This Wednesday, the Real Madrid received and beat Elche by 4-0, for the 21st round of the Spanish Championship. Marco Asensio opened the scoring early in the game, Karim Benzema scored twice from the penalty spot in the first half and Luka Modric closed the account with a great goal in the second half.
With the victory, the meringues are in the vice-leadership, reaching 48 points and are eight behind the leader Barcelona. Elche, on the other hand, has another complicated setback and remains at the bottom of La Liga, with only nine points.
Real Madrid’s next match is against Osasuna, away from home, on Saturday, at 5 pm (BrasÃlia time). While Elche travels back home to receive Espanyol on Sunday at 10 am. Both duels are valid for the 22nd round of La Liga.
The match started as expected: Real Madrid’s dominance and superiority. At eight minutes, Marco Asensio opened the scoring and completed the meringues’ good moment in the first half. Before the break, there was still time for Benzema to extend the home team’s advantage in two penalty kicks, at 31 and 46.
Even with the result practically decided in the second stage, Real Madrid continued to put pressure on Elche, so much so that they ended up with 24 finalizations in the game against six of the opponent. With the team’s high pace, Luka Modric still managed to leave his goal in the 35th minute of the final stage and closed the account of the night.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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