The virtuosity of the Kylian Mbappé-Arda Güler duo was not enough. Real Madrid was dried (5-2) in the capital's derby on Saturday, on the lawn of Atletico Madrid, and saw its invincibility in the league ending after 6 consecutive victories. In a boosted atmosphere, the Merengues did not hold the distance against the band to Diego Simeone, which took over permanent in the second period.
The show was up to the event at Riyadh Metropolitano and first thanks to the Franco-Turkish tandem mentioned above. If it was Robin the Normand who opened the scoring of a powerful head (1-0, 14th), Kylian Mbappé continued his start to the season with a fanfare by converting a splendid service of Arda Güler (1-1, 25th) for his 8th goal in 7 Liga matches, before seeing the former fenerbahçe take a victoriously resuming a Vinicius offer (1-2, 36th).
Alvarez, the man of the match
Just before the break, Alexander Sorloth deviated from the head a center of Koke, taking over a dean Huijsen in trouble throughout the game (2-2, 45th+3).
It was after the rest that Real Madrid completely flanked and disappeared. Julian Alvarez, a great man of the second act, first gave the advantage to his on penalty (3-2, 50th) after a badly mastered tackle from Güler. Then, on a magic paw on a free kick, the Argentinian made the Madrid arena roar to make the station wagon (4-2, 64th).
Antoine Griezmann entered the end of the match to participate in the party and took the opportunity to score the fifth and last goal of the Colchoneros on a flat foot in the face of Courtois (5-2, 90th+4).
In the event of the victory of FC Barcelona against Real Sociedad on Sunday, Real Madrid will lose the head of the championship for the benefit of its other historic rival.