Real Madrid, on Wednesday, beat Las Palmas by two goals to nil at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu stadium.<\/p>\n
Midfield maestros, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos, were left out, including Englishman, Jude Bellingham.<\/span><\/p>\n 33-year-old Spanish striker, Joselu, had a good chance begging in the 20th minute but his attempt was saved by Valles.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, he had fired a shot straight into the hands of Valles before his attempt was ruled offside. He could\u2019ve counted himself unlucky.<\/span><\/p>\n Om the edge of added time in the first half , substitute Vazquez made a cross into the midway to Brahim Diaz who had plenty of time before striking past Valles.<\/span><\/p>\n Madrid held to a 1-0 lead half-time.<\/span><\/p>\n Las Palmas got a chance in the 51st minute after a superbly well-played pass to Herrera was kept out by Kepa. Unfortunately, his attempt was ruled offside.<\/span><\/p>\n Three minutes after, Joselu doubled the lead for the home team.<\/span><\/p>\n Brazilian youngster, Rodrygo, burst through the Las Palmas defence from the left-hand side and teased a pass onto Joselu\u2019s head.<\/span><\/p>\n The Spanish forward was able to convert his chance and this time around, it was successful.<\/span><\/p>\n With the win, Madrid stay on the second spot behind leaders Girona, and ahead defending champion FC Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n It was a worry for Madrid, however, as centre back, David Alaba, made way for Lucas Vazquez after developing a discomfort in his leg.<\/span><\/p>\n Alaba was led straight into the tunnel by the medical team.<\/span><\/p>\n Consequently, team captain Nacho, went to pair with Rudiger while Vazquez occupied the right back position.<\/span><\/p>\n The Spanish capital club felt relieved after bouncing back from a disappointing outing at the hands of arch derby rival, Atletico Madrid where they were beaten 3-1.<\/span><\/p>\n Carlo Ancelotti had blamed the team\u2019s defence coordination on the defeat to their derby rivals, while noting that he takes responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid, on Wednesday, beat Las Palmas by two goals to nil at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7125,586,905,6611],"class_list":["post-15632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jude-bellingham","tag-la-liga","tag-las-palmas","tag-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15634,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions\/15634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}