The Bernabéu was waiting for a show, he was entitled to a high tension duel. This Saturday, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid left back to back (1-1), at the end of a derby where the intensity did not miss, but where Real can feed regrets.
A penalty that makes (again)
The first act was padlocked, the two teams feared more than they dared to attack. But it was the referee who decided to put a little spice in this closed match. In the 35th minute, a slight fault of Tchouameni – a foot hanging out in the area – offered a penalty to Atlético. After a passage through the Var (just to properly raise the tension), the referee confirmed his decision, to the Dam of the Merengue, already went back after the arbitral scandal against the Espanyol.
Julián Álvarez did not tremble and transformed the offering of a panenka full of cheek, leaving courteous marble. The Bernabéu scolded, but it was necessary to make the men of Ancelotti bend.
Real and Atletico could not decide.
Mbappé, Savior of Merengues
Back to the locker room, change of tone. Real came back with rage in the stomach. And it only took five minutes for Kylian Mbappé to sound the revolt. A shot from Jude Bellingham badly rejected by the Defense Colchonera, and Mbappé, in renate of surfaces, arises to equalize a precise shot from the right (50th).
Real then took control of the match. Vinicius lit the wick in the 72nd minute with a powerful strike that Jan Oblak had to box in disaster. Rodrygo, he came close to the frame of a shot wound in the 83rd. But the goal of the KO has never come.
Regrets, but Real remains the leader
Real Madrid may say frustrated at not having taken the three points, especially after a last half hour one-way. But this no one is not so dramatic: the Merengues keep the head of the Liga with a point ahead of Atlético. On the stats side, Mbappé takes the opportunity to get closer to Lewandowski in the scorer ranking, being only two lengths from the Polish.
In the end, this derby did not find a winner, but he offered his share of tensions, controversies and spectacle. In short, everything we love in a Madrid derby.
