The Real Madrid went out in the derbi to be followed with his good series after his victories in Seville and against the Borussia Mönchengladbach. The whites did with the control of the party very soon and had to the Athletic of Madrid dominated, as if the colchoneros did not go the leaders of LaLiga. Of this form, the merengues gave them his first big fright with a zurdazo of Karim Benzema that hit in the stick after an impressive stopped of Jan Oblak.
After the grandísima opportunity generated by the French, the madridistas followed with his work with a very high pressure that incomodó to the ones of the Cholo Simeone. After some isolated arrival of the venues, arrived the prize of the goal after a big kickoff of corner of Toni Kroos. Casemiro, that took advantage of of the slip of his marker, cabeceó with ease the balloon at the end of the meshes of the Madrilenian to put the deserved 1-0 in the marker.
The whites commanded in the first time and played almost to pleasure in front of an Atleti that did not give the level in the first 45 minutes. Nevertheless, to the ones of Zinedine Zidane cost them arrive with clarity and from the alone goal upset to put it of Oblak in a pair of arrivals of Benzema and of Luka Modric that finished in at all. The leaders of LaLiga finished something better the first-half and went to the rest with the feeling that going up a course, there were options of empatar.
Simeone Decided to move to the team in the intermediate and took out to Thomas Lemar, Ángel Correa and Renan Lodi. The changes seated him something better to the rojiblancos, that began to feel more comfortable and recognizable. In fact, Lemar could equalise the crash in the 55 after a big centre from the right of Marcos Llorente. The French forgave the life to the merengues in the second stick with a shot that was hit to the stick of the goal of Thibaut Courtois.
The Madrid sentenced in the best moment of the Athletic
But when better was the Atleti, inexplicably the Cholo decided to remove of the field to the talentoso Joao Félix, very annoying in his exit of the field, to give entrance to Saúl Ñíguez. The replacement practically coincided in the time with the sentence of the Real Madrid. A pair of minutes afterwards, Dani Carvajal stuck a tremenda volley from out of the area that hit in the stick and rebounded in Oblak of unexpected form for colarse in put it for misfortune of the colchoneros and for joy madridista.
But the rojiblancos did not surrender and in the 80 was about to recortar distances after a powerful head butt of Saúl that stopped Courtois. The Belgian saved to the merengues with a big unemployed and avoided that the whites suffered in the last minutes. The ones of 'Zizou' had the 3-0 in the boots of Lucas Vázquez, but Oblak saved and at the end the meeting finish 'dying' with the 2-0. With this triungo, the ones of Concha Spine recortan three points to the athletic and are still in the fight by LaLiga