Real Madrid keep Barcelona waiting for La Liga by beating Mallorca

Defending champions Real Madrid travel from down to bushed Mallorca and support La Liga rubric defence alive.

Jacobo Ramon scored heavy into stoppage clip arsenic Real Madrid rallied to bushed Mallorca 2-1 and hold Barcelona’s rubric celebration.

Madrid needed the triumph connected Wednesday to support Barcelona from clinching its 28th league rubric without winning different match. The Catalan nine remains 4 points up and tin inactive assistance the trophy with a triumph astatine metropolis rival Espanyol connected Thursday.

Mallorca took the pb with a extremity by Martin Valjent successful the 11th infinitesimal and stayed up until Kylian Mbappe bushed a mates of defenders to equalise successful the 68th.

Ramon netted the go-ahead extremity from wrong the country 5 minutes into wounded time, preventing Barcelona from winning the title, for now.

Real Madrid’s Jacobo Ramon scores his side’s 2nd extremity [Susana Vera/Reuters]

Mbappe is inactive successful the contention to beryllium the league’s starring scorer, arriving for Wednesday’s lucifer with 27 goals, 2 much than Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski. Mbappe had a hat-trick successful the nonaccomplishment to Barcelona connected Sunday.

Barcelona virtually secured the rubric by coming from down to bushed Madrid 4-3 successful Barcelona in the past “Clasico” of the season connected Sunday. Madrid mislaid each 4 matches against Barcelona this season, being outscored 16-7. It was the archetypal clip Barcelona won each “Clasico” successful a play that had astatine slightest 3 matches betwixt the rivals.

Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti received a mostly indifferent absorption from the fans astatine the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium connected Wednesday aft taking implicit the Brazil job.

The Italian was announced arsenic Brazil’s caller manager connected Monday, and immoderate Madrid fans criticised the manager for negotiating with the five-time champions with the La Liga play inactive nether way.

There were nary important jeers oregon cheers erstwhile Ancelotti’s sanction was announced by the loudspeakers astatine the Bernabeu earlier the match, with astir fans applauding and saying his sanction on with the announcer, pursuing the contented astatine the stadium.

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