The mighty Santiago Bernabeu, with its more than 80,000 seats, was replaced by the less powerful Estadio Alfredo di Stefano with 6,000 chairs. Usually the home arena for the second team Castilla, today it got more star glow.
Toni Kroos gave the home team the lead pretty quickly. The German got a failed cleansing on the right foot and put the wide side there. Perfect arc on the ball that steams down behind scoreless Marko Dmitrovic in Eibar's goal.
2-0 was a real reel. After a fine deep ball from Benzema, Eden Hazard was able to completely free Sergio Ramos on the offensive. Soon after, Marcelo also had to sign up for the target protocol. Again, a failed cleaning from the visiting Basques ended up perfect for the brass that pulled in and 3-0 was a fact.
Eibar received a reduction but the victory was never threatened and the three points mean that they are approaching Barcelona in the table top. Now there are only two points between the two giants with ten rounds left.