Real Madrid came a little closer this Saturday to their 35th title in the Spanish league. Facing Rayo Vallecano, the undefeated leader for six games relied on his home striker. Karim Benzema had to wait the last ten minutes to finally unlock the opposing goal kept by a certain Luca Zidane.
Thanks to the 19th goal of the season from the center forward of the French team, Real now has a nine-point lead over Sevilla FC, who are playing an explosive derby at home tomorrow (4:15 p.m.) against Betis (3rd at 14 points). Carlo Ancelotti’s players will continue to prepare for the knockout round of the Champions League against PSG (March 9) next Saturday by hosting Real Sociedad. And they intend to be more efficient.
He only had a few hundred meters to complete to play this match. A short distance, but a giant leap coupled with strong symbolism for Luca Zidane Fernández. At 23, the second son of the French football star, is the number 2 goalkeeper of Rayo Vallecano, a club located in Vallecas, one of the districts of the Spanish capital.
A Zidane opposed to Real Madrid, it doesn’t happen every day. Luca played, this Saturday, his 5th match since the start of the season. The holder of the post, the Macedonian Stole Dimitrievski, is experiencing, it is true, a slack this winter a bit like his club, which fell to 12th place in the standings after having held the top spot for a long time. Luca Zidane delayed the deadline for a long time. He started by coming out of a reflex parry of the left arm the attempt of Marco Asensio. He then did it again, twice, against the same striker, before winning ahead of Benzema. Luka Modric then broke his teeth on the Rayo goalkeeper (67th). The entry into play of Falcao (73rd) did not relax Real’s pressing, which finally opened the scoring on a one-two between Benzema and Vinicius Jr. and a missed exit from Luca Zidane. The job that comes in.