VIDEO ⟩ “Real” Madrid pulls out a victory in the Spanish football classic and gets closer to the championship title

In the match held at “Santiago Bernabeu”, the home of “Real”, the hosts won with the result 3:2 (1:1).

Six rounds before the end of the championship, the Madrid team is ahead of the Barcelona team by 11 points.

The guests scored the first goal in this match, when Andres Christensen headed the ball into the goal in the sixth minute after a corner kick. After ten minutes, Pau Kubarsi brought down Lucas Vázquez in the penalty area, whose earned penalty kick was realized by Vinicius Junior, beating Mark Andre ter Stegen – 1:1.

In the second half of the half, the ball almost crossed the goal line of the “Real” team, and only with the help of VAR, the main referee of the match, Cesar Soto Grado, was convinced that the goal should not be counted.

At the end of the first half, due to an ankle injury, the match ended for “Barcelona” midfielder Frankie de Jong, who was replaced by Pedri.

In the middle of the second half, the fight became more tense and in the 69th minute, the Barcelona team returned to the lead after Andrii Lunin kicked the ball in front of him, from where Fermin Lopez scored unhindered. True, four minutes later, the Madrid team restored the balance, after a pass from Vinicius, Vasquez hit the ball into the goal.

Approaching the last ten minutes of regular time, after Lunin’s pass to Vinicius, the Brazilian’s breakthrough to the goal was stopped only by ter Stegen, who prevented the Madrid player from putting his team in the lead.

“Real” scored the winning goal in the first minute of stoppage time, when Jude Bellingham sent the ball into the net after Vasquez’s pass.

With the leading teams playing 32 games each, the leader “Real” Madrid has 81 points, or 11 more than the players of “Barcelona”. “Girona” is third with 68 points, “Atletico” Madrid has 61 points, “Athletic” Bilbao has 58 points, “Real Sociedad” San Sebastian has 51 points, while “Real Betis” of Seville is currently in the last position of the Eurocup with 48 points.