Athletic Bilbao Real Madrid

Real Madrid hope to revive their La Liga title chase as they travel to eighth placed Athletic Club on Sunday for a top tier showdown.

The biggest issue for Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti in this match is the continued absence of midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni who is missing for another few weeks with a calf injury. First Athletic play on the counter through Inaki Williams and win a corner but it comes to nothing. It's a dicey one for sure, and Berchiche will need to be careful, but there's probably not quite enough in that for VAR to overturn the call. 39th min: Athletic begin to ramp up the pressure in the attacking half, and win their fourth corner of the match. The referee only gives a yellow and VAR doesn't give it a look, but he'll certainly want to reign that kind of play in moving forward. The first is blocked but the second is on frame, and Unai Simon makes a great save! Athletic are in the clear ascendancy now, and Real Madrid are hanging on by a thread. The ball drops to him with nobody in the same zip code, and somehow he misses the target completely! On a corner, it's cleared but only to Yuri Berchiche who rips on frame from the top of the penalty area. The hosts have the ball in the back of the net, but it's disallowed! Gorka Guruzeta had a good scoring streak earlier in the season, but even things for him have dried up, and while he looked decent off the bench in this match, it wasn't enough to break Madrid hearts. Real Madrid keep pace with Barcelona at the top of the La Liga table after the Blaugrana managed a drab 1-0 win over Girona earlier in the day.

Courtois, Militao, Rüdiger, Nacho, Mendy, Camavinga, Ceballos, Valverde, Asensio, Vinicius Jr., Benzema. as.com Publicado a las: 22/01/202319:53CET.

5 4 Benzema may have had the World Cup injury setback but he is back to get his groove on as he and the team target more silverware. One they'd rather have not had to, but it was a win that must surely have helped in terms of confidence after their previous 1-3 defeat to Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup final. and the city of Bilbao an utter joy. There's little surprise who leads the way when it comes to the net filling for Madrid. The 'mixing it up' saw Valverde pop a gentle cross to the back post and as the ball fell from Asensio's stretched header, almost behind the Frenchman, he swivelled and struck. A quick switch out wide to Asensio, into Benzema and shot! Penalty shout from Asensio on the back of the last corner. He stepped into the space between his markers, and then rearranged his body to allow for a gloriously controlled volley to be possible. But as that last break just showed, they have to be careful. Valverde getting on the ball again and letting fly from distance.

Furthermore, Madrid need to win. Barcelona are already three points ahead in the table and the race for the 2022-2023 La Liga title is expected to be a really ...

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Real Madrid will be hoping to get back to winning in La Liga when they travel to San Mames on Sunday evening to take on Athletic Bilbao.

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