1-2: El Clásico win for Madrid at Camp Nou

What an finish to a terrific week for Actual Madrid, beating Barcelona within the Clásico at Camp Nou, off the again of a 5-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk within the Champions League on Tuesday. A pleasant purpose from Alaba, bagging his first purpose in an official match for the Whites to place Ancelotti’s facet in entrance earlier than Lucas Vázquez’s late strike sealed the win for the guests earlier than Agüero diminished the deficit deep in to added time. Our workforce, who transfer 5 factors forward of Barcelona in LaLiga, had been stable in defence, medical in assault and secured their fourth consecutive win in el Clásico.

 

The primary threatening transfer got here simply over 20 minutes into the match because the guests had an enormous shout for a penalty after Vini Jr. was introduced down by Mingueza, however the officers didn’t award something. Barcelona responded and had an opportunity to take the lead with 25 minutes on the clock in a one-on-one, however Dest shot over when closing in on Courtois. The primary purpose got here seven minutes later when Alaba broke on a counter-attack after profitable the ball again from deep, he performed in Vinicius Jr. who switched play with a exact lengthy move to Rodrygo, who laid the ball off for Alaba, who lower contained in the field and fired dwelling with a well-struck left-footed shot. Actual Madrid went in on the break a purpose to the great, regardless of Piqué having the possibility to attract degree within the thirty fifth minute with an effort that went narrowly large from a Memphis nook.

El Clásico was proving to be a hard-fought contest and that once more proved to be the case after the restart. Madrid seemed to profit from their tempo because the areas started to open up and got here near doubling the benefit on 62’. A scrumptious lofted move from Luka Modrić discovered Karim Benzema, whose snapshot was gathered in by Ter Stegen. The minutes continued to tick by and Barcelona went in quest of an equaliser, with Dest’s left-footed piledriver from the sting of the realm flying large of the goal. From that time on and up till the ultimate whistle, Actual Madrid seemed very stable defensively and labored nicely as a unit proper throughout the pitch. Lucas Vázquez put the consequence past the hosts’ attain when he wolfed up the rebound after Ter Stegen may solely parry Marco Asensio’s effort, while Agüero diminished the arrears with the final transfer of the match.