Benzema hits hard

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Two terminal pecks from Benzema sealed the victory for Madrid, who for the third consecutive game scored three points away from the Bernabéu, to which they will return next Saturday against Betis.

The champion sweated like a shower against an Espanyol team that got hooked on the game with very little and had Real by the chest until Benzema's talent prevailed in a game with many curves.

ESPSpanish

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Lecomte, Brian, Óscar Gil, Cabrera, Calero, Javi Puado (Melamed, min. 77), Edu Expósito (Dani Gómez, min. 88), Rubén Sánchez, Vinicius (Keidi, min. 67), Darder and Joselu

RMA Real Madrid

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Courtois, Eder Militao, Alaba, Rüdiger, Lucas Vázquez (Dani Carvajal, min. 84), Aurelien Tchouameni, Modric (Camavinga, min. 57), Kroos (Dani Ceballos, min. 79), Federico Valverde (Rodrygo, min. 57 ), Benzema and Vinicius Junior

Goals

0-1 min.

11: Vinicius Jr.

1-1 min.

42: Joselu.

1-2 minutes

87: Benzema.

1-3 min.

99: Benzema.

Referee

Mario Melero Lopez

Red cards Lecomte (min. 96)

The break came when in Cornellà there was only one game: the one that Madrid wanted.

Until Joselu's unexpected goal a blink from the break, Espanyol was nothing darker.

The match was overwhelmingly away.

An appointment directed by Modric and Kroos, with Tchouameni as the superior brigade.

And, above all, Vinicius, out of the scanner of any parakeet.

A manifest superiority of Real, assault by assault.

Including the victorious match for Alaba, examined as a left-back by Carlo Ancelotti, who, intramural, also trusts the sentinel Rüdiger.

There are variants in this Real Madrid de Vinicius, who has been combining a footballer as unbalanced as he is concrete for months.

Before, the Brazilian went and went to who knows where.

Today, Vinicius saves towards the goal.

And the goal, his cadet curse, is now his blessing.

A victorious flirtation of the white end, capable of sweeping the entire attack front.

The Madrid of Alaba, Kroos, Modric and Tchouameni flowed and flowed.

All rulers.

The duel at the feet of Real when Tchouameni, Casemiro's sequel, played Kroos or Modric and leaked a clinical pass for Vinicius, who cut Espanyol's defense through the center.

Uncheck, dribble and the casserole.

Vinicius being worth three.

Tchouameni, on the rise.

Life was still the same in the Madrid that Casemiro left.

Many rowing.

Like Alaba, folksy midfield support over and over again.

Even Vinicius and Benzema had defensive remangue in more than one play.

Nothing foreshadowed any note of Diego Martínez's painting, still under construction, with the commotion of Raúl de Tomás and some expectation in the market.

There is a cut in Cornellà.

The parakeet box was going down when in an unforeseen snap Joselu tied.

For once it was Real who could not explain the future of the match, in which the spirited Espanyol of youth squad Rubén was already competing.

The parakeet club never lacked a fishing ground, which navigates as best it can among the elite.

The tie shook the champion.

Less control of Ancelotti's group, suddenly vulnerable, spoiled for a back-and-forth encounter.

It won't be the first challenge so accept Real, this Madrid of Tchouameni and Camavinga, young people with legs and a lot of ease.

A threat to Espanyol, but one that rhymed better with the clash when the opponent left room for him to come and go.

Such was the new game, that on the hour Joselu almost beat Courtois, another key day at the office, and Benzema almost struck down his compatriot Lecomte, the local goalkeeper.

A fringe certified the Madrid captain out of place.

From a challenge handled at will by Madrid to an ordeal accepted by Espanyol after his vitamin goal.

Ancelotti looked so low that Real's run from Casemiro-Modric-Kroos finished off Tchouameni, Camavinga and Ceballos.

The launched Madrid of the first half hour ended hook by hook in a game in which Espanyol pulled the float and came up.

Diego Martínez's commendable group.

Until Benzema sang two bingos.

The Frenchman responded to a cross from Rodrygo with a pure battering ram maneuver.

Later, a snag by Lamert on Ceballos led to the goalkeeper's expulsion and a direct foul for Benzema against a player-goalkeeper (Cabrera).

Resources are not lacking for Real.

The opposite of the willful Espanyol.

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