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Celta

went to Monte de

Santa

Tecla

, at the foot of the

River Miño

and the border between

Spain

and

Portugal

, to try to warm up the fight for the

League

a bit .

Real Madrid

's visit

to Vigo territory, with the Galicians in no man's land in the competition, was one of the great attractions of the end of the season for the Galicians.

"

Celts against Vikings

", read the celestial motto in the previous one.

90 minutes later, two goals from Benzema from the penalty spot gave the Whites fresh air in their race to lift the great trophy of Spanish football.

After the

0-4

suffered at the

Bernabéu

against

Barcelona

and a national team break that has served to "

reflect

", Madrid needed to win and breathe in Galicia.

Three points to calm the league nerves, to keep Sevilla and Barça to a minimum of

nine points

and to gain inertia ahead of

Stamford Bridge

, the big event of the spring.

There was surprise on the bench, but not in the lineup.

Carlo Ancelotti

stayed in the capital to recover from his positive for Covid-19 and his son

Davide

, also assistant coach, led the expedition, although not having the

UEFA PRO License

he was unable to give instructions on the band.

On the pitch, a conservative eleven, with

Casemiro, Modric and Kroos

in midfield and

Lucas Vázquez

and

Marco Asensio

on the right wing.

Madrid's coaching staff did not want to invent in the midst of battle, they preferred to survive with what they were wearing, with what has taken them, through thick and thin, to the edge of the championship.

But this team, these eleven as a whole, without the youth of

Camavinga

,

Valverde

or

Rodrygo

, are not going through their best moment.

That is why he suffered in Galicia.

Celta

, launched by the

possibility of being the protagonist in the outcome of the season, proposed a two-way match that gave non-stop chances during the first half.

Dituro

and, above all,

Thibaut Courtois

appeared there

.

Iago Aspas

, the logical celestial leader, was about to make it 1-0 after three minutes, but Alaba cleared his shot.

Karim Benzema

, an obvious Madridista guide, was able to score in the eighth, but his header hit the side of the net.

In the 13th, Courtois made his first big save of the afternoon by sending a Denis Suárez

missile to a corner

.

Two minutes later,

Vinicius

replied with a forced shot that Dituro deflected.

A tennis match that was decided in the 17th due to a

minimal error by Nolito

, who knocked down

Militao

inside the area when he was about to shoot.

Benzema, from eleven meters, did not forgive and scored his

23rd goal

it's from the season.

The Frenchman, absent against Barça, was once again decisive.

The 0-1 didn't stop Celta, but Courtois did.

The Belgian made a popcorn that could be 'The stop of the League'.

Lucas gave a bad pass,

Kroos

knocked down Denis on the edge of the area,

Aspas

took distance and shot

Courtois's right corner

so that he flew and cleared the ball when Balaídos was already singing the equalizer.

Zamora's flight from the championship cut off the celestial wings and woke up Madrid, who paused the game, dominated and slept the game long enough not to suffer.

Ancelotti's men conformed, perhaps too much with almost an hour of the match ahead of them in Vigo, and gave the Vigo team time to take off.

Galhardo's disallowed goal

Galhardo

headed a cross from Nolito to Courtois' post and Aspas, who was offside, prevented Alaba from clearing when the ball slipped into the Madrid goal.

The VAR notified

González Fuertes

and he annulled the equalizing goal.

Anger in the Galician parish, that he went to rest wanting revenge.

The rest did not help Madrid, in continuous deep sleep.

Four minutes into the intermission, a quick transition from Celta caught the Merengue defense off guard, split in two, and ended with Nolito finishing off at will in Courtois's small area.

A

defensive disaster

inappropriate for the competitive moment that the Chamartín team was experiencing.

Ancelotti reacted by completely changing his

right wing

, giving entry to

Carvajal and Rodrygo

, more incisive than Asensio.

In his first intervention, the Brazilian striker was brought down by Murillo and González Fuertes awarded the

second penalty of the afternoon

to the despair of the stands.

Benzema placed the ball eleven meters away and shot to the right side of Dituro, who hit his idea and saved his fourth penalty of the season, the statistical leader in the League in this section.

three penalties

Five minutes later and with Madrid not being as offensive as the duel required,

Mendy received a cross, controlled, cut Kevin and ended up on the ground

after colliding with the sky-blue defender.

Rigorous, the referee whistled the

third penalty of the Galician afternoon

, perhaps the most 'penalty' of all.

The VAR, being the interpretation of

González Fuertes

, could not intervene.

Benzema repeated his intentions on the right side of Dituro

and scored his

24th goal of the season

.

A 1-2 and a

hattrick of maximum penalties

that angered Celta, the team and their stands, and that did not do justice to what Madrid offered in Balaídos.

Ancelotti's team leaves Vigo more leader

, surviving one of the most complicated trips of the final stretch of the season and waiting twelve points for

Barcelona-Seville

this Sunday, but with horrible feelings on the way to London.

He had one of his worst games in attack, with a midfield that did not generate football and with an attack, Vinicius included, that was too apathetic.

Benzema, recovered from his injury, was the best outside and inside the area

, a constant that does not seem to be enough to aspire to the

semifinals of the Champions League

and to live the

last days of the League

with relaxation .

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