Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
Real Madrid continued his brilliant start in the Spanish League “La Liga”, and succeeded in returning from Espanyol with three points, to achieve the “full mark” after three rounds “9 points”, to top the competition, equally with Real Betis, although the goal difference in favor of Real, who started He scored in the 12th minute, through his Brazilian winger, Vinicius Junior, after a magical pass from Frenchman Aurelian Schwamini.
However, Real did not appear as strong as it was in its first two matches, and Espanyol managed to score the equalizer two minutes before the end of the first half, through striker Joselo, to start the second half strongly, driven by the support of nearly forty thousand spectators.
Real Madrid went through many difficult periods, and Italian Carlo Ancelotti had to make early changes before the 60th minute, with Rodrygo and Camavinga landing, then Ceballos and Carvajal, to activate the offensive side and secure the defensive side.
The match continued with a sparring between the two teams, one attack here and another there, and the Belgian Thibaut Courtois saved his goal from more than one chance, as did Benjamin Laconte, the Espanyol goalkeeper.
Although the performance of the French Karim Benzema, the Real Madrid captain and top scorer, was lackluster in most of the match, but he woke up and showed the true face, and announced himself in the last 5 minutes of the match, and practiced his hobby of scoring decisive goals in critical times, and he was the “savior” of the team from The equalizer and was able to score the winning goal 2/-1 in the 88th minute, from a magical pass by Brazilian Rodrygo, and the match referee calculated 8 minutes of time instead of wasted, which extended to more than ten minutes, and Karim managed again to add the safety goal and confirm the victory 3-1 A direct free kick from outside the penalty area, in the goal that was guarded at that time by defender Leonardo Cabrera, who stood guard, after the expulsion of the Frenchman Benjamin Lecomte, the Espanyol goalkeeper, for obstructing the Real player Ceballos on the borders of the area, and after his team exhausted all the changes.
And Radio Monte Carlo Sport reported that this difficult match is a wake-up call for Real, who was not at his usual level, before facing Real Betis, his first competitor at the top of the “La Liga”, less than a week later, and ten days before his first match in the group stage of the Champions League. “Champions League”, as it is a guest of Celtic Glasgow, Scotland.
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