The Portuguese again stepped up to seal the points for his side as 10-men Madrid battled to defeat Sociedad 4-3 in an action packed La Liga encounter.
Real Madrid secured 3 invaluable points at Santiago Bernabeu yesterday as they managed to see off the threat of a spirited Real Sociedad side.
Many Real Madrid fans were expecting http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Iker-Casillas-c16815 to start the game after he was controversially left out of the team’s line up in Los Blancos’ previous league fixture against Malaga. The expectations were however not to be met as Adan again got the nod
ahead of the club captain to start between the sticks.
The match saw a lot of action as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350 provided Real with an early breakthrough. With just 2 minutes on the clock, the French international striker opened the scoring for the home side.
However, Real’s joy was short lived as a moment of madness from their 2nd choice goalkeeper was punished by the referee as Adan brought down Xabi Prieto. The Real Madrid goalkeeper was sent off by the referee with just 6 minutes on the watch and
the whites faced a difficult task at their hands to preserve their lead.
Casillas came on for Callejon and had to face a penalty immediately. Sociedad equalised through Prieto and the pressure was back at the home side.
Khedira then regained Madrid the lead with 10 minutes before the half time but it was Prieto once again who cancelled the German’s strike with 40 minutes on the clock.
It was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 time in the second half as the Portuguese scored a quick fire double with goals in the 68th and 70th minutes to take the match away from the visitors.
Xabi Prieto was not content with his brace in the match and made matters tense for the Real Madrid side as he completed his hat-trick in the 76th minute and gave Sociedad a lifeline.
However, Prieto’s given hope soon evaded the chasers as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dani-c9867 Estrada was shown the second red card of the match and he had to depart for an early shower.
Madrid effectively saw the game out and were really happy to grab all the three points from a match which could have gone either way.
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