With a goal from Casemiro and without James Rodríguez, Real Madrid beat Espanyol 1-0 in LaLiga.
28 Jun 2020 17:15
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He Real Madrid came out with their reinforced leadership of the 32nd matchday of the Spanish League by winning 1 to 0 on the ground of bottom club Espanyol, thus taking advantage of Barcelona’s stumbling on Saturday, which had tied 2-2 against Celta on Saturday.
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Before this weekend, the White team was first tied on points with its great Catalan rival, which it now exceeds by two points, when there are six days left until the end of the championship.
The Brazilian Casemiro (minute 45) overtook the team from the capital in its displacement to Catalonia, taking advantage of a pass from the death that his French partner Karim Benzema had given him with a heel.
The white team kept the margin in the second half, but suffered a lot in the last minutes, in which Espanyol brushed the tie.
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In 86, the Colombian Bernardo Espinosa was about to reach a dangerous center and at 90 + 4 An attempt by Argentine Jonathan Calleri could have ended in a goal against Marcelo, but finally the marker did not move again.
He Real Madrid have won all five games they have played in LaLiga since the resumption of the tournament in the middle of the month, which has made him go from being two points behind the leader Barça now beat him in two units and depend on himself to be champion.
Espanyol, last on the table, announced on Saturday the dismissal of his coach Abelardo Fernández and his replacement by Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete, who will have the difficult mission of seeking permanence of the ‘parakeets’, which are ten points from the salvation zone.
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