Real Madrid secured a thrilling 2-1 victory over Valencia at Mestalla, despite playing with 10 men for most of the second half. Modric and Bellingham secured the win in a dramatic fashion.
Luka Modric and Jude Bellingham gave Real Madrid a happy start to 2025 by pulling off a comeback with 10 men at Mestalla, where they defeated Valencia 2-1 on Friday to take the lead in La Liga. The white team overcame the expulsion of Vinícius Júnior in the 79th minute. And in the 85th, Modric equalized the score. “We didn’t think it would be (red) card, we thought it would be yellow, but the team has been able to react to this difficulty,” highlighted coach Carlo Ancelotti.
“As he has reacted to the difficulty of the missed penalty, the disallowed goal (to Kylian Mbappé), how bad we did in the first half”. During the fifth minute of stoppage time, midfielder Bellingham sealed the victory after a recovery in the opponent’s half, concluding with a soft touch. Hugo Duro put the Che side ahead in the 27th minute, after finishing off a rebound from goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois inside the area. The dramatic victory leaves Real Madrid at the top with 43 points, two ahead of Atlético de Madrid, who have one game less. Los merengues distanced themselves from Barcelona, which is third with 38 points in the same number of commitments. This match was pending from the twelfth round. It could not be played according to the schedule due to the floods that left more than 200 dead in the Valencian Community. After a bad first half, in which Courtois was the figure despite the goal he accepted, the actions increased in intensity in the second half. Referee César Soto Grado resorted to video replay to assess an aggression by Vinícius against goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski. After seeing the red card, the Brazilian winger had to be taken off the pitch by his teammate Antonio Rüdiger and personnel who were on the bench when he was going to protest to Soto Grado about the decisio
REAL MADRID VALENCIA LA LIGA LUKA MODRIC JUDE BELLINGHAM
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