Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior scored goals in a five-minute span in the first half and Real Madrid held on to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 and move level on points with Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league. (More Football News)
Ba👍rcelona remains ahead of Madrid ꦓon the head-to-head tiebreaker
Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior scored goals in a five-minute span in the first half and Real Madrid held on to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 and move level on points with Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league. (More Football News)
Mbappé scored in the 30th minute on Sunday an💎d Vinícius doubled the lead in the 34th to give Madrid the same 57 points as Barcelona, which had its match against Osas🦂una on Saturday postponed after the death of first-team doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia.
There was a moment of silence at Madrid's Sa💦ntiago Bernabeu Stadium in honor of the Barcelona doctor.
Barcelona remains ahead o𝔉f Madrid on the head-to-head tiebreaker.
"It's a n꧃ice feeling because the🅷 goal was to get the three points," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said.
"We could have been up 3-0 in the first half but it ended 2-1. And in the second half we had opportunities t💟o go up 3-1."
Rayo hit back with a goal from Pedro Díaz in first-half stoppage time.🎐 It h🦂asn't won in four straight league matches, with three losses and a draw.
Ancelotti rotated his squad ahead of Wednesday's match at Atletico Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League. 𓆏Madrid won the first match 2-1.
Ancelotti substituted both Mbappé and Rodrygo on Sunday. "I had no problem r𒅌eplacing the forwards," he said.
"We needed to defend toward the end of💦 the match."
Atletico wasted a chance to retake the lea♚gue lead after conceding two late goals in a 2-1 loss at Getafe.
Diego Simeone's team scored first wi🧸th a penalty kick c𒁏onverted by Alexander Sorloth in the 75th, but it couldn't hold on to the lead after Ángel Correa was sent off with a straight red card for a hard foul.
Midfie🐼lder Mauro Arambarri equalised for the hosts in the 88th and💝 scored the winner two minutes into stoppage time.
Correa was initi🦄ally shown a yellow card but video review changed it to a red card. The forward was seen insulting the referee after being sent off and later apologized on social media.
Atletico is one point behind Madrid and Barceไlona.
Antonio Raíl♍lo put the visitors ahead in the 56th and Nico Williams equalised a 𓄧couple of minutes later.
Sixth-plac𒊎ed Real Betis defeated 10-man Las Palmas 1-0 with a 65th-minute goal from Diego Llorente. The visitors played a man down after Dário Essugo was sent off in the 61st.
Sevilla won 1-0 at Real Sociedad thanks to a 46th-minute goal by Chidera Ejuke in a 🦋match between midtable clubs.
Sociedad hasn't won in four matches in all competitions. Sev🍷illa༺ had lost two in a row.