On a Spanish Sunday when it looked like the visiting teams would be absolutely dominant, real madrid Played in the last turn against Girona He was unable to achieve more than a 1-1 draw due to the penalty kick he converted Kylian MbappeWho expanded his lead in the scoring table. However, a group of Xabi Alonso He was left without the leadership he had, despite constantly fighting with it Barcelonathe leader now, has just started and is barely a point away. Franco Mastantuono He recovered from pubalgia and sat on the bench, but the coach did not consider that he was distorting the story.
After the victory of the Blaugrana team on Saturday, over Alaves, with a score of 3-1, the White House had the possibility of regaining the lead against a rival that, although it has just scored important points, is part of the last three that will be relegated today to the second division.
Summary of the draw in Girona
He didn’t deserve to lose, quite the opposite: especially in the second half, he had a lot of scoring situations to win it, but The negative inconsistency began with Alonso’s many strange initial decisions. He placed the Uruguayan Federico Valverde as the right midfielder, moved the Englishman Jude Bellingham to fifth position, and positioned the Turkish Arda Guler as the driver. As a result, a dirty circuit Which found greater meaning in the supplement due to the defensive innocence of Girona, which went on to win in the first half thanks to a collective and personal goal. Ezz El-Din OunahiThe Moroccan, who was a star for his team three years ago in the World Cup in Qatar: It seems that the host wants more instead of taking care of advantage.
As it was, the main success was their penalty kick Vinicius Junior 20 minutes into the second half, the Frenchman turned it around, looking for the ball into the goal He said some things to Argentine goalkeeper Paulo GazzanigaWho had previously tried to make him nervous with other words. The former Tottenham player saved a key header from Eder Militao on the stroke of half-time and then they were unable to get the better of him.
In fact, these ideas of the Real Madrid coach were broken late: the Brazilian Rodrygo entered 18 minutes before the end of the match, and in his name alone the dynamic of the Merengue changed, and he approached an advantage that was not in the end. Meanwhile, Mastantuono dropped among the substitutes. Maybe to play on Wednesday in Bilbao against Athletic, For the date (19th) to be submitted. This is Real Madrid’s third tie in the league, as it ranked second with 33 points.
Visitors who succeeded
victory Villarreal It seemed under control, but it ended up being painful and basic. a team John Foyth He won comfortably Royal Societyin San Sebastian, thanks to goals from Ayoze Perez and Alberto Molero, but the match ended with five goals. Because in the second half, three minutes into the second, the home team scored Carlos Soler’s amazing goal from a corner kick.
The bomb of the day though came from Ander Barenechea, who scored the Basque side’s equalizer with a stunning free-kick, which looked decisive, four minutes from time. It also seemed like that when Beneat Torrentes scored the third goal for the Yellow Submarine on the goal line from Canadian Tani Oluwase, around the fourth minute of extra time. But from that corner kick that the visit had at its disposal came excruciating pain 3-2 To remain in third place in the table: Molero caught it from a long distance from the door of the area and put it on the post, scoring both goals.
Later, the most attractive duel of the day: the Andalusian derby between the two teams Seville Who directs? Matias Almeida and Betis to Valentin Gomez (starter), Ezequiel “Chime” Avila (entered last) and Giovani Lo Celso (Not called). After a negative but constantly fiery first half, Betis achieved a landslide victory with a score of 2-0. Thanks to the contributions of Pablo Fornals and Sergi Altimira: since the defeat of Barcelona at the beginning of October (4-1), Azulinho’s team He lost five of the last six League matches. They barely beat Osasuna 1-0.
Before the draw with Real Madrid, another painful victory would come, this time from… Spanishwhich continues to strengthen and now strikes in Vigo vs Celtic. In a match with few situations, in the 86th minute came a Kiki Garcia header and a weak response from Romanian goalkeeper Ionut Ranu. Those from Catalonia reached the lower zone corresponding to the classification of European competitions.