After back-to-back defeats towards Barcelona and AC Milan, Real Madrid have returned to successful methods on Saturday – doing so in emphatic trend. Carlo Ancelotti’s facet breezed to victory towards Osasuna, ultimately working out 4-0 winners on the Santiago Bernabeu.
It a blended first half for Real Madrid, who opened the scoring after 34 minutes courtesy of Vinicius Junior. However, that they had misplaced Rodrygo Goes and Eder Militao to damage earlier than this level – and within the case of the latter, there are severe fears that he has ruptured his ACL for the second successive season.
Five minutes earlier than half time, Jude Bellingham would lastly rating his first objective of the season after an exquisite help from younger defender Raul Asencio, who had changed Militao following his damage.
Into the second half, and two targets inside 10 minutes allowed Vinicius to finish his second hat-trick of the season. He did splendidly effectively to gather an Andriy Lunin cross for his brace, earlier than being arrange by Brahim Diaz for his third of the afternoon.
The consequence takes Real Madrid again to inside six factors of Barcelona, having now performed the identical variety of matches. However, the league leaders can re-establish the nine-point buffer with a win at Real Sociedad on Sunday night.