Real Madrid beat Celta to have Liga top spot
Real Madrid jumped to the very best of La Liga on Saturday with a 2-0 home victory above in-form Celta Vigo.
Lucas Vazquez headed found in a good cross from Marco Asensio at the considerably post found in the sixth minute, barely one minute after Real centre again Nacho had cleared a go by Celta striker Iago Aspas off the collection.
He returned the favour found in the 53rd minute, laying a diagonal ball in to the path of Asensio with the viewing defence in disarray. Asensio drove his shot in to the roof of the web.
"We explained before the overall game that if we counter-attacked we're able to do damage and that's how it proved," said Asensio.
Real rebounded from a pull with promoted Elche about Wednesday to go one point clear at the top of the table, but second-place Atletico Madrid have played 3 fewer games and will regain the lead if they face Alaves about Sunday.
"After the draw in Elche we wished to express aggression," said Vazquez.
With Real Madrid in charge, coach Zinedine Zidane became popular Asensio, Luka Modric, Dani Carvajal, Toni Kroos and, right by the end, captain Karim Benzema and induced Eden Hazard and Fede Valverde, who are returning from injuries, and youngsters Martin Odegaard and Vinicius Junior.
"Today we played well from the initial minute before end," said Zidane. "You will find a lot of the growing season left and we must keep going."
It had been Celta's first reduction since Eduardo Coudet took above as supervisor on November 12, closing a go of seven games unbeaten that had lifted them from the relegation area to eighth found in the table.
"We generated hardly any for the volume of possession we'd," said Coudet.
Previously, Sevilla, who could have climbed to third, were fortunate to escape with a 1-1 draw in neighbours Betis.
Suso opened the scoring for Sevilla immediately after 48 minutes.
Sergio Canales replied with a penalty after 53 mins.
When the house team won another place kick in the 75th minute, Nabil Fekir took it but Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou preserved. French international Fekir hasn't managed a goal or an help out with three months.
Sevilla dropped to fifth behind Villarreal, who beat Levante 2-1.
