He Real Madrid won 2-0 Villarreal on the ninth round of the League at the Santiago Bernabéu and has the same points as the Barcelona (21), although the Blaugrana have Sunday’s game in Vitoria against Alavés pending.
with french Kylian Mbappé starter although far from his best level after recovering from a muscle injury, the goals for the whites were the work of the Uruguayan Fede Valverde (14) and from the Brazilian Vinicius (73) in a match that ended with the defender Dani Carvajal Leaving the grass injured on a stretcher.
“It seems like a pretty serious knee injury. The locker room is sad and worried. It is an injury that happens many times on the calendar, unfortunately it has happened to a very important player for us,” said the Italian coach of the whites. Carlo Ancelotti.
Carvajal injured himself after making a strange movement with his right knee. His cry of pain When he fell to the grass he reached the microphones of the TV broadcast, which made the sequence even more dramatic.
Lucas Vázquez was the first to approach to try to contain him, and then the rest of his teammates approached. Carvajal, who had been called up by Luis de la Fuente to play for the Spanish national team, moves on the floor between sobs.
Real Madrid, who had just suffered their first defeat after 36 games In the Lille field this Wednesday in the Champions League (1-0), it started without the Brazilian Rodrygo and with Vinicius accompanying Mbappé in the attack, and with the Englishman Jude Bellingham behind.
The Uruguayan started in midfield Fede Valverdethe Croatian Luka Modric and the french Camavinga.
The Uruguayan’s goal Fede Valverde It came in the 14th minute with a shot from outside the area that hit Villarreal player Álex Baena and confused goalkeeper Diego Conde.
Vinicius appeared after the first 30 minutes of the game with a couple of chances generated from the left wing that were close to ending in a goal, as well as a shot from Bellingham from the front that was touching the left post.
Villarreal came close to scoring in the second half from a free kick taken by Baena that brushed the left post. But the one who scored the second was the Real Madrid with a powerful shot from Vinicius (73) from outside the area.
The match ended with the ‘merengue’ defender Dani Carvajal leaving the field on a stretcher between gestures of pain after being injured in the last minute of the match.
Real Madrid is chaining a streak of 41 games without losing in the League. “It was a game with order, a good attitude, without too much intensity but when we opened the scoring we controlled it well, without taking risks, defending compactly and there were 3 very important points. We took it forward correctly,” Ancelotti noted.
The whites’ star forward, Kylian Mbappé, was little present in the team’s game. In fact, Ancelotti changed him in the 70th minute for Rodrygo.
This week the coach of the French team Didier Deschamps He did not call up the captain of the ‘Bleus’ for the next two games of the Nations League, something that generated controversy in the French country although the coach claimed the need to give his star a rest.
Real Madrid sleeps tied on points with the Barcelonaboth are 21, but the culés will play this Sunday against Alavés and they also have the goal difference in their favor.
The next match for the whites will take place after the national team break on October 19 against the Vig Celticor in Balaídos.
Villarreal, which provisionally remains third with 17 points, will face Getafe on matchday 10 at the Cerámica stadium.