Beat Osasuna 2-0, Real Madrid Approached Barcelona

Fede Valverde scored Real Madrid's first goal (Twitter @realmadrid)

JAKARTA - Madrid beat host Osasuna with a score of 2-0 to approach Barcelona at the top of the standings, in the 22nd jornada match of the Spanish League which took place at the El Sadar Stadium, Pamplona, ​​Sunday morning WIB.

With three points won, Real is currently in second place with 51 points, five points behind Barcelona, ​​which will only play its 22nd game on Monday morning WIB. While Osasuna is stuck in tenth position with a collection of 30 points, as quoted from Antara.

After a hot and high-tension first-half match but not producing a goal, Real was only able to break into Osasuna's goal in the 52nd minute through Vinicius Junior's kick. Unfortunately, the goal was disallowed because the Brazilian was ruled to have been in an offside position.

Osasuna is also slowly starting to dare to come out and attack. Moi Gomez hit the crossbar with a shot in the 62nd minute and Jon Moncayola fired wide three minutes later.

With Karim Benzema still out injured, Vinicius was left to shoulder the brunt, and in the 78th minute, he ran down the right of the Osasuna defense to bait defenders, then teed up the relatively unmarked Federico Valverde to slot the ball in. host goal.

Real then grabbed their second goal in the 78th minute through substitute Marco Asensio, who was turned in by an easy cross from fellow substitute Alvaro Rodriguez.

In the match that was played earlier, Mallorca returned to winning ways after beating Villarreal with a score of 4-2 in the match that was played at the Iberostar Stadium, Palma de Mallorca.

The victory brought Mallorca up to eighth position with 31 points. Meanwhile, Villarreal had to drop to ninth place with 31 points, due to losing their head-to-head record with Mallorca.

Mallorca took the lead in the 20th minute with a left-foot shot from Zimbabwe's Tino Kadewere. Villarreal's efforts to catch up were even more difficult after their midfielder Manuel Trigueros received a red card from the referee.

Despite being left behind by the number of players, Villarreal was able to equalize in the 43rd minute, thanks to a counterattack which was completed with a goal from Jose Luis Morales. But before halftime, in the 45th minute, Daniel Rodriguez' header from Pablo Maffeo's cross led to a goal that restored Mallorca's lead.

Villarreal was still able to equalize to 2-2 in the 50th minute. Yeremi Pino's bait was maximized by Samuel Chukwueze's right-footed shot which resulted in a goal.

But that was the last goal for Villarreal in this match. Rodriguez scored his second goal in the 56th minute with a header from Lee Kang In's corner, before Villarreal conceded for the fourth time in the 63rd minute thanks to Kosovo's Vedat Muriqi.