Summary clip of today's events in sport, 31.1 (Sport1)
After Barcelona temporarily increased the gap to eight points at the top, Real Madrid must win tonight (Thursday, 22:00) at home against Valencia to narrow the gap back from 5 and prevent the leader from running away.
The Blancos will hope to take advantage of the fact that the opponent, who parted ways with Gennaro Gattuso this week, is in bad form with four league games without a win.
Real Madrid also dropped precious points on Sunday when they finished 0:0 at home against Real Sociedad and thus allowed arch rival Barcelona to escape at the top.
Orlain Tshuamani and Dani Carvajal are back from injury but they are waiting on the bench.
Marco Asensio and Luka Modric, who did not start in the draw against the Basques, came up this time in Carlo Ancelotti's 11.
Eduardo Kamabinga is again at left back in the absence of his injured compatriot Ferlan Mendy, Dani Sabaios and Toni Kroos in midfield, Vinicius and Karim Benzema as usual in attack.
Real Madrid Madrid met Valencia only about three weeks ago in the Super Cup, a match that ended in their victory at the end of a penalty shootout, and they cannot afford to lose more points at home, on a field where they have not lost this season.
In the last 16 meetings with Valencia at the Santiago Bernabeu, they did not lose at all and won 11 of them.
Valencia has not won in its last four games in the league and in all competitions it has won a total of two games out of the last ten, they were also in the cup and not against teams from the top league, but for the meeting against Real Madrid they will show up for the first time without coach Gennaro Gattuso who was fired and who will guide them will be Vero, who managed Dozens of games as the temporary coach of the team and was also its head coach in the second half of the 2016/17 season.
Must win in order to close the gap with Barcelona.
Ancelotti (Photo: GettyImages)
the progress of the game
3 min: An outstanding deep ball from Toni Kroos found Marco Asensio who kicked Giorgi Mamardashvili's corner, but the Bats keeper got down to the ball superbly and pushed away the Spanish midfielder's chance.
19th minute: A wonderful team move by the Blancos passed from Karim Benzema with a heel pass to Asensio who broke free for a kick from 11 meters and was blocked on the way to the corner.
23rd minute: Asensio lifted a ball into the Valencia square in an attempt to find Benzema near the left post, Gabriel Paulista prevented the Frenchman's shot from close range and deflected it into the corner.
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Spectacular save in the opening.
From Mardashvili (Photo: Reuters)
28th minute: Benzema left a ball for Vinicius on the left side of the Valencia square, the Brazilian kicked flat and weak into Mamradashvili's hands.
30 minutes: Eduardo Camabinga joined the attack from the left wing, but only kicked into the outer net of the Georgian goalkeeper of Valencia.
45+2 min: Antonio Rudiger had already celebrated his winning goal with a shot, but the referee was called to watch the move by the VAR judges and saw a flagrant foul by Benzema that hit Yunus Moussa in the face.
The goal was disallowed and the French striker received a yellow card.
A worrying injury.
Militau (Photo: Reuters)
52nd minute: Goal!
Asensio broke free into an excellent position outside Mamradashvili's box and kicked a tremendous ball into Valencia's connections.
0:1 to Real Madrid!
55th minute: Goal!
Vinicius broke through on the left wing and finished one on one against Mamradashvili with a sharp and flat kick to the right corner on the way to a promising lead.
0:2 to Real Madrid!
68th minute: Marcus Andre came off the bench and with his first kick to Thibaut Courtois' goal narrowly missed Real's frame with an acrobatic performance.
Blitz at the beginning of the second half.
Asensio (Photo: Reuters)
A great finish from the Brazilian.
Vinicius (Photo: Reuters)
72nd minute: Red card!
One of the most blatant offenses we have seen this season - Paulista wildly kicked Vinicius hard and was immediately sent off by the referee in an incident that broke out on the field.
Valencia is left with ten players!
90th minute: A free ball on the edge of the Valencia area by Rodrigo found Mamradashvili ready and the goalkeeper headed for the corner.
An ugly foul that left the bats with ten players.
Paulista (Photo: Reuters)
Spanish league 2022/23
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Barcelona
19
16
2
1
7-39
50
2
Real Madrid
18
13
3
2
16-38
42
3
Real Sociedad
19
12
3
4
18-28
39
4
Athletico Madrid
19
10
4
5
16-28
34
5
in flight
19
9
4
6
16-21
31
6
Villarreal
19
9
4
6
14-21
31
7
We saw it
19
8
5
6
22-25
29
8
Osasuna
19
8
4
7
18-18
28
9
Athletic Bilbao
19
7
5
7
20-25
26
10
Majorca
19
7
4
8
18-15
25
11
Almeria
19
6
4
9
29-23
22
12
Girona
19
5
6
8
29-26
21
13
Seville
19
5
6
8
26-21
21
14
Valladolid
19
6
2
11
28-14
20
15
Espanyol
19
4
8
7
29-23
20
16
Valencia
18
5
5
8
21-25
20
17
Celta de Vigo
19
5
5
9
29-18
20
18
Cadiz
19
4
7
8
29-14
19
19
Getafe
19
4
5
10
26-16
17
20
Alecha
19
0
6
13
39-12
6
On Sunday, Real Madrid will host Mallorca in the 20th round.
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