An exhibition by Benzema and an intense start of the game allow the players of Solari to maintain their distance in their pursuit of the League.

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The Rubi are still in free fall: 9 losses in the last 10 days.
Real Madrid went to Cornellá with the pressure of not being able to fail again if they did not want to say goodbye definitely to the league after the victories of Atlético against Getafe and Barcelona against Girona in Montilivi. The Solari showed that they still do not miss anything and played the best start of the game probably of the season, because after the first quarter of an hour the Madridistas were already winning 2-0 against Espanyol.

THE SUMMARY IN 30 SECONDS
The summary. Reali de Solari took advantage of his intensity in the initial minutes to set the game back in the best first part of the season, where he signed three goals for the first time. Ramos ended up injured, Varane ejected and Bale came back and scored in a game in which the best was Benzema.

The key. The intensity of those of Solari. Madrid went to Cornellá with a desire not to say goodbye to the League, and it was noticed, although it also relaxed and gave life to Espanyol.

The star. Karim Benzema. The good time of the French allowed him to shine and sign two goals, in addition to leaving great plays of quality.

The first goal of the game would not wait and would reach the four minute meeting, when the high pressure and the numerical superiority of Madrid in the rival field would pay off with a Modric internment, practically with the painted corridor, which would finish inside the area, rejecting his shot Diego López and Benzema taking advantage of the rejection to put Madrid ahead.

After this goal, the Merengue team did not stop rowing and continued looking to expand their advantage by suffocating Rubí’s team in their own field. The presence of Toni Kroos would be noticed, and in a combination with Luka Modric after bouncing a corner kick, the center of the Croatian would find Sergio Ramos the perfect shot, whose header would go directly to the right corner of the goal, an unreachable shot for Diego López.

DATA SHEET
2 – Espanyol: Diego López; Javi López, Marmol, Hermoso, Vila (Rosales, 64 ‘); Baptistao (Piatti, 71 ‘), Roca, Darder (Melendo, 75’), Lopez Moreno; Sergio García and Borja Iglesias.

4 – Real Madrid: Courtois; Carvajal, Ramos (Nacho, 45 ‘), Varane, Reguilón; Casemiro, Kroos, Modric (Marcelo, 75 ‘); Lucas Vázquez, Vinícius (Bale, 63 ‘) and Benzema

Goals: 0-1, Benzema (min 4 ‘). 0-2, Sergio Ramos (min, 15 ‘). 1-2, Leo Baptistao (min 24 ‘). 1-3, Benzema (min 45 ‘). 1-4, Bale (min 64 ‘). 2-4, Rosales (min 81 ‘)

Referee: Gil Manzano, admonished by Espanyol to Roca (6 ‘) and Sergio Garcia (33’); and on the part of Madrid Sergio Ramos (min. 26 ‘), Varane with red card (71 min.) and Nacho (min. 89′)

The guys from Solari saw the match on track after the first fifteen minutes and took the privilege of relaxing, something that took advantage of Espanyol. Leo Baptistao led the first parakeet attack that would end with the Brazilian shooting Courtois’ goal after a corner rejection and putting Madrid in trouble by initiating a few minutes of doubt in the meringues. Sergio Ramostuvo a small scare on his knee after a blow with Sergio García who had to be treated.

In the final minutes, Madrid regained the initial pressure and with it they would extend their advantage before going to the dressing room. Precisely at the edge of the break would come a great collective move of Madrid to which Benzema would put the pin with a definition stuck to the stick to put his second goal of the night, ninth of the season as Madrid’s top scorer this season. The white team, now of coral red, went away winning to the rest having made three goals in the first half for the first time in the campaign.

The second half began with the of the change of Sergio Ramos giving entry to Nacho instead. The captain of Real Madrid had to leave the field of play as a precaution after the entry of the first half which hurt his knee.

As for the game, the initial minutes were more than shared with both occasions for both sets, although perhaps the clearest was the Madrid players, Carvajal mistaken in the last pass when they were in the rival area with numerical superiority.

In one of the best matches of Karim Benzema, Diego Lopez saved with a good save what could have been the fourth goal of the game. A great individual play by the French left Luka Modric in the area to extend the advantage, although he ran into the exmadridista goalkeeper.

The gale of Madrid continued to make itself felt in the second half, and what began as a relaxed second half became a trickle of occasions of danger for those of Solari, taking advantage of Benzema’s good playing time.

It was not a match in which the Brazilian Vinicius shone with its own light, perhaps due to the good role played by the heavyweights of midfield and the Frenchman Benzema. The pearl rioca left his place to the Welshman Gareth Bale who returned after his injury to play minutes of play.

It only took a couple of minutes for the Welshman to score. Again a good play by Benzema Bale finished with a superb cut in the small area to shoot at the bottom of the net. The play was reviewed by a possible lack of Lucas Vázquez to Baptistao that for the referee of Carrusel Deportivo, Iturralde Gonzalez, was nothing, hitting the VAR by giving the goal as good.

Only Diego López saved Espanyol from a major win. A counter Espanyol minutes after a new save from the Galician left Real Madrid with a player less to be ejected with a red card Varane to knock down Piatti when he was only before Courtois.

Again relax Real Madrid, and with the numerical inferiority after the expulsion and the entry of Marcelo, came the second goal of Espanyol. A spectacular Rosales shot that takes advantage of a new dismissal of the Brazilian that caused the revision of the VAR of the non-existent offside that the assistant had indicated.

With the second of Espanyol and being with 10, Madrid suffered in the last minutes of play despite the advantage of two goals that marked the marker. The parakeet could cut it even more but finally could not change the final 2-4. The Solari with this new victory kept the distance of 10 points in their pursuit of Barcelona while Rubi added a new defeat, ninth in the last ten days.