In one of the most difficult-to-play teams in the Spanish Championship, Real Madrid, which had three draws in a row, was hampered by the pressing of its neighbor to the south of the capital and it took a stroke of foot stopped and the involuntary complicity of the goalkeeper of the 7th of La Liga to launch it Saturday at the Coliseum towards a success synonymous with provisional first place (3-0).
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First turn, a free kick, following an unnecessary fault by Nyom on Bale near the corner post, first went past the goal of Soria, who did not appreciate the handing over of Ferland Mendy that Raphaël Varane cut of the head under his nose, opening of the 100% tri-color score finally attributed to Soria against his camp (34th).
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If Real fared well in the first period, it must also be credited to its last bulwark. In difficulty lately, Thibaut Courtois started 2020 with a three-star game by opposing the big chances of Getafe (24th, 44th and 45th + 2).
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The match turned at the start of the second half. This time, Real scored well by Varane, too alone to place, on a free kick from Kroos, a new victorious whim under the bar of Soria, goal validated after dissipation by the VAR of a hint of offside (54e). Modric closed the mark on a final counter attack in added time (95th + 6).
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Player: Thibaud Courtois
In poor shape at the start of the season, as he had been in his first months at Real in 2018, the 27-year-old Belgian internartional kept his team in the match by pushing back to 0-0 a violent volley from the Argentinian Arambarri . He was still solid when Getafe pressed at the end of the first period, deflecting a shot from Fajr and lying on a free kick from Cabrera. An essential contributor to this victory garnered on the day of Zinédine Zidane’s 4th birthday on the bench.
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Real Madrid is provisional leader of La Liga with a point ahead of FC Barcelona which dispenses a derby of Catalonia in the evening on the lawn of Espanyol (21 hours). Sevilla FC, held in check Friday evening by Athletic Bilbao (1-1) is relegated to five lengths.
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