Real Madrid 3-2 Alaves Match Reports & Highlights: Los Blancos survive a late scare to seal win
Real Madrid 3-2 Alaves Match Reports & Highlights: Los Blancos survive a late scare to seal win. Real Madrid were forced to work hard for their 3-2 victory over Deportivo Alaves on Tuesday evening.
Carlo Ancelotti‘s side roared to a comfortable 3-0 lead initially, and looked set to play out the simplest of victories, only to suffer a late scare when two late Alaves goals left them sweating as they battled through to victory regardless.
Madrid were ahead in just a matter of seconds, when Vinicius Junior beat his man and drove into the penalty area before cutting the ball back into the path of the on rushing Lucas Vazquez, who steered home into the bottom corner.
Kylian Mbappe thought he had doubled Madrid’s advantage after finishing off a glorious team move, but the Frenchman was offside, and the goal chalked off.
On the stroke of half-time, Mbappe finally did get his goal. A smart one-two with Jude Bellingham put him through on goal before the summer arrival beat his opponent before drilling the ball into the back of the net.
Straight after the restart, Rodrygo added a third. The Brazilian picked the ball up deep and charged at his defender, and just as it looked as if he had narrowed the angle too much, Rodrygo fizzed a delightful strike across goal and beyond Antonio Sivera.
Substitute Endrick struck the post with a deflected effort just two minutes after coming on, while Alaves struck the woodwork themselves soon after. Abde Rebbach‘s effort rattled the post and into the hands of the grateful Thibaut Courtois.
It looked like the game had already gone to bed with five minutes to go, Deportivo Alaves came to life. Carlos Protesoni pulled one back with a glorious strike from range and, just two minutes later, Kike Garcia fired beyond Courtois after getting in behind.
Tomas Conechny had the chance to equalise the game in stoppage time, but the winger could only watch as his header deflected wide of Courtois’ goal as a shell-shocked Madrid were forced to cling on to three points which seemed so comfortable just ten minutes earlier.
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