by With Karim Benzema and Vinicius Junior at long last contained, Real Madrid saw its five-match series of wins reach a conclusion with a 0-0 draw against Villarreal at home in the Spanish association on Saturday.
It was the initial time this season Madrid was held scoreless subsequent to outscoring adversaries 22-8 in its first seven matches in quite a while. Its 21 objectives in six association games was its best imprint since 1987-88.
Benzema and Vinicius Junior had been conveying Madrid’s assault up until this point, with no less than one of them scoring in five of the initial seven matches. Benzema drives the association’s scoring diagrams with eight objectives, trailed by Vinicius Junior with five.
The draw gave Madrid a noteworthy lead over Sevilla, which prior Saturday crushed Espanyol 2-0 at home. Sevilla has a game close by. Reigning champ Atletico Madrid dropped to third place after a staggering 1-0 misfortune at then last-set Alaves.Villarreal, which finished its winless streak in the past round in the wake of opening with seven straight attracts all contests, remained in tenth spot.
The guests had the absolute best scoring chances at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois making two or three great recoveries.
Madrid, unbeaten in 25 continuous association matches, battled to discover the objective all through the match.
“It’s somewhat disappointing to draw at home, yet we confronted a decent group, a Champions League group,” Courtois said. “We didn’t have many clear possibilities. They would be wise to ones. It was essential to keep a clean sheet.”Luis Suarez and Antoine Griezmann were held again as Atletico botched an opportunity to recapture the lead in its visit to Alaves.
Victor Laguardia scored with a header off a corner four minutes into the match to give Alaves its first marks of the period and end Atletico’s unbeaten run. The reigning champs hadn’t lost in seven matches in all rivalries this season.
Diego Simeone’s group has won just one of its last four matches in all rivalries, with the main objectives during that run coming from Suarez late in the 2-1 fight against eminent loss succeed at Getafe on Tuesday.
Suarez couldn’t come through on Saturday, and Griezmann kept on frustrating in his re-visitation of Atletico following a two-year spell with Barcelona. The France forward is yet to score in eight games with Atletico this season.
Simeone couldn’t depend on Portugal forward Joao Felix due to a two-game suspension for disregarding an arbitrator.
“Alaves played very well protectively and merited the triumph,” Simeone said. “It’s ordinary to go through troublesome minutes during the season and that is likely happening to us at the present time.”
The home triumph held Alaves back from approaching its most exceedingly awful at any point start to the association after six straight misfortunes in 2017-18. The success likewise got the group off the lower part of the association.
Alaves hadn’t beaten Atletico in the association since 2003, with eight misfortunes and four attracts that range.
