Real Madrid won 1-0 against Sevilla on matchday 26 in La Liga on Sunday evening. In their own Santiago Bernabeu, the Royal team was stuck at a 0-0 draw for eighty minutes, until Luka Modric produced yet another flash of class.
The Santiago Bernabeu stadium welcomed a surprise guest before the start of the match. New UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria kicked off.
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The presence of the 27-year-old German did not immediately ensure a fiery match. Real may have been crying out for a penalty foul, but when the Frenchman Loïc Badé had Antonio Rüdiger in a stranglehold in the penalty area, just like in cage fighting, the Spanish referee Diaz de Mera did not give in.
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The one who felt comfortable was Vinicius Junior. The Brazilian played football like a free bird, fooled with Oliver Torres and had already scored 1-0 for Lucas Vazquez in the tenth minute. With a measured pass, Vinicius put the entire Seville defense to the wind, after which Vazquez shot past Orjan Nyland in three times. However, the VAR disallowed the goal due to a mistake by Nacho Fernandez in a previous phase.
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After the break, the Andalusians also showed that they could play football. During a lightning-fast counter, Lucas Ocampos reached Isaac Romero with a cross on the outside of the foot, who scored with a tap on goal. However, Andrey Lunin was on his toes and in the end managed to score a foot reflex.
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The Royal looked for a goal throughout the game, but did not find one, partly due to appropriate interventions from ex-Real player Sergio Ramos. Until ten minutes before the end, when Luka Modric got the ball on the half moon. The experienced Croatian midfielder curled the ball wonderfully with a velvet touch into the far corner. 1-0: a lead that Los Blancos never gave away. Adnan Januzaj came on as a substitute for the visitors at the end, but he too could not turn the tide.
In the standings of the Spanish top division, Real now has an eight-point lead over first pursuer Barcelona. Season revelation Girona, which currently follows on nine points, will receive a visit from Madrid from Rayo Vallecano on Monday evening (9 p.m.). Sevilla is fifteenth, six points above the relegation zone.