Real Madrid win at the Bernabéu
This Thursday the match corresponding to matchday 36 of LaLiga took place where Real Madrid received Levante at the Santiago Bernabéu, in a match where the merengue team ended up scoring 6-0, ahead of the UEFA Champions League final next May 28…
Ancelotti took advantage of the opportunity to make some rotations. Courtois was defending the goal, while Lucas Vázquez, Vallejo, Nacho and Mendy were on defense. Valverde, Camavinga and Modric were in the midfield; and Rodrygo, Benzema and Vinicius led the attack.
The match began with a chance for the visitors that Vallejo ended up neutralizing and in minute 2, the Whites responded with a powerful shot by Benzema from the edge of the area that ended up being deflected by goalkeeper Cárdenas.
However, Madrid would go ahead on the scoreboard at minute 13. Modric and Mendy exchanged positions. The Croatian receives a pass down the left wing, while the Frenchman decided to run away at speed to which Modric sends him a long pass, Mendy controls and entering the area he decides to shoot at the near post, fooling Cárdenas and scoring the first.
Two minutes later, Benzema once again had a chance and the Levante goalkeeper stopped it, the rebound was left to Valverde, but the defense neutralized the action. At 16 'Modric raises a center to the area that Valverde manages to finish off, but the post prevents the second.
At 18', Mendy would receive another pass that would encourage him to re-enter the area and this time he took a shot from the right, which the goalkeeper manages to deflect for a corner. But a minute later, from the left wing, Vinicius raised a cross into the small area that Benzema managed to finish off with a header to send it into the back of the net. 2-0 partial and the win was on the way.
Real Madrid cornered Levante and generated many dangerous chances. Vinicius at 21', Rodrigo at 23' and Benzema at minute 26. Cárdenas stopped some of them and the Frenchman's went out for very little. Previously, at 25', Son for Levante had taken a shot from the edge of the area that passed by.
Similarly, at 30' Rodrygo would score a goal that would be annulled for offside, but the 3-0 would come from the same Brazilian, who at minute 33 went to the area from the right wing, but gave it to Modric who He took a low cross into the small area and Rodrygo was there to push it and convert the third.
Ancelotti's men never tired of creating dangerous chances, at 37', Modric fired a shot that Cárdenas stopped, but the rebound ended up falling to Valverde, who took a powerful shot that the goalkeeper stopped again, but the deflection hit the goal. post. The fourth was almost there.
At minute 41, the Uruguayan would once again take a powerful shot from the edge of the area and the ball hit the crossbar. However, at 44' Vinicius would make it 4-0, after a pass that left him hand in hand with the goalkeeper and the Brazilian took a cross shot to convert the fourth. With that marker they would go to rest.
The second half would begin with the same attitude as those at home. Valverde at 48 'takes a shot from medium distance that the goalkeeper ends up taking just right. At minute 49', Modric also shot on goal, but the goalkeeper again avoided the goal. At 51' the visitors respond with a long shot from Pepelu who passes close by.
At 55', Benzema gives a ball to Vinicius who goes hand in hand with Cárdenas again and the Brazilian makes him a 'Vaseline', but the ball ends up going wide. Two minutes later, Vinicius had a goal disallowed for being offside.
But at 67' the play of the fifth takes place. Modric passes him a great ball with the outside to leave Benzema hand in hand with the goalkeeper, the Frenchman dribbles past the goalkeeper and ends up making a pass to Vinicius that ended up pushing her into the back of the net. 5-0 and second so far for the Brazilian.
At minute 83' the last goal of the match would be scored. Real Madrid recovered a ball at Levante's exit, Jovic, who had entered for Benzema, gives Vinicius a filtered pass who, escaping from two defenders, ends up taking a low shot that ended in the final 6-0 and a hat-trick. trick for the Brazilian.
With this victory Madrid, already champion, reaches 84 points, while Levante is bottom with only 29 and mathematically they have already relegated to the Second Division.
It should be noted that with his goal, Benzema equaled Raúl González as the second highest scorer in the history of Real Madrid. He has 323 goals with the white shirt. This season he has scored 44 goals (27 in the league and 15 in the Champions League). Cristiano Ronaldo heads the list as the top scorer in merengue history with 451 goals.
Other results of the day
This Thursday the matches between Real Sociedad and Cádiz were also played at Anoeta, where the home team won with a score of 3-0. The goals were scored by Sorloth at 19', Januzaj from a penalty at 53' and at 90+8' Portu also from eleven steps.
While Villarreal beat Rayo Vallecano at home with a score of 1-5. Guardiola scored for the home side at 21', while Pedraza (3' and 88'), Foyth (27'), Alcácer (38') and Torres (45+1') scored.
Barcelona also consolidated their place in the UEFA Champions League on this matchday, by beating Celta at home with a score of 3-1. Similarly, Atlético de Madrid (67 points) who beat Elche 0-2 and Sevilla (66) who drew goalless with Mallorca at Pizjuán, will have to seal their place in the top European club competition in the other day.