Real Madrid are going through a period they haven’t experienced for quite a while. Beaten by AC Milan in the Champions League (1-3) and humiliated by FC Barcelona in La Liga (0-4), the Merengue club is nine points behind its eternal Catalan rival and wanted to regain success at home against Osasuna , this Saturday. With Rodrygo, Vinicius Jr and Mbappé at the forefront, Carlo Ancelotti wanted to dampen Osasuna’s good start to the season, fifth in La Liga after 12 days.
Osasuna had chosen to wait for the Madrid attackers and did well at the start of the match. After 20 minutes and a first big chance created from distance, Rodrygo was forced to leave his partners due to injury. Same thing for Militao, evacuated on a stretcher a few moments later (28th). Despite these physical problems, Vini Jr sounded the revolt with a powerful strike, after a nice hook (1-0, 34th). And after a superb long pass from young Raul Asencio, Bellingham scored its first goal of the season by lobbing Herrera to make the break (2-0, 42nd).
Kylian Mbappé did not participate in the party
After the break and an injury to Vázquez, Real Madrid continued with a fiery Vinicius Jr, who scored a double by winning his duel in front of Herrera, on a long clearance from Lunin (3-0, 61st). The Gorritxoak couldn’t do it anymore in this second act and cracked again after a good move from Diaz… for Vinicius Jr’s hat-trick (4-0, 69th). Enough to make the Santiago Bernabéu sing, after two heavy defeats conceded last week.
Everything was perfect on the merengue side, except for the too tender performance of Kylian Mbappé, very disappointed not to have scored. The French international, who was not called up by Didier Deschamps for the upcoming break, missed the few chances he got. From a collective point of view, Real Madrid remains second and is six points behind Barcelona, who will play at Real Sociedad on Sunday. Osasuna remains in fifth place for the moment and suffers its fourth defeat of the season.
