Real Madrid honored Leganes with a 5-0 win at home to arch-rivals Barcelona, while Sevilla failed to catch up with a 1-1 draw against Valencia in the 11th round of the Primera Liga on Sunday.
Real Madrid have scored four new figures in this match, including Rodrigo celebrating his first official goal with Real at the Bernabeu, as well as finishing the match at home for the first time this season with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, and the registration of Serbian, Luca Jovic, his first goals With the royal team. The final figure was that the five goals came from five different players, something Real have never achieved in a very long time.
French coach Zinedine Zidane refused to describe the match as his team's best of the season and said he was happy with the result but believed it was only an important win.
He added: «We started the game very well, and scored two goals, happy with the result, because scoring five goals without shaking your nets a distinctive result, and we have to feel good about what we have achieved,» explained Zidane: «Maybe we have not achieved five goals in a long time, so some considered "It's our best game this year, but for me it's not."
Asked about his philosophy of pushing young players, he said: "Every member of the team has a specific role. This is not for the future but for the present."
The Royal reduced the difference between him and his rivals Barcelona to 22 (21), waiting for the confrontation «Clasico» between them, which was scheduled last weekend, on Barcelona, before being postponed to December 18 due to violence in Catalonia to protest the imprisonment of nine leaders Separatists between nine and 13 years old for their role in the region's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017.
Real hit hard from the start, scoring two goals in two minutes, after a joint game started by Belgian, Eden Hazar, arrived at the Brazilian Marcelo, and then to the French Karim Benzema, who passed «on the fly» to Rodrigo, lurking inside the region without any control, turned the ball in The net (7) then a pass from Benzema and a shot from the German Toni Kroos (8). The captain Sergio Ramos added the third goal, a penalty awarded by the referee after the blocking of Leganes goalkeeper Juan Soriano, Hazar, carried out by Ramos and repelled by Soriano, but the referee used video assistance technology, to re-kick because of the wrong positioning of Soriano, Ramos did not mistake in his attempt Second (24). The 62nd minute saw Modric take over from Kroos to get a penalty six minutes later, following a block from Unai Postensa inside the area, which Benzema translated into the net (69). The substitute, Serbian striker Luka Jovic, wrapped up the Goals Festival with a header (90 + 1), taking advantage of Lazar's pass.
The four digits
Rodrigo scored his first goal at the Bernabéu.
The five came from five different players.
3 - For the first time clean nets for Real with Courtois at home.
4 - Serbian, Luka Jovic, opened his first goals in an official match for Real.
Real Madrid reduced the difference with Barcelona, to just a point .