He real Madrid It won this Saturday by 3-2 at Leganés (18th) at Santiago Bernabéu With more suffering than expected on the 29th day of LaLiga, thanks to a double of the French Kylian Mbappéand put pressure on the leader Barcelona, who will face Girona (13th) on Sunday in Montjuic
The French striker scored as a penalty in 32 the first goal of the whites, but Diego García (34) and Dani Raba (41) turned the scoreboard before the break. At the beginning of the second half, the English Jude Bellingham tied the clash after a shot inside the area and Mbappé (76) made the third party.
The capital team adds 63 points, the same as Barça, which retains the leadership thanks to the goal difference. Carlo Ancelotti’s men open hollow with Atlético de Madrid (57 points), who could only tie one against Espanyol, also this Saturday.
For its part, the ‘cucumber’ team of Borja Jiménez, who needed the three points to escape the descent stalls, aspired to continue being LaLiga’s matagigators after having made the knee to Barcelona and Atlético.
– “Gain” –
“A difficult game. After the break it is always difficult because you have a rhythm in your club, you leave with the national team and it is something else. But we know what we always have to do: win,” Mbappé told Movistar+.
On his double he said that “it is good to score many goals”, but “you have to win titles” in Real Madrid, said the player who has already scored 33 goals with his new shirt in all the competitions played and that he struggles with Barcelona Robert Lewandowski for being the ‘Pichichi’ of LaLiga 2024-2025 (23 of the Polish by 22 of the French).
The merengue team needed a penalty to open the electronic. The referee did not think about it and pointed out the maximum penalty after Turk Arda Güler fell to the ground after being shot down by Óscar García. The visitors strongly protested the decision.
Mbappé wrote from eleven meters with a Panenka style launch to overcome Serbian Marko Dmitrovic, who tried to rectify in the fall.
In the next play, Carlo Ancelotti pupils fell asleep in the Laureles, a relaxation that Garcia took the opportunity to match the game after ending a rejection on his feet.
“In the parties, you have to do it and it is important to do it all together. The football matches are like that, there are no simple matches,” Ancelotti estimated.
Gap
A few minutes later, in another error at the exit of the spherical of Real Madrid, the Leganés recovered the ball in a dangerous zone, which ended with a satin Raba to emboca to pleasure.
As soon as the second part started, Bellingham put the tables in a rocambolesque play in which there were up to three whites from the whites. First, Mbappé with a shot that Dimitrovic took; Then, a defense repelled another from Fran García, who hit the crossbar and, in the end, the British was more alive than the rear to tie.
The Madrid players, aware that the championship is played, threw themselves into the attack and had to be a direct foul the way to beat Dimitrovic. Mbappé placed the ball on the long stick, taking advantage of the barrier to achieve the victory.
In the last section, the Leganés had several occasions, but he lacked a better definition.
Before, Atlético turned from the league by drawing 1-1 in the field of Espanyol. The rojiblanco team went to the changing rooms ahead in the electronic thanks to a goal from the side César Azpilicueta (38), but Javi Puado (71) put a tie that ended up being definitive.
With his eyes on the return of the Copa del Rey against Barcelona on Wednesday -both teams tied four in the first leg -, Simeone dispensed with the start of his Argentine compatriots Julián Álvarez and Rodrigo de Paul, although both players entered the grass later, before the Espanyol.
“The draw was fair, we had no goal chances either team,” said Atlético coach.
