Levante and Real Madrid resolved a fast-paced match in the second half with a three-way tie in which both teams were able to win and which ended with Vezo as the local team’s goalkeeper after Aitor Fernandez was sent off in the 87th minute with all the changes already made and with the Brazilian Vinicius as the main protagonist of the Whites’ comeback with his double and with a great goal in the final minutes that saved a point for his team.
The match began with Bale’s goal, scored after five minutes after a play between Alaba and Benzema, who passed the ball to the Welshman so that he could score at will.
Until the goal, neither of the two teams had proposed a high pace to the game. After the goal, they did not propose it either, Madrid protected by their advantage and Levante without the resources to do so.
Thus, the football was bland, with a lot of midfield and with hardly any arrivals at both goals, since neither gave the sensation of having the resources to surprise the rival defense.
That dynamic of the game was maintained at least until the half hour of the clash. From then on, Real Madrid gained prominence, took control of the ball and prevented Levante from finding options for Morales or De Frutos to come in on the wings.
However, this soccer-control, with Isco, Casemiro and Valverde as men with more presence, was not accompanied by dangerous approaches and the local defense had no problem aborting them, so the score did not move.
When he did, it was thirty seconds after the restart in a combination of almost all the Levante players down the center that Roger resolved with a shot that Courtois touched and meekly entered the Madrid team’s goal. What Levante had not achieved in 45 minutes, it obtained in thirty seconds. One and the other returned to start from scratch, although with different states of mind.
Proof of this was the second local goal in an excellent shot from Campana to the center of De Frutos ten minutes later at a moment in the match in which it seemed that the locals had anesthetized Real Madrid.
After the goal, a triple change in Carlo Ancelotti’s team with Asensio, Rodrygo and Vinicius for Isco, Hazard and Bale, the last two with hardly any presence until then.
In order not to lose, Real Madrid needed to show from that moment on something different from what had been offered until then against Levante, to whom the two goals had given them a lot of confidence and which was different from the final stretch of the first period.
After the halfway point of this period, the game was played very close to Aitor Fernandez’s goal with long possessions of the ball, but little shot and space for Levante to hurt him.
However, the equalizing goal, the work of Vinicius, came, paradoxically in a counterattack, resolved with great speed.
It didn’t take long for the forces to unbalance. On a free kick, Rober Pier finished it off at point-blank range to make it 3-2, but a great goal came shortly after, making it 3-3 by Vinicius, shortly after Cantero sent a ball into the Real Madrid goal post. The next emotion came after Aitor Fernandez’s expulsion by hand outside the area with the five changes made. Ruben Vezo happened to occupy the goal. The marker did not move and this vibrant clash ended with a distribution of points in the Valencian night.
