Real Madrid vs Celta, well deserved victory for "merengues"

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The 4th journey for both teams was played at the new Santiago Bernabéu, stadium that had been being rehabilitated during the year before. 

Carlo Ancelotti´ squad played for first time in one and half year in front of their fans. Due to the situation that we are passing with Covid-19, only a 40% of the stadium capacity could be filled up, so only 29.000 people could enjoy the match in the stadium.

If we analyzed the situation of both teams before the match, we could see that the team of Vigo has only got 1 of the last 9 points, being situated in the drop zone. On the other hand, Real Madrid got 7 of the 9 possible points, leading Laliga’s classification. Ancelotti´s team would fight to keep the lead position, meanwhile Celta would try to climb some positions from the drop zone.

Match summary:

The game was played Sunday 12^th of September at 9 p.m. We could see how Celta started pressuring at Real Madrid’s field, and it was not in vain because only 4 minutes after starting the match, the Galician striker Santi Mina could score to get ahead his team on the score.

After 20 minutes and many occasions of Real Madrid, “merengues” got the long-awaited goal to tie the score. 1-1 was then the provisional result, got by Karim Benzema, but the happiness wouldn’t stay longer because Celta scored only 6 minutes later. 1-2 was the score at finish of the first half in Santiago Bernabéu, with a Real Madrid without ideas to threat Celta’s area. 

2^nd half started with good news for the team of Madrid. At minute 46, the same striker of the first goal for Real Madrid, Benzema, scored again after an excellent cross of Miguel Gutierrez to upload the tie again in the score. Real Madrid was having again good feelings. In the next minutes, they could get ahead on the score with some dangerous shoots, but the goal came after a marvelous pass of Benzema to the young player Vinicius, who, calmly, entered in the area and finished the play like a world-class forward. “Vini” showed all the fans of Real Madrid that he had been improving for a long time his way to finish, fact that could be a key for “Vini” to become a much better winger. 

Minute 66 and Eden Hazard, who hadn’t done a good match, was substituted by one of the best young stars of the moment, Eduardo Camavinga. The French player had been trespassed the last day of the transfer market and came to Real Madrid as the candidate to be one of the best midfielders of the world in a few years. We can say that the young player didn’t start bad at his new team. After 6 minutes of his debut, he scored his first goal with the white t-shirt after an excellent ball driving of Luca Modric. 

Once another goal uploaded to score, Real Madrid slowed down the game´s pace. At minute 87, after a long run of Vinicius Jr and a great skill move, he provoked a penalty, in which Benzema could get his hat-trick and leave the stadium with the ball.

Post-match:

The match would finish with this result, 5-2, in a fixture in which Real Madrid started with several problems but as the time ran, “merengues” were able to sentence the match thanks to their quality. We could se an overwhelming Madrid in attack but with some problems in the back part. As the captain of the white squad said in the interview after the match, “merengues” will have to improve several things in the defense. We also have to know that Ancelotti´s team had important players out due to different reasons like the French player Ferland Mendy, Toni Kroos or David Alaba, who will be incorporated during the next weeks.  

With this match we ended the 4^th journey of LaLiga. Real Madrid continues leading the classification and, on the other hand, Celta has had a bad start to the season. Now they are in the drop zone, but this is not how it begins, but how it ends.

Real Madrid vs Mallorca: Quality saves Madrid from draw

The match was very important for Real Madrid and the Balear team. If white squad won, he would come back to leader zone. For his side, Mallorca also needed to win, because they wanted to go out from the drop zone.

The match was played at Madrid´s training field because of the works in Santiago Bernabeu. It was played the 24th of June at 22:00h.

Nothing suggested that we were watching an extraordinary match, but it´s important to say that it would debut Luka Romero with Mallorca´s t-shirt, we´re talking about the youngest boy that debuts in the history of La LIga, with only 15 years old. He didn´t play as titular, but he would enter during  final minutes.

The match debuted a bit boring. Both teams started playing slow and patient, so there weren´t many attempts.

But after the time-out, Real Madrid came stronger and Vinicius got the 1-0 to Real Madrid in a controversial play, because just before the goal, there was a possible fault by Carvajal to a Mallorca Player.

In the second half Mallorca started to play better and had some opportunities, but they didn´t reach the draw. Later Sergio Ramos scored a very nice goal by fault and putted the 2-0.

In the last minutes, Mallorca did some player and system changes , but it didn´t serve for much, because the final result was of 2-0.

Real Madrid didn´t play as well as other matches, but his quality let them to win 2-0.

Real Sociedad vs Real Madrid: Most controversial match we´ve watched

This match was very important for the both teams. Each one with his objectives. If Real Madrid won, he would come home being the first qualified in La Liga, after Barcelona´s draw in Seville, two days before. Different objectives for the Basque set who needed to win to continue in the fight of the UCL positions.

The match was played in Anoeta Sunday 21st of June at 22:00.

It started boring. Any of the two teams had occasions, but the first half ended in draw without goals. We note the attempts were not dangerous.

The second half was different. Real Madrid started having some good chances and in one of this, Vinicius provoked a penalty that scored Ramos. Few minutes later, it was cancelled a goal of Januzaj for Real Sociedad arguing Mikel Merino´s offside.  

Following, in the next play, Benzema scored the second goal for Real Madrid, but there was the feeling he had controlled the ball with his arm just before he shot. Finally, the goal wasn´t cancelled and Madrid was winning by 0-2.

In the lasts 10 minutes, the Basque team scored the 1-2, but finally they couldn´t put the draw in the scoreboard.

In a quick summary: lot of people think that the penalty to Vinicius wasn´t penalty, that Benzema controlled the ball with his arm and that the goal cancelled to Real Sociedad was legal.

This was the most controversial match of the week and even of the season.

Real Madrid vs Eibar: Madrid takes it easy

The last match Real Madrid played was at Benito Villamarín agains Real Betis. They lost in the last minutes, so they wanted to return to LaLiga better than they ended. In the other hand, Eibar lost 1-2 his match facing Real Sociedad.

Both teams wanted to improve from the bad results of the last time.

The match was going to be played in Santiago Bernabeu, but a cause of the works in Real Madrid´s stadium it had to be played in the training field called Alfredo Di Stéfano, a very small building , but not less big than Ipurúa, Eibar´s stadium.

Fixture started at 7.30 p.m . Real Madrid started dominating the spherical and in the 4th minute Toni Kroos forwarded Madrid in the score. Just before the time out to drink and repose, Madrid´s captain, Sergio Ramos with a thrilling move scored the second goal of the match and opened more the distance between the two teams. Just seven minutes later Marcelo, with an amazing shoot got the ball enter to the goal scoring the third of the match. His celebration was about the racism in U.S.A.

In the second half Real Madrid gave the ball to Eibar, they relaxed a lot because thew were winning by 3-0. One goal of Eibar in the minute 60 would seemed to scare Madrid but this result continued until the end.

Finally, Real Madrid won 3-1 and rested home happy.

Eibar played much better in the second half, and, in the other hand, Madrid won only playing good at the first half.