Monday, October 3, 2022 – 8:34 PM
ABU DHABI, October 3 / WAM / Real Madrid missed out, and striker Karim Benzema failed again against Osasuna, to return to the top of the Spanish Football League to Barcelona after an absence of 833 days.
Real Madrid lost their first two points in the defense of their Spanish league title this season, by drawing 1-1 with their guest Osasuna yesterday, Sunday, in the seventh round of the competition, after 6 consecutive victories for the team; The defending champion fell to second place in the competition table with a goal difference against Barcelona, who ensured the end of the round in the lead for the first time since relinquishing the lead on June 21, 2020.
It is expected that the partnership between the two teams in the lead will be an additional element of excitement if the situation continues like this until their expected match, “El Clasico” two weeks later.
And in a tour marked by many goals (27 goals), before its expected conclusion on Monday, with the match between Rayo Vallecano and Elche, Real Madrid scored only one goal against Osasuna.
Benzema also failed again in penalty kicks against this team, and missed a golden opportunity to win in the 80th minute, to be his third penalty kick against Osasuna.
While Benzema seemed far from his level, which he appeared in last season, the Polish Robert Lewandowski was on a date with a new imprint with Barcelona, where the player scored the team’s 1-0 victory goal over Real Mallorca, to be the sixth consecutive victory for Barcelona in the search for a return to the local title. .
Lewandowski raised his score to 9 goals in the top scorer list this season, stressing that he is the mascot of Barcelona’s victories this season, as he scored about half of the team’s 19 goals in the competition so far, in addition to making two goals.
This is the sixth consecutive match in which Lewandowski has scored against Barcelona’s rivals in the local league, while the player’s goals were absent only in the first team match in the competition, which ended in a goalless draw with Rayo Vallecano.
Barcelona’s defense also received a new certificate of success in the Spanish League this season, after it kept a clean sheet for the fifth match in a row, so that Barcelona remains the best defense team in the competition so far, after it conceded one net in 7 games.
This round confirmed that the race for the title will also be a duo this season, after Real Betis began to decline by defeating Celta Vigo, which reduced its score to 15 points in fourth place, 4 points behind Barcelona and Real Madrid, while Athletic Bilbao continued its attempts to stay in The circle of competition for the lead with a big 4-0 victory over Almeria, who lost for the fourth match in a row.
Ahmed Zahran