Real Madrid win at Eibar (1-3) with a new goal from Karim Benzema

Real Madrid continue. Zinédine Zidane’s men left the lawn of Eibar with a fifth victory in a row, all competitions (1-3). After a great start, the Merengue had to show resistance against Basques as solid as they were uninhibited. It is once again Karim Benzema, author of a goal and two assists, who was the great architect of success. It allows Real to rise to the height of Atlético Madrid, which has two games less.

A quarter of an hour, and then Real Madrid fell back into its pitfalls until they got out of it, as always for a few days. This is how we could summarize this match, which had ideally started for the Madrilenians. Technically comfortable and collectively inspired, they first gave the Eibar players a real ordeal. Karim Benzema allowed himself to quickly improve a sharp serve from Rodrygo to open the scoring (0-1, 6th) before perfectly serving Luka Modric to confirm the stranglehold (0-2, 13th). Benzema narrowly missed a header later (16th), and we saw the visitors scurrying towards an easy victory.

It was forgetting the self-sacrifice of Eibar, who began to believe in it thanks to his very high pressing. Real Madrid began to doubt, especially after the reduction of the score signed Kike Garcia, with a sublime strike (1-2, 28th). The Basques had plenty of time to capitalize on their goal to gain confidence and create the feat. They finally came close, since Yoshinori Muto played awkwardly (40th) and could have obtained a penalty on a detached arm of Sergio Ramos (81st). Close to the blunder, the emblematic captain of Real made up for it with a very decisive return on Pedro Bigas (90th + 1). On the next action, Lucas Vazquez folded the deal thanks to a one-two with Benzema (1-3, 90th + 2).

Another trompe-l’oeil victory for Real Madrid, which continues to alternate the excellent and the much worse within the same match. For the moment, these two-faced performances are enough to stack the good results and share the lead of La Liga with his neighbor Atlético. It should be remembered, however, that the Merengue are two games ahead of the Colchoneros and that this two-man battle could last a very, very long time.