FilGoal | News | Benzema continues to break numbers and leads Real Madrid to a valuable victory at Celta

Real Madrid beat their host Celta Vigo by 3 goals to one at the Pallaidos Stadium on matchday 28 of the Spanish League.

Karim Benzema scored twice for Real Madrid, then Santi Mina narrowed the gap to Celta, before Marco Asensio killed the match in the final seconds with a third goal.

Real Madrid raised their score to 60 points and temporarily advanced to second place, reducing the difference with leader Atlético de Madrid to 3 points, pending the result of the Rojiblancos and Barcelona matches in this round.

Celta de Vigo held on to 34 points in 11th position.

Real Madrid have completed 10 consecutive games undefeated for the first time this season, without losing since losing to Levante in January.

Real Madrid also renewed their victory over Celta de Vigo after defeating them with two clean goals in the first round match at the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium.

Don Ramos

Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos has returned from his call-up after suffering a concussion to the leg of his foot during the last training session before the game.

Consequently, coach Zinedine Zidane once again leaned on a quadruple at the baseline, inserting Casemiro and Fide Valverde together in midfield.

The game was very special for goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who played his 200th game in the Spanish League, the first 111 with Atlético de Madrid, then 89 with neighboring Real Madrid.

On the other hand, the Celta Vigo formation came without surprises, with Argentine Eduardo Codette adopting his favorite 4-1-3-2 method against attacking duo Yago Aspas and Santi Mina.

Errors run

Half witnessed many wrong defensive decisions between the two teams, and the results were dire.

The first error came from Celta goalkeeper Iván Villar, with a wrong start in the fifth minute, so Vinicius snatched the ball and passed it to Benzema, who shot into the body of the defender.

A new threat came from Benzema in the ninth minute with a shot to the bird, but he collided with Hugo Mayo, Celta captain, and took a corner kick.

Benzema ended up wasting, and emptied himself to score in the following minutes, and the start was in the 20th minute when he received a magical pass from Toni Kroos, who put him in the net with a magnificent shot to the sole of the foot.

Benzema scored for the sixth consecutive game and equaled the best streak of his career with Real Madrid, which he achieved in January 2016.

Benzema continued with his energetic maneuvers, sending a cross in the 27th minute, which Vinicius found with a strange chest in front of the almost empty window, to go over the crossbar.

On the other hand, Celta’s mistakes continued, and this time the culprit was Renato Tapia, the midfielder, who lost the ball under great pressure from Kroos, and the ball reached Benzema facing the goal, and the result was a second goal. for the guests.

Benzema raised his score to 17 goals in the Spanish League this season, behind Lionel Messi (21 goals) and Luis Suárez (18 goals).

Benzema has scored a total of 23 goals in various competitions this season, including 8 goals in his last 6 matches.

The most important thing is that Benzema became Real Madrid’s fourth all-time top scorer in Spanish League competitions, just like the legendary Carlos Santillana, with 186 goals, and his next goal will be Alfredo Di Stefano, who scored 216 goals.

The goal is also Real Madrid’s 100th goal at Celta de Vigo’s Pallaidos Stadium in various competitions.

The match seemed to be within reach at this point, but that was not the case for the remaining quarter hour of the game.

The Celta players left their areas and began to threaten the Real Madrid goal, through Mina Ola, who received a great cross from Aspas in the 31st minute, but wasted it with a strange heel.

A new threat came from the home side in the 33rd minute after a cross from Aaron Martin, who was greeted by Price Mendes with his head, but Courtois held the ball firmly.

And five minutes before the end of time, Kroos fouled Aspas, in which he received a yellow card, and even resulted in a goal against his team.

Denis Suárez executed the fine, when Mina headed it to Courtois in the 40th minute.

Mina scored his fourth goal against Real Madrid with 11 games against him.

Take the courage

The second half, in turn, witnessed exciting moments like its predecessor, especially after Celta de Vigo entered more into the atmosphere of the match.

The dangerous Aspas fired a powerful left-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area in the 62nd minute, and Courtois saved him with great ingenuity.

On the other hand, Vinicius was Real Madrid’s most active player, but without much influence in the final and penultimate touch, so he wasted his effort after his great start in the 66th minute with an inaccurate cross that was taken out by the defense.

Zidane came to the bench for the first and last time in the 71st minute and pushed Marco Asensio instead of Kroos, to change the style of play to 4-3-3.

On the other hand, Codette introduced his compatriot Augusto Solari – cousin of former Real Madrid coach Santiago Solari- instead of Nolito in the same minute.

Benzema had a chance to kill the game in the 78th minute after a fatal error by Mexican Néstor Araujo, but the Frenchman’s shot was blocked this time by Evan Villar.

A minute later, Benzema had another opportunity with a direct free kick to the edge of the area, but he fired it frantically over the goal.

Celta de Vigo’s most dangerous chances in the game came in the 83rd minute thanks to a free kick from Aspas, who shot marvelously, but the ball made contact with Casemiro’s head and hit the post instead of going in. In the net.

Celta almost drew in the last minute with substitute Facundo Ferreira, but two consecutive decisive interferences by Nacho and Casemiro in front of him prevented him from scoring.

Before Asensio killed the game with a third goal in the fourth minute of stoppage, after a brilliant cross from Benzema.

Asensio scored for the second consecutive game after his late goal also against Atalanta in the middle of the week.

Benzema raised his assist count in the Spanish League to 7, as did Kroos.