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Humble Getafe achieved a heavy-caliber surprise by dropping its neighbor and giant guest Real Madrid 1-0 and inflicting its first loss in three months on Sunday in the nineteenth stage of the Spanish Football Championship.
The loss is the first for Real Madrid in various competitions since it fell 1-2 to Espanyol on the third of last October in the eighth stage of the local league. He then played 15 matches, winning 13 of them and drawing twice.
Real Madrid’s tally of 46 points remained in the lead, 8 points ahead of Sevilla, who meet Cadiz on Monday and have another match postponed.
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Real Madrid entered the match as a candidate to beat its neighbor in the capital due to the technical differences between the two teams and the history that has been on its side in recent years, as Getafe has failed to beat it since August 2012. Since that loss, Real Madrid has won 13 out of 13 matches against its opponent. 15 matches between them.
“We stayed off for an extra day,” his Italian coach, Carlo Ancelotti, commented on the loss, adding, “Our team was not the same team that played before Christmas – less commitment and less focus.”
“We did not deserve to lose, but we ended up with a defeat that could be a wake-up call.”
“Saying we are still on vacation is not a criticism, it’s the same thing I said to the players. We take responsibility, because the coach may have been on vacation as well. We are still in the lead, so we are looking forward.”
Real Madrid pressed strongly at the beginning of the match, but received a surprising goal, contrary to the course of the game, when the defender of the Brazilian royal team, Eder Militao, lost the ball inside the area, so the Turkish Enis Onal grabbed it and launched it crawling in the net of Belgian goalkeeper Tibo Courtois (9), raising his score to 6 goals this season.
Real Madrid responded with a shot by Croatian midfielder Luka Modric, which was blocked by goalkeeper David Soria (15), then Modric exchanged the ball with the French Karim Benzema, and the first fired a left ball from the outskirts of the area that hit the crossbar (17).
Real Madrid took possession of the ball by a large percentage without posing a threat to the goal of its humble host.
Belgian winger Eden Hazard and veteran Brazilian left-back Marcelo participated in the beginning of the second half, in an attempt to activate the offensive front, but Real Madrid’s rhythm remained somewhat slow, and the most prominent opportunity for him was the Brazilian Casemiro’s shot on the fly from the outskirts of the area, a Getafe goalkeeper flew to it and thwarted its effect (72), And another for Isco with a header that the goalkeeper also controlled in the last seconds.
Real Madrid has only lost twice away from home this season, compared to 8 wins.
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