Real Madrid wins with a goal by Higuain, Valencia back at the last minute Athletic

Last update 16 November, 2012 by Julio Muñoz

Real Madrid defeated on Saturday by 2-0 to Celta de Vigo (13º), with goals from Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín (11) and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (67 criminal), provisionally placing fourth, five points behind Barcelona, who plays with Deportivo, on the eighth day of the Spanish league.

After an ambitious start to the game, which was quickly rewarded with the opening of the scoring by Higuaín, Real Madrid then raised its foot, showing difficulties in increasing the score and being calm about the result.

Forced to rebuild the defense due to injuries to his full-backs Marcelo, Fabio Coentrao and Álvaro Arbeloa, the coach of Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho, He put the Frenchman Raphael Varane and the Portuguese Pepe as centre-backs, while Sergio Ramos returned to his right-back position and the Ghanaian Michael Essien was placed on the left wing..

Besides, The Portuguese coach associated three attacking midfielders for the first time this season, Luka Modric, Kaká y Mesut Özil.

This attempt had a good result in the first twenty minutes, but Real Madrid was imprecise later in the auction.

When Real Madrid found good chances, thanks to Sergio Ramos (5, 19), It was finally an involuntary action by Higuaín that allowed the white team to open the scoring.

The Argentinian, only on the left side, He attempted a cross that was slightly deflected by a defender and entered the goal (11).

After, Higuaín gave a cross to Cristiano Ronaldo who missed a clear chance with his head. It would not be the only mistake by the Portuguese as he sent a ball to the post before the break and had another clear opportunity with his head in the goal. 62.

But finally, Real Madrid managed to kill the game thanks to a penalty caused by Özil and converted by Cristiano Ronaldo (67), which allows him to lead the scoring classification with nine goals.

“We knew that if Celta had the ball they were going to create problems for us and we had to press high or at most give them little access to the ball.. Our pressure at the start has destroyed their confidence and has not allowed them to play as they usually do.”, said the assistant coach of Real Madrid, Admit Karanka.

For your part, Malaga consolidated its third position by defeating with difficulty (2-1) at home to Valladolid (9º).

The Castilian team took the lead on the scoreboard through the Angolan Manucho Gonçalves (9), but the Andalusian team managed to turn the result around with goals from Francisco Alarcón, better known as Isco (37), and Joaquín Sánchez (88).

Manucho was sent off in the minute 80 and shortly after, in it 83, a penalty against Javier Saviola was missed by Joaquín, who would make himself forgiven by scoring the winning goal in the 88.

“The result of the match was not due to any referee error”, stated the Málaga coach, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini.

Valencia (8º), that I was losing at home 2-1 against Athletic Bilbao (16º), ended up winning by 3-2, thanks to two South American goals in the final part of the match, scored by the Argentine Tino Costa (88) and the Paraguayan Nelson Haedo Valdez (90).

The two goals for Athletic were scored by former Valencian player Aritz Aduriz (18, 30), while the first local had been achieved by Roberto Soldado (26 penalty). The Basque team played with ten men from the minute 67 due to the expulsion of Ander Herrera.