Real Valladolid 0-1 Real Madrid: Nacho's goal wins it for Los Blancos
Madrid did not play well but they won and it was enough to go top
Real Madrid lead La Liga. They did it ugly, in a bad game at Real Valladolid, but they did it.
VLL
0 ________________ 1
RMA
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Valladolid
Masip; Antoñito, Salisu, Kiko Olivas, Raúl Carnero; San Emeterio, Joaquín, Míchel (Toni Villa, 57'), Alcaraz, San Emeterio (Miguel de la Fuente, 81'); Enes Unal (Óscar Plano, 76') y Sergi Guardiola.
Real Madrid
Courtois; Nacho, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Mendy; Modric (Fede Valverde, 88'), Casemiro, Kroos; Rodrygo (Jovic, 93'), Benzema e Isco (Lucas Vázquez, 73').
Goles
0-1 M.78 Nacho.
Árbitro
De Burgos Bengoetxea (vasco). TA: Joaquín (10') / Varane (36'), Modric (57'), Nacho (76').
Incidencias
Partido correspondiente a la jornada 21 de LaLiga Santander disputado en el Nuevo Zorrilla ante 23.304 espectadores.
Nacho Fernandez’s 78th minute header was enough to split the teams at the Jose Zorilla stadium.
Casemiro had a goal disallowed for offside in the first half, and Sergi Guardiola had one cancelled at the death for the same reason, both fair decisions.
Outside of that there were very few opportunities for either side.
Madrid won by grinding it out, with no style or verve but with their own conviction that a goal would come at some point.
They are three points ahead of Barcelona now, after 21 games. The pressure is on Quique Setien, who is still trying to get his team to play how he wants.
“No ground is easy to go to and all teams are showing that,” said Sergio Ramos.
“They were an opponent who it was going to be hard to play against, they close up well and it was hard to create space.
“In the second we found the space more and finally Nacho was able to get a goal. We leave happy with three points and as leaders.”
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