35th championship in its history.
A few days after qualifying for the Champions League semi-finals after a huge duel against Chelsea, the Blancos knew that a victory would give them a 15-point advantage over the Andalusians in the table and take the final rival out of the race.
Unfortunately, Julen Luftaghi's gang has always been considered a tough hurdle in Ramon Sanchez Pijuan and so it was today.
In the 21st minute, Sevilla went up to 0: 1.
Ivan Rakitić spun a great free-kick into the corner of Thibaut Korotea, who could not react.
Four minutes later in the 25th minute came the second of the Andalusians when Jose Corona brought down Eric Lamela, who kicked his strong left foot and celebrated with the friends the 0: 2.
Rakitić celebrates the first goal of the game, Photo: IPI
Real, which proved this year how much character it has, did not give up this time either and in the 50th minute managed to shrink to 2: 1.
Vinicius Jr. brought down Danny Carvajal, who passed from the right to Rodrigo and the Brazilian continued to touch the net.
In the 83rd minute, the equalizer came.
Seven minutes after the referee controversially disqualified Vinicius' goal claim on a touchdown, Real managed to get back to 2-2 after Carvajal cooked again, this time for Nacho who came in as a substitute just one minute earlier.
2: 2.
When it looked like we were on our way to a points split, he came again, who if not - Karim Benzema who took advantage of a mix-up in Sevilla's pitch and pushed close to set up a huge turnaround and a 2-3 draw at the end.
Real is approaching the title.
Vinicius among Sevilla players, tonight at Ramon Sanchez Pijuan, Photo: Reuters
Nacho celebrates equality, tonight in Sevilla, Photo: EP
Even today:
After the dramatic relegation from the Champions League, Atletico Madrid returned to the league and against Espanyol achieved a dramatic victory.
Diego Simeone's side took the lead from Yannick Crasco's goal, but were left with 10 players following Condogbia's dismissal and suffered a draw from Raul de Thomas as a result of a serious foul by Jan Obelek.
Despite this, in the catch of time Crasco scored from the penalty spot and arranged an important 1: 2 victory in the battle for a place in the first four.
Crasco in Madness, Photo: EPI
In other games:
Grande - Levante 4: 1, Athletic Bilbao - Salta Vigo 2: 0.
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