Real Madrid crosses the Athletic Bilbao barrier and advances with confident steps

Real Madrid scored first through German Toni Kroos 45 + 2, while in the second half a match by the Basque team Andher Kaba 52. Before that, Karim Benzema scored again for Real 74. Then the Frenchman again signed the third goal 90 + 3.

Bilbao player Raúl García was sent off after receiving a second warning at the beginning of the 13th minute.

With this victory, Zinedine Zidane’s team raised their score to 26 points, which is the same as Real Sociedad, which faces Barcelona on Wednesday.

Real Madrid continued their resurgence in recent times, having been close to leaving the group stage of the European Champions League, managed to win their decisive match against Borussia Moenchengladbach with French double Benzema, before afflicting the Atlético in their first loss this season by beating him. Two clean goals also in Derby, the Spanish capital.
On the contrary, Bilbao are going through a bad time after failing to win their last four league games.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane made the only change to the squad in the derby and went 2-0 against Atlético de Madrid last week, where Uruguayan midfielder Federico Valverde took part in place of the suspended Brazilian Casemiro.

Athletic Bilbao received an early kick by expelling captain Raúl García less than a quarter of an hour later, after receiving a second yellow card after being blocked by German Toni Kroos when his team completed the match with 10 men. It is the fourth time Garcia has been fired in his career and the first since the 2011-2012 season.

The Brazilian Vinicius Junior missed a golden opportunity when the ball hit him in front of the goal, but the Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper, Unai Simón, stood in front of him on the viewpoint (44). However, the real team finished the first half ahead after a clean pass from Vinicius to Kroos, so the latter fired it from the outskirts of the region to the net in stoppage time.

The Basque team managed to equalize through Capa, who received a ball inside the area, and was blocked by Real Belga goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois without picking up the ball and Kaba followed him to the net (52).

La Real responded with a goal from Vinicius, but the referee did not consider it offside (53).

Benzema managed to score the header when he invested in a cross from Danny Carvajal (74). Real Madrid came close to scoring the third goal, but Isco, who arrived midway through the second half, stumbled before shooting towards the goal from close range (88).

Courtois intervened brilliantly to save his own goal from a sure goal when he blocked Mikel Vesga’s attempt before his team launched a quick counterattack that resulted in the third goal through Benzema in injury time. The goal is Benzema’s sixth in the league this season.