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It was a bad-tempered weekend in Spain’s capital, after the Madrid derby was suspended for quarter-hour because of Atletico Madrid’s ultras launching lighters at Actual Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois. Such was the hysteria round it, Barcelona being thumped by Osasuna was nearly forgotten.
The gamers got here again on with the rating at 1-0 to Actual Madrid, however within the 94th minute of stoppage time, Angel Correa beat the offside entice, then Courtois to degree issues up, leaving Los Blancos three factors off Barcelona, and Atletico 5. Los Blancos have been livid, and after Diego Simeone and Koke Resurreccion went to the followers to try to calm them down, they famous that the followers throwing issues shouldn’t be allowed again in.
Courtois celebrated Eder Militao’s aim with a steely grin on the Atletico ultras, who had been singing ‘Courtois, die’ at their former participant not too lengthy earlier than. All the identical, Koke and Simeone referred to as out the Belgian, saying he may have been smarter than to impress the followers.
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It’ll probably lead to a partial stadium closure for Atletico, and renewed pressure between the 2 groups. Osasuna destroyed a rotated Barcelona 4-2 on the Saturday night time, however the Madrid derby end result suited them, regardless of dropping their 100% document. As well as, it took up the headlines whereas Barcelona introduced €91m losses on the yr. Amusingly, they stated it the losses have been purely right down to the non-payment of their gross sales of Barca Imaginative and prescient to shareholders, an operation the identical board carried out.
They’ve signed Wojciech Szczesny on a free one-year deal, a month after he retired, which is not going to assist their funds, however will give them a strong and skilled possibility in aim.
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Therefore it is smart they’ve contacted Palmeiras about 18-year-old defender Vitor Reis. He’s set to be the following Brazilian expertise race, with O Verdao already conscious of curiosity from Arsenal, and Liverpool and Chelsea following shut behind too. He has a €100m launch clause although, which means it could possibly be a troublesome negotiation, whichever membership tries to signal him.
Giovani Lo Celso has changed into the second coming below Manuel Pellegrini at Actual Betis, scoring 5 objectives in 4 and a 3rd video games, a price solely bettered by ex-Newcastle United and Leicester ahead Ayoze Perez. The headline fixture is the Seville derby, with 38-year-old Jesus Navas to play his last version earlier than his retirement in December.
Ayoze is only one behind Robert Lewandowski within the scoring charts and his Villarreal face Actual Madrid on the weekend, with Kylian Mbappe set to be again to health. Carlo Ancelotti must be on his recreation, with murmurs of discontent together with his choices from above trickling down and into the media. All the time an ominous signal on the Santiago Bernabeu.
