Very special match tonight for Real Madrid. Relegated seven lengths from FC Barcelona to the classification after the loss of the Clasico (3-4), the club of Kylian Mbappé continued to believe in a tiny hope of overthrowing the steam. For this it was necessary to win the Bernabéu against Mallorca (9th) and hope for a defeat tomorrow of the Blaugranas during the Catalan derby against the Espanyol. Any other results that the blaugranas crowned before their match of tomorrow. Win home against the ninth, the mission is not insurmountable. Except that the Merengues tackled this match in a difficult context. Their coach, Carlo Ancelotti, already announced his departure in Brazil and the Italian was above all to manage an avalanche of absent.
Novel disgusted the Merengues
A few hours before the meeting, Andriy Lunin and Brahim Diaz had to forfeit, bringing the number of players at twelve! A suspension (Aurélien Tchouameni) and eleven injured: Dani Carvajal, Lucas Vázquez, Eder Militao, Antonio Rüdiger, David Alaba, Ferland Mendy, Eduardo Camavonga, Vinicius Junior, Lunin, Rodrygo and therefore Diaz. Faced with this observation, Ancelotti had no choice but to call on several elements of the reserve team. However, the Transalpin, who had only ten players of the first team, was to align a team respecting the Laliga regulation. Clearly, there had to be permanently seven players of the first team on the field during the match. Otherwise, it was a lost match. This is why Ancelotti aligned an eleven composed of Courtois, Garcia, Asencio, Ramon, Ceballos, Modric, Valverde, Bellingham, Güler, Endrick and Mbappé.
Obliged to win to avoid the party in Barcelona before the Catalan derby, Madrid attacked the floor. Launched in depth by Güler, Endrick had the opportunity to open the scoring in the third minute, but the Brazilian missed his face-to-face with the goalkeeper Majorquin Leo Roman. The beginnings of yet another disillusionment? This season, everything went wrong for the Merengues and the opening of the Mallorca score on his first action of the match is proof. The defender took advantage of the defensive generosity to go and beat courteous with an unstoppable left strike (0-1, 11th). Led, Real Madrid allowed Barça to be crowned Spanish champion without having played. Failing to be brilliant collectively, the Florentino Pérez club tried to react with its main evening advantages, namely Arda Güler and Kylian Mbappé, the only two real accelerators of the game. But that was without counting on a novel of the big evenings. In the first period, the 24 -year -old Spanish porter released no less than five huge parades who disgusted Endrick (3rd), Mbappé (18th, 41st), Modric (37th) and Valverde (43rd). At the break, Madrid returned to the cloakroom with his head, unable to make the difference in the game.
Rewarded, Mbappé puts pressure on Gykeres
Upon returning from the locker room, Mallorca had obviously decided to defend his goal in advance by remaining grouped in his half of the field. Result: we therefore attended the headquarters of the Majorquin goal with, once again, Mbappé in the role of the only player capable of creating spaces without succeeding in finding the fault. The Casa Blanca had some occasions, however, such as this stolen chest control chain of Modric (49th) or this shot from Güler without great danger for novel (54th). In the 64th minute, small event. Carlo Ancelotti brought Jesus Vallejo in place of Raul Asencio, but not to please him. If the 28 -year -old defender was able to play his second game of the season, it was so that his coach could bring young people from the reserve team without taking the risk of losing the match. Indeed, Madrid must have on the field at least seven players with a first team contract. Which is not the case with Asencio. Thanks to this maneuver, Gonzalo Garcia was able to enter Endrick (74th).
Before this little sleight of hand, Mbappé was logically rewarded for his efforts by equalizing despite the marking of three defenders (1-1, 68th). His 40th goal of the season did not prevent the coronation of Barça, but he allowed the French to consolidate his place of Pichichi of La Liga (28 achievements), with three lengths ahead of Robert Lewandowski. Another consequence: the Bondynois put pressure on the Swedish Viktor Gyökeres in the gold shoe race. In the process, Real Madrid could have been trapped again against the course of the game so courteous had not imposed itself against Mateu (69th). The end of the match was one -sided and novel shone again by making a decisive stop against Bellingham (84th) before throwing itself into the feet of Ceballos (85th) and making a horizontal class on yet another shot on a framework of Valverde (90th). Gonzalo Garcia also missed the goal on a French caviar (89th). Ultra domineering, but upset by a Leo Roman of the big evenings, Real Madrid finally was able to win in stoppages thanks to Jacobo Ramon (2-1, 90th+5). A goal that prevents Barça from being sacred this evening.
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