European football: Mbappé wins it late for Real Madrid after Bellingham limps off | European club football

Kylian Mbappé stayed calm to roll dwelling a A hundredth-minute penalty and safe for Actual Madrid a 2-1 win over nine-man Rayo Vallecano on Sunday in a spicy La Liga derby. Los Blancos’ victory lower Barcelona’s lead again to at least one level on the high of the desk after the Spanish champions beat Elche on Saturday.

Vinícius Júnior scored early on for Madrid after Jude Bellingham limped off with an obvious hamstring damage. Jorge de Frutos pulled Rayo degree early within the second half, prompting seen anger from the Madrid followers at their crew. Frustration was averted when Mbappé netted from the spot following Pathé Ciss’s pink card on the demise. Rayo additionally had Pep Chavarría despatched off earlier than the ultimate whistle.

Madrid’s interim head coach, Álvaro Arbeloa, and Mbappé had begged followers to assist the crew after Actual’s defeat at Benfica in midweek, however the Santiago Bernabéu crowd was in unforgiving temper. The previous Barcelona winger Ilias Akhomach fired narrowly large early on – the environment would have been additional soured had his effort crept inside Thibaut Courtois’ submit.

Madrid suffered an early setback because the England worldwide Bellingham pulled up holding the again of his thigh, going off in agony. The membership later confirmed the midfielder is prone to be out for as much as a month.

Vinícius put the hosts forward within the fifteenth minute, displaying tidy footwork simply inside the world earlier than firing excessive over Augusto Batalla and into the online. Los Blancos had been in cost however, regardless of taking the lead, their followers weren’t content material and whistled the crew in on the break.

They had been even much less impressed, minutes into the second half, when Rayo pulled degree. Álvaro García nodded a cross down for De Frutos, a former Madrid youth participant, to succeed in and drill dwelling. The guests ought to have taken the lead after an hour when Andrei Ratiu ran by way of on purpose however Courtois made an outstanding save to disclaim him.

Rayo made life tougher for themselves when the midfielder Ciss was despatched off for an unsightly foul on Madrid’s Dani Ceballos. Eduardo Camavinga headed in opposition to a submit as Arbeloa’s facet turned the screw, earlier than 9 minutes of stoppage time had been added on.

With the clock ticking down, Madrid had been awarded a penalty when Nobel Mendy clumsily fouled Brahim Díaz, and La Liga’s high scorer, Mbappé, dispatched it to grab three factors for his facet.

In France Nuno Mendes scored a late winner as Paris Saint-Germain survived the second-half sending-off of Achraf Hakimi to beat Strasbourg 2-1 and reclaim high spot from Lens in Ligue 1. A dramatic recreation in Alsace noticed PSG’s goalkeeper Matvey Safonov save Joaquín Panichelli’s early penalty, earlier than teenager Senny Mayulu gave the guests the lead.

Guéla Doué, elder brother of PSG’s Desiré, levelled for the house facet, however the Portugal left-back Mendes headed within the winner for the reigning French and European champions within the 81st minute.

Luis Enrique’s crew had been decreased to 10 males on 74 minutes as Hakimi was despatched off for a excessive deal with on Panichelli – he was initially proven a yellow card just for the punishment to be upgraded to pink after a VAR test. For Strasbourg, the defeat was their first in 4 matches below Gary O’Neil, who was appointed final month after Liam Rosenior left for Chelsea.

Inter prolonged their lead on the high of Serie A to eight factors with Sunday’s 2-0 win at Cremonese, a match that was marred by away followers practically hitting the hosts’ goalkeeper Emil Audero with a firecracker.

Lautaro Martínez and Piotr Zielinski’s first-half targets had been sufficient for Inter to increase their unbeaten league run to 11 matches and pile stress on their nearest challengers, Milan, who face Bologna on Tuesday.

Audero fell to the turf following the arrival of the firecracker from among the many Inter followers massed behind his purpose. Thankfully a shocked Audero had solely suffered minor accidents to his leg and was in a position to proceed, and the match completed with out additional incident.

Gleison Bremer helped Juventus as much as fourth, the Brazilian worldwide defender scoring twice in a cushty 4-1 win at Parma because the Turin membership continued their revival below Luciano Spalletti.

Como are sixth on 41 factors, 4 behind Juve after Nico Paz wasted a last-gasp penalty in a goalless draw with Atalanta, who sit seventh.

In Germany Serhou Guirassy scored twice within the second half as Borussia Dortmund got here from behind to beat the Bundesliga’s backside membership, Heidenheim, 3-2 on Sunday and transfer six factors behind the leaders, Bayern Munich.