Real Madrid had to swallow a bitter pill. There was no miracle on Wednesday evening. The losses from London could not be made up, and the rematch of the 1/4 final with Arsenal ended in a 1: 2 defeat. In the semi -finals, “Gunners” checked in. The Madrid residents remained in the national yard.
Real Madrid beat his head against the wall. Loss of points
In the face of the Saturday victory of FC Barcelona with Celta Vigo (4: 3), the players of Carlo Ancelotti had to win with Athletik Bilbao to maintain a four -point loss in the La Liga table. The task was not as simple. A team led by Ernesto Valverde In December he beat Real on his own stadium (2: 1), and in addition during the week he was promoted to the semi -final of the Europa League.
Basków in the league on Santiago Bernabeu has not won since 2005 – then Asier del Horno and Andoni Iraola went into the net – but they still hoped that they would be able to fight for three points. Especially because of the fact that Atletico Madrid lost its meeting on Saturday. So there was a chance to connect to the fight for the podium.
The first half did not impress. There were no clear situations after which Piurters Courtois and Simon could check. At the beginning of the second half of Rodrygo's meeting, he would almost defeat his rivals goalkeeper. He fell into the penalty area, passed the defenders and tried to shoot towards the distal post. He was wrong. Real advantage with every minute was more and more clear. Jude Bellingham In two minutes he could score two goals. First, Simon stopped him, and then his rehearsal passed the right goal post of the Basque goalkeeper. In the 80th minute Vinicius hit the net, but earlier the judge saw an burnt Endrick. When it seemed that the match would end with a goalless draw in the added time of the game Fede Valverde defeated Simon with an atomic shot.
“Fede” – Mateusz Borek summed up in such a laconic way. Uruguayan's blow will certainly be a candle goal, and perhaps the whole season.
La Liga does not slow down. The next matches are already in the coming week. Real Madrid on April 23 will play with Getfee. On the same day, Athletic Bilbao will face Las Palmas.
- ReAl Madrid 1: 0 Athletic Bilbao (0: 0)
- Goals: Federico Valverde '90+3
- Real Madrid: Courtois (GK) – Valverde, Asentcio (84 'Vazquez), Rudiger, Camaving – Modrić (K) (78' Diaz), Tchouameni, Ceballos (58 'Endrick) – Bellingham – Rodrygo (78' Guler), Vinicius, Vinicius,
- coach: Carlo Ancelotti
- Athletic Bilbao: Unai Simon (GK) (K) – Gorosabel, Paredes, Unai Nunez, Boiro (87 'Vivian) – Prados, Mikel Vesga – Djalo (62' Inaki Williams), Unai Gomez (73 'Lekue), Alex Berenger (62' Sancet) – Guruzeta (62 'Sannadi)
- coach: Ernesto Valverde
- Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid
- Judges: Munuera
- Yellow cards: Raul Asentcio – Unai Nunez, Benat Prados