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Spain Championship: Real Madrid clears the dust of the "derby" with a hexagon against Levante






Madrid (AFP) - Real Madrid, crowned with the title, shook off the dust of its derby loss against its neighbor and host, Atletico Madrid, by honoring it and benefiting its last-placed guest, Levante, with half a dozen clean goals, including a hat-trick for its Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior, Thursday, at the end of the thirty-sixth stage of the Spanish Championship. The Royal Club decided the outcome of the match in its first half by scoring a quadruple, which was alternately scored by the French Ferland Mendy (13), Karim Benzema (19), the Brazilians Rodrigo (34) and Vinicius (45).


Vinicius strengthened Real Madrid's lead with a double in the second half (68 and 83), achieving the first hat-trick in his career with Real Madrid, raising his tally to 17 goals, in third place on the scorers' list. Vinicius said, "This is my first hat-trick in my career with Real Madrid and after this wonderful season that I present With my colleagues who help me a lot, I am very happy.” He added, “The master (Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti) wanted to replace me, so I asked him to stay in order to score a hat-trick, and I succeeded in that.” He added, “I think this is good to prepare for the final match of the Champions League competition.” .


Real Madrid presented a great match, and despite not needing points, as it clinched the title four stages before the end of the season, it paid most of its main players and achieved a great victory, which strengthened its position in the lead with 84 points, while Levante’s balance froze at 29 points in last place and became the first to be relegated to Second degree.


Real Madrid issued a warning to Liverpool, its competitor for the title of the prestigious continental competition, on May 28 in Paris, and erased its loss to Atletico Madrid 0-1 in the last stage when Ancelotti pushed his squad backed by the German main trio Toni Kroos and the Brazilians Casemiro and Eder Militao. The Croatian Luka Modric, Vinicius, Benzema and the Belgian Thibaut Courtois returned to the royal squad, while Casemiro and his compatriot Eder Militao and Kroos sat on the bench, and Marco Asensio, Dani Carvajal and Dani Ceballos were absent. The area before he shot it with his left to the right of goalkeeper Danny Cardenas (13).


And Benzema strengthened a second goal with a header from close range after a cross pass to Vinicius (19). And just Benzema, the legend of the royal club, Raul Gonzalez, as the second best scorer in the history of Meringue, with 323 goals. It is the 27th goal for Benzema in the League this season, reinforcing the top scorer list with 11 assists. And the 44th in various competitions this season with 14 assists. Rodrigo added the third goal when he penetrated into the area and passed a ball to Modric, who set it up for him in front of the goal, so he followed it up effortlessly, scoring the third goal (34).


Vinicius strengthened the fourth goal after a joint game with Modric, so he entered the area and played it with his left hand inside the goal (45). Benzema, who received a wonderful ball from Modric behind the defense, responded to the gift to Vinicius and passed him a ball on a plate of gold from close range, which he followed into the empty goal (68). Vinicius concluded the festival with the sixth goal, after receiving a ball from substitute Kroos, who penetrated and manipulated the defense and the goalkeeper before he followed it into the goal (83).


Real Sociedad regained its winning streak and revived its hopes of competing for the Europa League card next season, when it beat its guest Cadiz 3-0. (36 years old) by making the first goal scored by the Norwegian Alexander Sorloth (19), and seizing a penalty kick, from which the Belgian Adnan Januzaj scored the second goal (53), in addition to passing it to substitute Porto, after which he got a penalty kick that the latter scored the third goal (90). +8). Real Sociedad, which achieved its tenth victory at home this season, strengthened its position in the sixth place that qualifies for the Conference League competition, with 59 points, two points behind Real Betis, who ranked fifth, qualifying for the European League competition "Europa League".


On the other hand, Cadiz received a painful blow in its quest to avoid relegation, as it fell to the seventeenth place, the last remaining position in the first division, after its balance froze at 35 points, two points behind Granada, the winner of Athletic Bilbao 1-0 on Tuesday at the opening of the stage, with the same difference. Against Real Mallorca, who ranks eighteenth, the last of the places leading to the second division, which was tied negatively with Sevilla on Wednesday.


Villarreal, in turn, maintained its hopes of competing for the Europa League and Conference League cards, by defeating Rayo Vallecano 5-1. Villarreal strengthened its position in seventh place with 56 points, five points behind Real Betis and three points behind Real Sociedad, while Rayo Vallecano's balance froze at 42 points in twelfth place.

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