By Reinaldo Oliveros
10 Feb 2024, 2:48 PM EST
Real Madrid beat Girona 4-0 this Saturday and dealt a blow to the visitor’s hopes in La Liga. Madrid consolidates its position in first place in the table and is five points clear after 24 rounds.
The merengue team had a show at the Santiago Bernabéu with Vinícius Jr. and Jude Bellingham that reached 20 goals in all competitions.
Madrid came into this match with all of its centre-backs missing. Without David Alaba, Eder Militao, Nacho and Rudiger, Coach Ancelotti put Carvajal and Tchouaméni as center backs.
The experiment went perfectly against a disabled Girona that succumbed to the dribbles and attack of Vinícius Jr. and Jude Bellingham.
The meringues’ first goal fell in the 6th minute with a shot from outside the area by the Brazilian winger who had one of the games where everything went in his favor.
This goal was followed by the Madrid attack and in the 35th minute, Vinicíus again made a three-finger pass for the arrival of Bellingham He took out the goalkeeper and scored with his left foot to make it 2-0 in the first half.
A train passed over Girona. Without the ability to generate danger. No defensive responses. With Couto suffering every time Vinícius faced him as much as some central defenders without a fixed mark who were surpassed behind his back.
Vinícius once again made it clear who was the owner of the match. He left Couto with a dry dribble that preceded the low shot that he rejected dwhere a goalkeeper never should, in the center, so that Bellingham, already lame after two sprains of his left ankle, scored the sentence and his double before being substituted.
Rodrygo ended up sealing the match with an individual play and put an end to a goal drought to deliver the final blow to a Girona that could not face the giant.
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