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It is 1 of the astir celebrated Spanish clubs successful the world, if not the astir famous.
But for the archetypal clip successful its history, according to sports information companies Opta Sports and Gracenote, Real Madrid fielded nary Spanish players successful its starting enactment up for a LaLiga lucifer arsenic Carlo Ancelotti opted for a Belgian, 2 Brazilians, an Austrian, 2 Germans, 3 Frenchmen, a Croat and a Uruguayan against Villarreal connected Saturday.
Despite the planetary endowment connected display, however, Los Blancos succumbed to a 2-1 decision against Villarreal astatine the Estadio de la Cerámica, and spurned a accidental to spell apical of LaLiga.
It is conscionable the 2nd league decision of the play for Real Madrid and an important triumph for the Yellow Submarines which draws them level connected points with fourth-place Atlético Madrid successful the table.
The archetypal fractional ended scoreless, though Villarreal came adjacent to scoring successful the 5th infinitesimal erstwhile Francis Coquelin deed the woodwork from the halfway of the box.
It didn’t instrumentality agelong aft fractional time, however, for the Yellow Submarines to instrumentality the pb done Yeremy Pino’s extremity successful the 47th minute.
Karim Benzema equalized soon afterwards, threading a punishment into the right-hand country of the goal, aft the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) confirmed a Villarreal handball.
But conscionable 3 minutes later, Villarreal retook the pb with a punishment of its ain pursuing different handball successful the box.
Gerard Moreno made nary mistake and converted from the spot arsenic Villarreal held connected for the win.
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