Vinicius' music will get Madrid excited as they beat Espanyol | Football | Sports | EUROtoday

It appears that Real Madrid shall be taking part in rock and roll, taking part in guitar, joyful in its wild register. Against Espanyol, that they had a extra educational first half, extra structured of their creation, filled with possibilities, however with out the illumination of success. Until chaos and Vinicius appeared collectively, and Madrid went wild like on these nights once they play desperately. That's how they obtained previous Espanyol, who had held on with gritted tooth till the Brazilian turned up the music within the Bernabéu with nice look after the quantity because of the battle with the neighbours.

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Thibaut Courtois, Fran Garcia, Dani Carvajal (Lucas Vazquez, min. 58), Eder Militao, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Jude Bellingham (Antonio Rüdiger, min. 83), Luka Modric, Federico Valverde, Rodrygo (Endrick, min. 83), Arda Güler (Vinicius Junior, min. 54) and Kylian Mbappé

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The staff from the 2000s, who have been joined by Alejo Veliz, Jofre Carreras, and the remainder of the solid, are joined by Joan Garcia, Leandro Cabrera, Omar El Hilali, Carlos Romero, Alvaro Tejero (Alvaro Aguado, min. 75), Marash Kumbulla, Jofre Carreras (Irvin Cardona, min. 75), Alex Kral, Pol Lozano (Jose Gragera, min. 66), Walid Cheddira (Alejo Veliz, min. 45) and Javi Puado (Pere Milla, min. 80)

Goals
0-1 min. 53: Courtois. 1-1 min. 57: Dani Carvajal. 2-1 min. 74: Rodrygo. 3-1 min. 77: Vinicius Junior. 4-1 min. 89: Kylian Mbappe

Referee Jose Luis Munuera Montero

Yellow playing cards

Pol Lozano (min. 9), Kylian Mbappe (min. 31), Federico Valverde (min. 60), Joan Garcia (min. 73), Jude Bellingham (min. 80), Vinicius Junior (min. 81), Carlos Romero (min. 87)

Vinicius had began on the bench, his first break within the eighth recreation of the season. Ancelotti left him off, like Rüdiger and Mendy, and introduced on Fran García, Tchouameni as a centre-back and Arda Güler, who occupied the proper flank and left the left for Rodrygo. The Turk did one thing uncommon: with out Vinicius on the pitch, Madrid rediscovered that different flank. There he joined Modric and even attracted Mbappé. And there the blurred recreation that Madrid had been taking part in out of the blue turned clear. Güler touched the ball and readability appeared. Suddenly, Ancelotti's staff was flowing within the build-up, the place it had moved in suits and begins. It monopolised the ball, with Espanyol watching within the entrance row. And bailing out water.

Real Madrid stored coming and coming: ten photographs within the first half hour of monologue. Mbappé discovered himself with the ball a number of occasions and with out defenders on his option to the goalkeeper. But all his makes an attempt ended up within the fingers of Joan García. Madrid produced on the proper flank with Güler and Modric, and likewise, when the Turk paused, on the left, the place Rodrygo and Bellingham started to spin. Then Mbappé obtained near them and likewise caught possibilities there. Everything labored for Madrid, besides their goal. Joan García was a magnet: he made saves with out even stretching himself.

Espanyol, who had simply returned to the highest flight, have been holding on to the succession of assaults with out with the ability to catch their breath with the ball. Kral, Lozano and Tejero have been solely capable of hyperlink up a few passes. The longest durations of respite have been supplied by Joan García when it was his flip to place the ball again into play. In the primary quarter of an hour they have been already dragging their toes as in the event that they have been defending a lead to added time, which was already very near the top.

But they nonetheless had fun underneath the downpour. They reached the break with a clear slate regardless of 14 photographs from Madrid, a small milestone. They had not tried so exhausting on the Bernabéu since August 2019 with out scoring. The gamers have been booed on the best way to the dressing room. Everything may very well be heard in a Bernabéu with the PA system muted, with hardly any music within the minutes earlier than or in the course of the break, a crackling murmur.

The monotony was damaged by a stray bullet. Carvajal failed to complete off a cross within the six-yard field, Joan García took the ball searching for the area left by the full-back, and Jofre discovered himself operating, chased by Güler. He reached the byline and tried to cross again. But the ball grazed the Turk and slipped between Courtois' legs.

The response, with Vinicius already on the pitch, appeared to return out of a mirror. Bellingham reached the opposite finish line and his shot slipped underneath the goalkeeper's aspect. Carvajal, as soon as once more within the six-yard field, smashed the ball into the web. And nearly with out celebrating, apparently injured, he went to ask Ancelotti for a substitution.

The objectives stirred up Madrid, and that agitation triggered the dysfunction that had till then flowed extra Cartesian. The objectives introduced an urgency that the stopwatch didn’t require, however that provides life to Madrid, which continued to reach, already matted, extra rock and roll. But nonetheless with out give attention to the goal. Espanyol held on. Until Vinicius accelerated. He took off down the left and took a kind of pecks with the skin of the ball to the panic zone, proper in entrance of the goalkeeper, the place Rodrygo pushed the purpose.

In the subsequent run, Mbappé discovered him and Vinicius scored the third. The fourth was born from one other wild outburst. Endrick saved a ball on the nook flag and commenced to advance with Romero hanging on his again. Until he reached the realm and, from the place there was nothing, he took a penalty, which Mbappé did reach doing to shut one other portion of rock and roll in a Bernabéu that flirts with silence.