Real Madrid tied with its neighbor, Atletico Madrid, in an exciting game, positive draw in the final moments of the match.
Marcos Llorente overthrew Real Madrid's ambitions to stay at the top after scoring a fatal goal in the final moments of the match.
Llorente's goal came
in the 93rd minute from a perfect header, ending the match in a 1-1 draw in the
match that was held between the two teams in the 23rd round of the Spanish
League at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
Real Madrid suffered a
shock before the match and during the warm-up, with the injury of the team’s
star, Vinicius Junior, and he was withdrawn from the team’s lineup, with Brahim
Diaz participating in his place.
Real Madrid started
the derby enthusiastically amid a decline from Atletico Madrid, and the
Merengues had their first threat on Jan Oblak's goal after 3 minutes from a
left-wing shot from Brahim Diaz.
Atletico responded
quickly with a powerful shot from former Real Madrid player Alvaro Morata in
the 8th minute, but it was blocked by young goalkeeper Lunin.
The annoying Diaz was
able to exploit a mistake in Atletico Madrid's defense to score the leading goal
in the 22nd minute with a wonderful ball he scored with his left foot.
Atletico almost scored
from a cross ball that Witsel met with a header that goalkeeper Lunin
brilliantly blocked and turned into a corner. From the same corner, Griezmann
almost equalized with a header, but it passed near the post.
At the beginning of
the second half, Savic equalized with a wonderful header by Atletico, but it
was ruled offside by VAR, meaning Saul was offside.
The brilliant Diaz
almost doubled the score in the 70th minute after a wonderful pass through the
defense, dodging them before shooting, but it went wide of the post.
Minutes passed before
Real Madrid retreated to the defense to secure the result, so Simeone's men
rushed to attack, and Marcos Llorente was able to score the equalizer in the
last moments with a perfect header.
For his part, Real
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti refused to blame his players after the draw,
stressing that his team played a very good match.
Ancelotti said in the
press conference: “We have a
strong squad and we played this game really well. We have casualties, everyone
contributes, and I'm happy. We remain in the lead, and on Saturday we have
the opportunity to strike again”.
Ancelotti flirted with
his player Diaz after his great brilliance today and his replacement for Vini
and said: "Vini tried to
play, he was not comfortable, I think that Brahim allowed us not change
that defensive system."
Ancelotti refused to
comment about referees and told the press:” "I don't know the reasons, but
it was like that, now there is no need to go back, we have to look
forward."
Real Madrid is
preparing for a strong confrontation at the top of La Liga by facing runner-up
Girona next Saturday, but the curse of injuries continues to haunt the team.
The Italian coach
said:” "Camavinga, I don't know, I think it was a blow to his knee. We've
tried Rüdiger and we have to try to recover him for next Saturday."
Diego Simeone
expressed his happiness about the results and said: “This draw helps us to
continue adding to the League. The point doesn't make any sense to me; the team
looked for it at the end because they could have given themselves up but they
looked for it and got a well-deserved draw."