Real Madrid Miss Another Chance To Overtake Barcelona, Play Out 3-3 Draw vs Rayo Vallecano

Rayo Vallecano prevented Real Madrid from taking provisional management of La Liga by holding the European champions’ to a pulsating 3-3 draw on Saturday. Real turned up at their metropolis rivals after a tough fought 3-2 away win at Atalanta within the Champions League in midweek. Kylian Mbappe netted his fiftieth objective within the competitors to open the scoring in Italy solely to return off with a thigh damage which left the French star out of Carlo Ancelotti’s calculations for this Saturday night time away date within the Spanish capital.

Rayo Vallecano, on the again of a win final trip, shocked the visiting giants when Unai Lopez headed in Jorge de Frutos’s pin-perfect cross with the sport solely 4 minutes outdated.

Rayo went for the kill at a raucous Estadio de Vallecas, just for de Frutos’s shot to fly over the bar.

But the house facet solely needed to wait till after the half hour mark to double their lead with one other header, this time from Abdul Mumin.

That sudden scoreline solely lasted three minutes as Fede Valverde pulled one again for Real with an amazing 25-yard strike for his fourth objective of the season.

Just as Rayo may need been considering of going into the break within the lead, Jude Bellingham bagged the leveller within the first minute of first-half stoppage time.

The England worldwide headed Rodrygo’s clip into the underside nook for his sixth straight objective within the league.

Real emerged within the second half intent on finishing their comeback and their climb to the highest of the desk, for twenty-four hours at the least.

Arda Guler had the ball at the back of the web however Real’s Turkish teenager’s effort was disallowed for clear offside.

Two minutes later, Rodrygo put the guests in entrance for the primary time in fashion, the Brazilian winger’s shot flying into the highest nook previous Augusto Batalla.

Ancelotti launched Vinicius Junior, who made his comeback in opposition to Atalanta from damage and in addition bought on the scoresheet in opposition to the Serie A leaders.

The sight of the fearsome ahead didn’t cow Rayo, who seconds later cancelled out Real’s lead when Isi Palazon related with Florian Lejeune’s lengthy vary teaser to fox Thibaut Courtois.

That was how the encounter ended, with Real now on 37 factors, one adrift of Barcelona however with a sport in hand.

Real’s subsequent project is on Wednesday, within the Intercontinental Cup remaining in Qatar in opposition to Mexican facet Pachuca with Mbappe set to be on the aircraft to Doha.

Barcelona could have an opportunity of extending their lead on the high after they host Leganes on Sunday.

Atletico Madrid are three factors adrift of Barcelona having additionally performed a sport much less, and have received 5 in a row in La Liga going into Sunday’s dwelling derby with Getafe.

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