Vinicius and Mbappé refine for the derby in Real Madrid’s victory against Rayo | Soccer | Sports

An afternoon that pointed promising ended up blurred, with the final beep of the refused referee among the whistles of Bernabéu to Real Madrid. Ancelotti’s team had dispatched another half function. After a sharp start, he let himself be carried away, while Rayo Vallecano, stubborn and driven by the wisdom of Iñigo Pérez, was standing despite being 2-0 and ended the match pushing the rival against Lunin. It seemed another afternoon of calculations, in which Madrid estimated that it reached it without the need to appear until the end, that club currency. He endured the victory, although with fright. And that he had just seen how just 14 kilometers south of there, in Getafe, and his advantage in the league.

The Real also played with the view turned to the Metropolitan, where he has to go on Wednesday for the return of the eighths of the Champions League, but he had just opened the opportunity to advance them in the table. In addition, he allowed them to put that little pressure to match points. The double invitation shot them at the beginning. Mbappé seemed revived after the downturn of the tooth, and Vinicius also raised the flight with respect to the first leg against Atlético, with appetite for theft and to go look for Ratiu, perhaps the best ray footballer. The Brazilian opened his afternoon with a robbery and an arrival at the bottom line from which he took a back pass that found no one. Also very soon he mixed with Mbappé, who left the ball to another center to the penalty spot, where Rodrygo did not refine his header.

Between the return of Bellingham and the presence of Modric, Madrid advanced with more structure, with more ideas and variety of records. The team is ordered around English, which balances everything, and Modric adds the spicy of changing the step, whether the speed or area of ​​the field to punish. The Croatian also lives more loose with the Tchouameni company, again very solid in the cut, and very clean in the pass. The Frenchman has been installed on a step above that beginning of the course in which his apparent indolence fired the whistles of the Bernabéu. He has already tune in the highest frequency in Madrid, also forward.

The ray, despite presenting itself very diminished by its bulky collection of important casualties, did not give up: energy to seek robbery and no detour to launch into the opposite goal, this time saved by Lunin, which gave rest to Courtois. Vinicius flicked a flicker when he went down to receive, Ratiu recovered and tried lunin from afar. Ukraine cleared and Gumbau had a second chance.

But the determining imbalance was provided by the dance couple of the Romanian side of Rayo, which has several intense evenings in their album. Vinicius, who had already thrown the stick, ran to Mbappé with the outside. The French cut Lejeune in the area and succeeded in the network.

He had left behind his little bump driven by the Brazilian, who stirred full of revolutions. After launching the Frenchman, Vinicius won his triggered afternoon. He dodged again in the Ratiu area, so frustrating in other appointments, but he found Lejeune and backed away the band. However, it was not over. There he turned again to step on the area again, where he met again with Ratiu. He failed with a couple of bicycles and marked.

But neither did the ray, always intense, always looking forward even if he was pushed back. He took advantage of the last loophole of the first half to cut distance and notify Madrid that the afternoon was not closed. He moved quickly on the front and Pedro Díaz hooked a shot that threw inside after giving in the crossbar.

Madrid was giving time with the ball, perhaps confident that Backing opened space to run and finish closing the day. And he ran. But neither Mbappé nor Vinicius won the goal, while the ray threw coal to the boiler, with Trejo, Óscar Valentín, Sergi Guardiola and Unai López. Ancelotti maneuvered with Valverde, Camavinga and Brahim, but the time had passed and the ray pressed. Madrid endured, unlike Atlético, and brings together Wednesday’s crude appointment in the Metropolitan with the memory of what it can do until it is allowed to be disconnected. And also, despite the final blur, somewhat more re -reached to the league.