Real Madrid surrendered 1-2 to Espanyol in the matchday 8 duel of the Spanish League or La Liga 2021/22, Sunday (3/10/2021). For Los Blancos, this defeat was their first defeat of the season.
Espanyol took a two-goal lead through Raul de Tomas (17') and Aleix Vidal (60'). Madrid fought back, but could only pull one back through Karim Benzema (71'). Here are the highlights of the Espanyol vs Real Madrid match highlights which aired on the video in full.
SPAIN (4-1-4-1): Diego Lopez; Oscar Gil (82' Didac Vila), Sergi Gomez, Leandro Cabrera, Adria Pedrosa; Keidi Bare; Aleix Vidal (65' Lei Wu), Oscar Melendo (58' Manu Morlanes), Sergi Darder, Adrian Embarba (65' Nico Ribaudo); Raul de Thomas.
REAL MADRID (4-3-3): Thibaut Courtois; Lucas Vazquez, Eder Militao, David Alaba, Nacho; Luka Modric, Eduardo Camavinga (46' Rodrygo), Toni Kroos; Federico Valverde, Karim Benzema, Vinícius Junior (72' Eden Hazard).
2021/22 has completed the eighth jornada, closed with Granada's 1-0 win over Sevilla, Monday (4/10/2021) early morning WIB.
Meanwhile, a surprise occurred on Sunday (3/10/2021) night WIB when Espanyol had an extraordinary success defeating the leader of the standings, Real Madrid with a score of 2-1.
Two Espanyol goals, each created by Raul de Tomas and Aleix Vidal, were only able to reply once by Karim Benzema.
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