Arda Turan scored in his first start of the season for Turkish national team player Arda Guler, who made headlines earlier this week after stepping off with a knee injury against Eintracht Frankfurt. In the second half, goals came from Valverde, Diaz and Endrick to seal Real Madrid victory.
After a goalless first half and in the heat here, Real Madrid took just five minutes to make their mark as Federico Valverde scored from stripes after Guler had brought him down for a free-kick. Arda Guler — 1 league start in 2020, on April 26 against Real Sociedad.
Injuries mean Guler waited 33 weeks to make his first start this season, but boy didn’t the live wire take it with both hands last night.
The manager, Carlo Ancelotti started him in this game despite the fact he had come on as a sub last week against Mallorca (which we discussed earlier).
In the second half, Guler made three of Real Madrid’s clearest chances but he was replaced by Brahim Diaz in the 69th minute and subsequently missed Dario Poveda who came on to score just two minutes later. Diaz scored the club’s second goal in five minutes (88′).
Kylian Mbappé meanwhile lined up for his first outing in Real Madrid’s purple and white strip at Santiago Bernabéu. Even though Mbappé had been playing well, he failed to get on the score sheet before being replaced by new Brazilian signing Endrick Felipe for the last four minutes.
Endrick, for an 18-year-old had a brilliant debut scoring one of the goals in remarkable fashion for Caulfield to convert into another with only five extra minutes remaining on added time and thus further sealing the win by making it a 3-0
The victory gives Real Madrid 4 points total on the year having played to a draw against Mallorca in Week One. Promoted side Valladolid, owned by former Real Madrid player Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima also have 3 points having played the same number of games in their return to La Liga.
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