Real Madrid has not succeeded in getting at points with Barcelona at the top of La Liga after he had fallen into a 2-1 defeat against Valencia in their MD30 collision in the Santiagouu.
Despite the fact that it is confronted against Arsenal in the first stage of their quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday, Real Madrid Head Coach Carlo Ancelotti called a very strong side. Kylian Mbappe started, and just after 10 minutes he was in action when he won a penalty after he had been pulled in the area by Cesar Tarrega. Vinicius Junior was elected the player to take the spot kick, but his effort was bad and easily saved by Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mhaldashvili.
Real Madrid and Vinicius were made to pay that Miss only a few minutes later when Valencia took a shock. Diego Lopez delivered an excellent corner that perfectly landed on Mouctar Diakhaby's head, who flowed the ball past Fran Gonzalez, who made his first team debut for Los Blancos when Andriy Lunin was not risked by Ancelotti due to a Calf problem.
Valencia gave their lead to the break, but only five minutes in the second period Real Madrid forced an equalizer when the corner of Luka Modric was led in the path of Vinicius, which stuck up close at home to make up for his penalty -Miss.
From that moment on, Real Madrid dominated looking for a winner, but on every occasion they were refused by Strong Valencia defending and Mamaardashvili, who was in inspired form – his salvation to deny Federico Valverde was particularly special. And in the end it was Los Che who stole the victory that Hugo Duro went home in the 95th minute to secure their first Bernabeu victory since 2008.
It is a result that Real Madrid keeps three points behind Barcelona in the title race, but that gap could grow to six if the Catalans beat real betis on Saturday evening. Valencia rises to the 14th with the victory, and they are now seven points free from the drop zone.
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