Karim Benzema completed another incredible Real Madrid comeback on Sunday as they fought from two goals down to defeat Sevilla 3-2 in La Liga.<\/p>\n
After trailing Chelsea 3-0 on Tuesday only to secure their place in the Champions League semi-finals, Madrid stunned Sevilla to seal the victory that has surely won them La Liga.<\/span><\/p>\n Defeat would have given fresh hope to the chasing pack, with Sevilla and Barcelona both beginning the day 12 points behind, Barca with two games in hand.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead, goals in the second half from Rodrygo, Nacho Fernandez and Benzema in the 92nd minute mean Madrid extend their advantage to 15 points with six games left to play.<\/span><\/p>\n An Ivan Rakitic free-kick and Erik Lamela\u2019s smart finish had put Sevilla two up at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to understand why we played like that in the first half and to be honest how we played as well as that in the second,\u201d said Carlo Ancelotti.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn the first half we looked tired. In the second, the intensity was spectacular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Benzema\u2019s goal finished Chelsea off on Tuesday after Rodrygo had forced extra-time at the Santiago Bernabeu and those two, along with Vinicius Junior, were crucial again.<\/span><\/p>\n Benzema now has 44 goals in 46 appearances this season and 15 in his last 10.<\/span><\/p>\n Rakitic gave Sevilla the lead in the 25th minute, curling a free-kick into the corner after Luka Modric had brought down Papu Gomez.<\/span><\/p>\n Lamela doubled the advantage four minutes later, slotting after Tecatito drew out Thibaut Courtois and left the net open.<\/span><\/p>\n But a superb Vinicius backheel for Dani Carvajal allowed Rodrygo to pull a goal back in the 50th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n Vinicius thought he had made it 2-2 in the 74th minute, only for the goal to be ruled out, the referee deciding the Brazilian had controlled with his arm and not his chest.<\/span><\/p>\n Madrid though were undeterred as Rakitic headed away a corner, only for Carvajal to drive to the line and pull back for Nacho to finish.<\/span><\/p>\n And then in the 92nd minute, Benzema completed another remarkable revival, collecting Rodrygo\u2019s pass, controlling and firing past three Sevilla defenders on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karim Benzema completed another incredible Real Madrid comeback on Sunday as they fought from two goals down to defeat Sevilla 3-2 in La Liga. After trailing Chelsea 3-0 on Tuesday only to secure their place in the Champions League semi-finals, Madrid stunned Sevilla to seal the victory that has surely won them La Liga. Defeat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4292,4293,586,58,1444],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ivan-rakitic","tag-karim-benzema","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-sevilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165"}],"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=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}