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Two bold teams with jets of talent left a game with a lot of hook.
A most colorful duel, with plots in the two goals, with magnificent passages.
A meeting with players from yesterday for life —Joaquín, Modric, Canales...— and soccer players with the future at their feet —Tchouameni, Borja...— A goal from Rodrygo served to finish off an expansive Betis until the end and seal the fourth victory for Madrid, which has taken off the course like a shot.
RMAReal Madrid
two
Courtois, Eder Militao, Alaba, Dani Carvajal (Rüdiger, min. 90), Ferland Mendy, Aurelien Tchouameni, Modric (Kroos, min. 79), Camavinga (Federico Valverde, min. 62), Benzema, Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo (Dani Ceballos, minute 79)
BET Betis
1
Rui Silva, Álex Moreno, Sabaly (Aitor Ruibal, min. 70), Edgar González, Luiz Felipe, Juanmi (Joaquín, min. 70), Guido Rodríguez, Canales, Fekir (Luiz Henrique, min. 10), Guardado (Willian José , minute 70) and Borja Iglesias
Goals
1-0 min.
8: Vinicius Junior.
1-1 min.
16: Channels.
2-1 min.
64: Rodrigo.
Referee
Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez
Yellow cards Edgar González (min. 24)
So intriguing, football has endless paradoxes.
Five home games and 72 shots had not been enough for Madrid to uncork Betis in their last five visits.
This time, 2,000 days later, at the first shake goal to the pot.
Vinicius played the kite and Alaba the clinical messenger.
The formidable long pass from the center-back left the Verdiblanca defense in thong.
Vinicius opened the gas down the center aisle and nailed Rui Silva with a caress to the ball that combed the Portuguese goalkeeper.
Edgar avoided being offside for a phalanx.
Pellegrini's thriving Betis is not by chance.
He is not the only one who is daring and plays gracefully.
He has the talent to compete even against the European champion.
Bare chested, with an early goal against and with Fekir, who is not exactly a leg, injured seconds later.
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Many initial setbacks for Betis.
And in Chamartín, where character is required so as not to feel like you are facing a herd of crocodiles.
But the Andalusian team was not at the Bernabéu to dabble in thought.
Canales played Canales and Fekir and in the best visiting moments of the first act he caught the tie.
A shocking goal.
Borja Iglesias, arrested by the Militão, unloaded a throw-in by Álex Moreno towards Canales.
The Cantabrian arrived thrown, but forced to finish off with the right, his most orthopedic boot.
Madrid reacted to the tie with a bugle call and had their opponent one centimeter from the canvas until the break.
The Real interpreted with the eye that characterizes him for where there were leaks in his rival.
Since Pellegrini's group advances so far along the trench,
Ancelotti's men opened one path after another with shots behind the Verdiblanco defenders.
Almost all in the direction of Vinicius, that each day is much more than the previous one.
He is no longer a soloist.
He's not just a crafty, suddenly goal-scoring winger either.
Madrid has served as a symposium for him and today he has a chair.
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Video of the goals of Real Madrid-Betis
With Vinicius with the flag the whole Real grew, with Tchouameni as an anchor —more content than in previous games—.
Not a blemish from the French midfielder, with detachment and tact.
Sober and precise.
A header from him made Rui Silva fly like a titan, author of an extraordinary save.
Rodrygo, effective replacement for Valverde, Alaba and Benzema stayed within a span of the goal.
Betis, without control and still without warnings to Courtois.
At the mercy of Tchouameni's Madrid, Modric's Madrid, Vinicius's Madrid...
Ancelotti's team is a chameleon.
Without Toni Kroos's violin, in the shade until the final stretch, he has less pause.
And with Camavinga and Tchouameni he has trumpet players.
Two fellows with a privileged physical deposit who he supports as a youth cadet Modric, who is not far behind among so many athletes.
From the most ruling Real of the first act, it was passed to a Real determined to sign a round trip match.
Bizarro, Betis accepted it, which already had more footprints at the Courtois ranch.
The most vibrant football, the one that abounds in the areas.
And if there are guys like Modric – who almost scored with a left foot – and Canales – who threw tutoring – as hangers, much better.
Blow by blow, it's hard to bring down a team as bloody as Madrid, which knows them all in any plot.
Give it a go, with outstanding traces of Tchouameni, Rodrygo's winning goal came after Valverde's first intervention.
A wonderfully plaited play by several madridistas led to an assist behind the Uruguayan that the Brazilian certified.
Betis did not shrink, which gave Joaquín a reel, who has been successfully at this since the Pleistocene, and everything that Pellegrini had at hand.
A firm Madrid secured the fourth victory after snorting when in the last blink the referee and his VAR comrades did not flinch before an exit from Courtois that left Borja lying.
Nothing will reproach a Betis with a long way to go.
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