Actual Madrid survived a late scare as objectives by Lucas Vazquez, Kylian Mbappé and Rodrygo gave them a 3-2 dwelling win over Alavés in LaLiga on Tuesday.
Carlos Benavidez and Kike Garcia scored within the 88th and 89th minutes for Alavés, however Madrid held on to win a match that they had principally dominated.
Madrid are second within the LaLiga standings on 17 factors, one behind leaders Barcelona, who’ve a recreation in hand and host second from backside Getafe on Wednesday.
The hosts opened the scoring somewhat over a minute after kickoff when Vinicius Junior took a protracted Federico Valverde cross in his stride and ran up the left channel earlier than establishing full-back Vazquez who fired dwelling from shut vary.
The champions produced a commanding efficiency after a bumpy begin to the season, with Vinicius, Mbappé, who scored in his fifth-straight recreation, and Bellingham a continuing menace to their rivals.
Mbappé fired into the again of the online within the twenty second minute, however his aim was dominated out for being offside.
Madrid saved dominating the motion all through the primary half and prolonged their lead within the fortieth minute when Mbappé performed a neat one-two with Bellingham earlier than reducing inside and slotting a tidy end to the proper of the goalkeeper.
Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect heading for a cushty win when Rodrygo scored their third three minutes after the break, firing a low shot below the goalkeeper’s legs to complete off a fast counter-attack.
Each Benavidez and Garcia capitalised on some poor defending to get Alavés again within the contest, however their comeback got here too late to stop Madrid taking all three factors.
“It is a disgrace that, with the efficiency that we had been placing all through the match it needed to end the way in which that it did,” captain Vazquez informed Actual Madrid TV. “We had been proud of the win as a result of we performed an amazing recreation till the 88th minute, when two lapses in focus led to 2 objectives and we needed to undergo a bit greater than we must always have.
“We did not deserve this ending, with the sport we had performed, however let’s look on the brilliant aspect: we did lots of issues proper.”