Asensio stunner helps Real overcome slump
Asensio celebrates after scoring a stunner opposite Las Palmas as Real win 3-0. PHOTO: AFP
MADRID: Real Madrid quietened predicament speak after back-to-back defeats as Marco Asensio combined to his collection of consternation strikes in a 3-0 feat over Las Palmas during a Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday.
Victory cuts third-placed Real’s necessity on Barcelona during a tip of La Liga behind to 8 points.
However, it was another off night for Madrid’s strikers as Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema were hold scoreless as Casemiro, Isco and 21-year-old Asensio supposing a torpedo touch.
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“They are a initial ones that aren’t happy,” pronounced Real trainer Zinedine Zidane of Ronaldo and Benzema’s idea droughts. “The critical thing is a work that they do and a chances we create. Today Isco, Asensio and Casemiro scored and shortly Cristiano and Karim will. We need to sojourn calm.”
Benzema has been fiercely criticised for his purpose as Real mislaid to promoted Girona final weekend and during Tottenham Hotspur in a Champions League on Wednesday.
And a turn of displeasure with a Frenchman was in justification as he was jeered by a home true inside a initial 5 mins when he unsuccessful to container past Raul Lizoain after being played purify by on idea by Ronaldo.
Both Ronaldo and Benzema have usually one La Liga idea any to their name so distant this deteriorate and it was a World Player of a Year who had Real’s subsequent 3 efforts as he bloody into a side-netting, twisted a shot usually far-reaching and afterwards placed a header from tighten operation too tighten to Lizoain.
“We know that Cristiano is happier when he scores,” combined Zidane. “We are all assured that [at a finish of a season] he is a one that will make a difference.”
Madrid had to wait until 4 mins before half-time to mangle a deadlock when Casemiro grabbed Real’s initial headed idea of a deteriorate from a corner.
A fifth true joining better given he took assign leaves Las Palmas manager and former Valencia trainer Pako Ayestaran’s pursuit already in doubt with a two-week general mangle to come.
The visitors had a chastisement scream early in a second-half, though on-loan Atletico Madrid winger Vitolo went to belligerent too simply notwithstanding a slight lift of his shirt by Casemiro.
A engagement would have ruled Casemiro out of a Madrid derby opposite Atletico in dual weeks’ time and he was fast transposed after Asensio cumulative a 3 points in overwhelming fashion.
Asensio has done a robe of concealment in fantastic conform in his initial 18 months during Madrid and pounced on a lax round 30 yards from idea to purloin a shot that rose all a approach on a arena into a tip corner.
Ronaldo dismissed inches over twice more, but, while his fitness remained out in front of goal, he did yield an interesting cranky from that Isco slotted home during a behind post for Madrid’s third.
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