Real Madrid defeated Athletic Bilbao 3-0 to reclaim Barcelona’s La Liga lead on Wednesday, extending it one point to two goals and adding another with Kylian Mbappe’s second goal.
One of their best performances of the season came at Athletic’s San Mames, ending a string of three league draws away from home.
With Eduardo Camavinga nodding in the second half of the first half, Mbappe opened the scoring with his first La Liga assist, Trent Alexander-Arnold.
In the second half, French superstar Mbappe scored his 16th league goal of the year to seal Madrid’s victory.
The team probably had the best game of our lives today, at a challenging location, in a significant moment, and we took it on calmly, Alonso said to the media.
We were aware of the significance of the draw at Girona last weekend, and we are now going to start thinking about the match against Celta (Vigo) on Sunday.
You can’t think too long about things, both in the good and the bad, because the calendar is very demanding. ”
Alexander-Arnold and Camavinga were both substituted in the second half, which was a negative for Los Blancos.
In the same game last winter, Mbappe missed a penalty while still finding his feet at Real Madrid, later calling it his “rock bottom,” but Athletic faced arguably the best player in the world when he returned.
Kylian is in excellent form, he scored two excellent goals today with his movement and Vini (Vinicius Junior) had a strong connection, and the team came out to play right away to win the game, according to Alonso.
Unai Simon made a wise save at his near post before a Vinicius effort was parried by Mbappe in the fourth minute, which almost gave Real Madrid the lead.
In the seventh minute, Madrid took the lead thanks to a brilliant Mbappe goal, which came out of the blocks against eighth-placed Athletic.
With a superb long pass, Mbappe scurried fearlessly into the box and delivered a flawless finish to beat Simon.
On one of Athletic’s rare forays forward, Gorka Guruzeta fired over and forced Thibaut Courtois into a good save at the other end.
Nico Williams and Alex Berenguer had the best of intentions, but Courtois put together a brilliant stop to negate this.
connection between Mbappe and Vini
Madrid was awakened once more, and Vizius, who had a strong connection with Mbappe, threatened twice.
With a low effort from a tight angle, the Brazilian winger attempted to block him off with a low effort from the post.
After Eder Militao sent him through on goal, Vinicius was saved by the goalkeeper who made a superb save to stop him.
At the conclusion of a successful team move, Madrid grabbed their second before the break when Mbappe nodded Alexander-Arnold’s cross across goal for Camavinga to head home from close range.
Early in the second half, Courtois tipped over Athletic’s fierce effort from range.
When Alexander-Arnold pulled up with an apparent muscular injury and was replaced by Raul Asencio, the first of two unpleasant notes came for Madrid.
With his 25th goal in all competitions, Mbappe put the game beyond question with a second long-range effort that struck right at the near post. Simon could have improved his efforts to prevent it, perhaps reversing some of his earlier excellent work.
Alonso suffered another potential injury on a later, potential injury-related outing in the Basque Country against his former teammates when Camavinga was taken off hurt.
Despite the fact that the Brazilian appeared to be having disagreements with the coach over the past few weeks, the coach even received a warm embrace when he took the place of him.
Inigo Lekue, the Athletic defender, said, “They were stronger than us.
No matter what we did, we made an effort to play our game but were unable to. ”
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