Monday 3 October 2022 – 20:34
ABU DHABI, 3 October / WAM / Real Madrid have failed and striker Karim Benzema has failed again against Osasuna, to return to the top of the Spanish football league at Barcelona after an absence of 833 days.
Real Madrid have lost their first two points in defending the Spanish league title this season, drawing 1-1 with host Osasuna yesterday, Sunday, in the seventh round of the competition, after 6 straight wins for the team; The title holder dropped to second in the standings with a goal difference against Barcelona, which secured the end of the round leading for the first time since he relinquished the lead on 21 June 2020.
The partnership between the two leading teams is expected to be a further element of excitement if the situation continues like this until their expected meeting, “El Clasico”, two weeks later.
And in a group marked by many goals (27 goals), before the expected conclusion on Monday, with the match between Rayo Vallecano and Elche, Real Madrid scored only one goal against Osasuna.
Benzema also failed on penalties again against this team and missed a golden opportunity to win in the 80th minute, being his third penalty against Osasuna.
While Benzema looked far from his level, as he had appeared last season, Pole Robert Lewandowski was on a rendezvous with a new footprint with Barcelona, where the player scored the team’s 1-0 winning goal. over Real Mallorca, to be the sixth consecutive victory for Barcelona in search of a return to the local title.
Lewandowski upped his score to 9 goals on this season’s top scorers list, pointing out that he is Barcelona’s winning mascot this season, as he has scored around half of the team’s 19 goals in the competition so far, as well as scoring two. goals.
This is the sixth consecutive game in which Lewandowski has scored against rivals Barcelona in the local league, while the player’s goals were absent only in the first team game of the competition, which ended goalless against Rayo Vallecano.
The Barcelona defense also received a new certificate of achievement in the Spanish league this season, after keeping a clean sheet for the fifth straight game, so that Barcelona remain the best defense team in the competition so far, having conceded a goal. in 7 games.
This round confirmed that the title race will also be a pair this season, after Real Betis began to decline by beating Celta Vigo, who reduced their score to 15 points in fourth place, 4 points behind Barcelona and Real. Madrid as Athletic Bilbao continued their attempts to stay in the competition circle for the lead with a big 4-0 win over Almeria, which they lost for a fourth straight game.
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Ahmed Zahran
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