Real Madrid draws 4-4 with Villarreal: 31 games without defeat

From our correspondent Filippo Maria Ricci

May 19, 2024 (changed at 9.24pm) – MADRID

Carlo Ancelotti is rewriting the history of Real Madrid, and this afternoon he took another club record. Los Blancos drew 4-4 in daring fashion in Vila-real, reaching 94 points after having already won a matchday in this Liga and reaching 31 games without defeat in the league, a new record for the club.

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The previous record was 30 matches set between 97-98, 3 games, and 98-99, 27, by the team coached by the Dutch Beenhakker. Ancelotti’s Madrid have lost only once in La Liga this year, on September 24th at the Metropolitano against Atletico, since then they have had 24 wins and 7 draws. And the positive streak seems destined to get longer: the Spanish championship record belongs to Barcelona who in the 17-18 season with Ernesto Valverde reached 36 games without defeat.

INCREDIBLE ARDA GULER

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In the penultimate test before the Champions League final Ancelotti made a large turnover: Lunin in goal, defense with Lucas Vazquez, Militao, Rudiger and Fran Garcia, Valverde, Ceballos and Modric in the middle, Brahim Diaz, Joselu and Arda Guler in front. And the young Turk continues to amaze: two more goals for the 19-year-old, the first and the fourth. For Arda Guler there are 6 in the Liga, in 9 shots: 6 on target, one on the crossbar, two off. All in 377 minutes of play: a goal every 63 minutes. The other Madrid goals were scored by Joselu, 17 this season, 10 in La Liga, and Lucas Vazquez.

SORLOTH PICHICHI

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For Alexander Sorloth’s Villarreal poker: the Norwegian took the lead in the match with one match left to go, overtaking the Ukrainian Dovbyk of Girona (a goal in the 3-1 against Valencia): we are 23 to 21 with Bellingham, on the bench , at 19 and Lewandowski, who scored in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Rayo Vallecano, at 18. Sorloth scored the 1-2 in the first half, Madrid went to half-time at 4-1 but in the 56th minute Haaland of the poor had already set the result at 4-4 with Militao unable to even get close to the elusive opponent and replaced in the 61st minute by Nacho. The starting shirt in the Champions League final seems very far away for the Brazilian.