Real Madrid defeats Alaves by three and relieves pressure on coach Ancelotti

Marco Asensio, Brazilian Vinicius Junior and French Karim Benzema eased the pressure on their Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti and returned the leaders Real Madrid to the winning streak, by scoring goals in a 3-0 victory over Alaves yesterday at the "Santiago Bernabeu" in the twenty-fifth stage of the Spanish Football League.

After he was dreaming of the treble, Real finds himself threatened with losing everything, after he bid farewell to the cup competition early this month by losing against Athletic Bilbao (zero-1), and then losing on Tuesday the first chapter of his confrontation with Paris Saint-Germain in the final price of the Champions League, and that After a disappointing negative tie in the last stage of the league with Villarreal.

As a result of his negative stumble in the last stage, Real found himself ahead in the lead by only four points from the second Seville, and therefore he was aware that the mistake against Alaves at home would be very costly, but he avoided embarrassment and succeeded in obtaining the three points thanks to three goals he scored in the second half. Asensio, Vinicius Jr. and Benzema.

And the Royal Club raised its score to 57 points in the lead, 7 points behind Seville, who will visit Espanyol on Sunday.

Despite his dependence on Benzema, who returned to him on Tuesday against Saint-Germain after recovering from a thigh injury he suffered during the draw with Elche (2-2) on January 23, Real struggled to overcome a guest obstacle that entered Saturday's meeting and scored 14 defeats, which made him sit in the center Eighteenth, four points behind the safety zone.

In the first half, Real was unable to exploit its field advantage and did not offer much in front of its guest goal and lacked the final touch, to confirm its offensive suffering that was embodied in its past five matches when the best attacker in the league (48 goals before Saturday's victory) was satisfied with an orphan goal scored by Asensio in particular. In the victory over Granada in the stage before the last.

Ancelotti's men entered the two-half break without any actual threat to the goal of a team that conceded 39 times before Saturday's meeting.

Nothing changed at the beginning of the second half in terms of effectiveness, despite a double chance for Vinicius Junior after he manipulated the defense before colliding with the brilliance of goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco, so the ball reached Benzema, who followed it, but fellow defender Florian Lejeune kept it off the goal line (55).

Brazilian Casemiro got another chance for the royal club, but he threw the ball over the crossbar, even though he was facing the goal (59).

Finally, Al-Faraj came with a wonderful arc shot from Asensio, fired from outside the area (63), to relieve the nerves of Ancelotti and the "Santiago Bernabeu" fans with his seventh goal of the season.

Benzema was close to deciding the final victory, but luck hampered him after his attempt bounced off the left post after a pass from Vinicius Junior (76), but the latter compensated for this opportunity and found his way to the net in the 80th minute after a beautiful team game and a pass from Benzema, raising his score to 13 a target.

Benzema added the third goal in the match and strengthened his lead in the scorers' ranking with 18 goals, thanks to a penalty kick taken by Vinicius in the last seconds (1 + 90).

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