European roundup: nine-man Real Madrid stunned at home by Celta Vigo | European club football

Actual Madrid suffered a shock 2-0 loss and completed with 9 males towards Celta Vigo in La Liga on Sunday after Williot Swedberg scored an audacious purpose along with his heel and a second in stoppage time to go away the hosts 4 factors off leaders Barcelona.

Swedberg cleverly diverted a cross from Bryan Zaragoza previous Thibaut Courtois within the 53rd minute to place Celta forward and had a simple end three minutes into added time, going across the goalkeeper to wrap up the factors.

Actual’s trigger was not helped by the sixty fourth minute dismissal of Fran García, who picked up two yellow playing cards in 60 seconds, however they laid siege to the guests’ purpose for the final 20 minutes as Celta went right into a defensive shell to carry onto their benefit.

The Actual defender Álvaro Carreras was additionally dismissed for 2 cautions, his second coming in stoppage time on the finish of the sport as the house facet’s frustrations boiled over.

It was a second clear sheet in 15 league video games this season for Celta, whose keeper Ionut Radu made a first-half save from Jude Bellingham’s header and stopped a second-half free-kick whipped in by Kylian Mbappé. Actual keep on 36 factors from 16 video games as Celta, who at the moment are tenth, celebrated a primary win on the Santiago Bernabéu in 19 years.

“With the workforce they’ve and their high quality, it’s troublesome to match them, however we learn the sport properly,” stated the Celta striker Borja Iglesias. “We had possession, we performed of their half, we performed a improbable match.”

Xabi Alonso’s stuttering Actual workforce have now received solely one among their final 5 league video games as they await the midweek arrival of Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League.

Earlier on Sunday, Espanyol moved as much as fifth as Roberto Fernandez’s first-half penalty handed them a 1-0 house win over Rayo Vallecano as either side completed with 10 males.

Elche’s Rafa Mir scored twice as they ran out 3-0 house winners over struggling Girona, whereas hosts Valencia and Sevilla remained within the backside half of the desk after a 1-1 draw.

The Napoli striker Rasmus Højlund stole the highlight as his two targets secured a 2-1 house victory towards Juventus, lifting the champions to the highest of Serie A.

Napoli have 31 factors, one forward of Inter in second. Third-placed Milan, who’re three factors off the tempo, go to Torino on Monday. Juventus stay seventh on 23.

Napoli opened the scoring after seven minutes when David Neres burst down the best, shook off Teun Koopmeiners and squared to Højlund, who slid in to steer the ball house. The hosts dominated a lot of the primary half and created the clearer possibilities, with Scott McTominay almost scoring simply earlier than the interval when his header glanced previous the close to put up. Napoli got a fright because the Scot was compelled to go to the touchline a number of instances for remedy, seemingly combating a muscular difficulty, although he managed to play on.

Though the house facet continued to press after the break, it was Juventus who hit again simply earlier than the hour with a counter-attack that discovered Kenan Yildiz contained in the field and he drilled a low effort into the far nook to equalise.

Højlund was not completed, nonetheless, and within the 78th minute he scored a second purpose, heading in from point-blank vary after Weston McKennie diverted a header to the Dane as he tried to clear a cross. Regardless of a late Juventus push, Napoli held agency to say all three factors a lot to the reduction of the house crowd.

Roma endured a 1-0 defeat at Cagliari, with a second-half purple card for Mehmet Celik leaving them susceptible earlier than Gianluca Gaetano’s late winner. The loss leaves Roma fourth on 27 factors.

Roma’s metropolis neighbours, Lazio, held Bologna to a 1-1 draw regardless of taking part in the ultimate 10 minutes with 10 males after Mario Gila’s purple card, whereas Jamie Vardy didn’t discover the online however his Cremonese facet defeated Lecce 2-0.

Borussia Dortmund scored as soon as in every half by means of Julian Brandt and Nico Schlotterbeck to ease previous Hoffenheim 2-0 on Sunday and tighten their maintain on third place within the Bundesliga.

Dortmund, who stretched their unbeaten league run to 6 matches, are third on 28 factors, one behind second-placed RB Leipzig, 6-0 winners towards Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday. The Bundesliga leaders, Bayern Munich, are on 37 factors following their 5-0 demolition of Stuttgart. Hoffenheim, who endured their first defeat after their very own six-game unbeaten run, are fifth on 23.

Dortmund, who face Norway’s Bodø/Glimt within the Champions League on Wednesday with the Ruhr valley membership on observe for a top-eight end within the league part, needed to wait till the forty third minute for his or her first good transfer in a fair first half, with Brandt ending with a tap-in.

As Hoffenheim pushed for an equaliser Dortmund struck once more, with Schlotterbeck’s off-balance shot on the hour. The Dortmund ahead Serhou Guirassy ought to have added one other late on when he was despatched by means of by Yan Couto however his shot got here again off the crossbar.