22 Blowin Valencia! – Sports.fr

The winning streak in a competitive match Real Madrid stopped at 22 games. European champion bowed Sunday on behalf of the 17th day of Liga on the lawn of a tough team of Valencia (2-1). Madrid had yet opened the scoring through Ronaldo, but Barragan and Ottamendi made the fold after resting …

This time there will be more material for discussion around the absolute record of the Real consecutive wins Madrid! Defeated Tuesday in a friendly in Dubai by AC Milan Filippo Inzaghi (4-2), the Spanish giant hoped to continue his incredible series of official game in consecutive wins in his first Liga match of the season on the lawn Valencia, he missed! Certainly, Carlo Ancelotti expected to be manhandled by training occupying 4th place before the holidays this season and renowned for its defensive solidity (second defense of Liga), but then to imagine losing there has a step that few dared go before the meeting.

All the Real Madrid believed to make things easy by opening the scoring quickly on a penalty converted by Ronaldo (his 26th goal in La Liga) after a hand Negredo in the surface (0-1, 14). But behind the Merengue have not been able to take shelter of a return of their rivals. First because they did not convert the few opportunities that are presented to them, namely that shot in the small Ronaldo net (39th), a tempered against Bale who was slow to serve Benzema (54th) A Ramos head close to the pole (79) and a parade of Alves, then backed off the line by Ottamendi (85th) on a head of Isco (85th); then because the European champion fell on a Valencia team that constantly harassed, showing a desire which this Real-fed singularly lacking victories Sunday at Mestalla.

Especially after the break, the timing by Nuno men’s back in the game thanks to Barragan, whose deflected shot by Pepe did the fly (1-1, 52 ‘) and then to move to control the game through Ottamendi which on a corner, got the better of the head on Ramos (2-1, 65th). Therefore, the Real began a siege of goal, too late and too clumsily to rivals by a highly motivated audience in a trance at the Mestalla final whistle. After twelve wins in a row in La Liga, Real fell, which had not happened to him since September 13, and a loss against Atletico at the Bernabeu (1-2), a team of Atletico to be precisely the next opponent of Benzema and co partners as early as Wednesday for a highly anticipated finale of the eighth leg of the King’s Cup in Vicente Calderon.

Meanwhile, the Barça could be the biggest beneficiary the third defeat of the season Real in La Liga, since if the Catalans win this Sunday night on the lawn of Real Sociedad, they will seize control of the Championship with two points ahead of the Merengue, who have a match less (against Sevilla on February 4) and Atletico.