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Those who saw the Saturday evening performance of the Spanish championship witnessed unusual events. The duel, which had already been hot in the past, did not disappoint this time either, the entire match took place in a tense atmosphere, and the home fans mostly booed Vinícius Júnior, who had already received a racist insult in the Mestalla Stadium.

Valencia, ninth in the table, took the lead in the 27th minute, after Vinícius was uncertain in front of his own baseline, lost the ball, the pass fell to Fran Pérez, who broke the shot, hitting Duro’s head instead of the goal, from which he bounced into the goal with great luck. the ball, 1–0. Three minutes later, Carvajal made an amazingly irresponsible pass home, Lunin’s pass was short, Yaremchuk pounced on him and easily slotted into the net past the dislocated goalkeeper, 2–0.

In the last moments of the first half, Carvajal made up for his mistake to some extent, ran on the right wing and then accurately centered in front of Vinícius, who had nothing to do but slap the ball into the empty goal, which he did. 2–1. Turning to the last quarter of an hour of the increasingly tense match, substitute Brahim Díaz’s pass found Vinícus’ head in the back of the net, who nodded into the net, scoring his second goal and equalizing the score. 2–2. In the continuation, the defender of Valencia, Mouctar Diakhaby, suffered a terrible injury, he screamed in pain after Tchouaméni fell on his knee, the air froze in the Mestalla.

Among other things, due to Diakhaby’s injury, referee Gil Manzano signaled a seven-minute extra time at the end of regular time, in the second minute of which Duro fell under Nacho’s grip in the penalty area, the referee awarded a penalty. However, the video referee intervened, Duró was not kicked, but slipped on the wet ground, so the game could continue. Due to the intermission, an additional 1-2 minutes of extra time would definitely have been justified,

but the Spanish referee waved off the match at the moment of Brahim’s pass, from which Bellingham nodded in the winning goal two seconds later.

Huge chaos reigned on the field, as a result of the extremely rarely – or perhaps never – seen scene, the Real Madrid players attacked the referee, who blew the match completely unjustifiably at the moment of the hand-in. After the triple whistle, Gil Manzano showed Bellingham a red card, while Vinícus was caught by his teammates to avoid an even bigger problem. This is how the meeting ended in scandal, which is sure to happen will have an afterlife.

Real Madrid leads the league by seven points ahead of second-placed Girona and nine points ahead of third-placed Barcelona, but both of their rivals will play on Sunday.

La Liga, round 27

Seville–Real Sociedad 3–2 (2–1)

Rayo Vallecano–Cádiz 1–1 (0–0)

Getafe–Las Palmas 3–3 (3–1)

Valencia–Real Madrid 2–2 (2–1)

Celta Vigo-Almeria 1-0 (0-0)

played on Sunday:

Villarreal–Granada 14.00

Atlético Madrid–Real Betis 16.15

Real Mallorca – Girona 18.30

Athletic Bilbao–FC Barcelona 21.00

played on Monday: