Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo, Brahim Díaz and Luka Modric scored for Madrid, which moved one point ahead of Girona ahead of the Catalan club’s home game against Alaves on Monday.
Real Madrid lead the Spanish league after beating Villarreal 4- 1 but lost protector David Alaba with an apparent serious knee injury on Sunday.
Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo, Brahim Díaz and Luka Modric scored for Madrid, which moved one point ahead of Girona ahead of the Catalan club’s home game against Alaves on Monday.
Madrid is seven points ahead of third- place Barcelona. The defending champion drew 1- 1 at Valencia on Saturday.
“It’s always good to open a gap to Barcelona, ” Rodrygo said. “ But seven points isn’t a lot, there’s still a lot of league left. We’ve to keep this mindset and keep trying to win every match. ”
Alaba had to be helped off the field at the Santiago Bernabeu before halftime when his left knee buckled while he tried to steal the ball from an opponent near midfield. The Austria protector fell and incontinently called for help while grabbing his knee. He couldn’t put weight on his left leg while being carried off the field in the 34th nanosecond.
“He was sad at halftime, ” Rodrygo said. “ We’ve to stay for the tests but it’s commodity that worries us. ”
It could be the rearmost knee injury for Madrid this season. The club counseled by Carlo Ancelotti is formerly without goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and protector Éder Militão because of serious knee problems.
Bellingham and Rodrygo continued their good scoring runs to give Madrid a 2- 0 first- partial lead. Bellingham scored his league- leading 13th thing with a title off a cross by Modric in the 25th, and Rodrygo added to the lead in the 37th for his fifth thing in his last six games. Bellingham has seven pretensions in his last nine matches with the club.
Díaz scored the third thing after a beautiful run that started near the midfield line in the 64th. He cleared two protectors before chancing the net from inside the area. Modric closed the scoring with another shot from inside the box in the 68th.
José Luis Morales scored in the 54th for Villarreal, which hasn’t won in three straight league matches and has dropped to 14th place.
Villarreal has nine losses in 17 league matches so far, its worst run at this point of a season.
Villarreal had been the last platoon to beat Madrid in the league at the Bernabeu, winning 3- 2 last season. That was Madrid’s only loss in its last 31 league matches as a host. It lost both of its league matches against Villarreal last season.
Díaz started rather of Joselu, while Lucas Vazquez was the right back in place of the injured Dani Carvajal.
Sixth- place Real Sociedad had three pretensions disallowed and doubly hit the woodwork in a 0- 0 home draw against seventh- place Real Betis.
It was the ninth successive match without a loss for Sociedad in all competitions, and the third straight league draw for Manuel Pellegrini’s Betis.
Cadiz’s winless run in the league reached 13 matches after a 1- 1 draw at Las Palmas.
Cadiz, which evened with a thing by Chris Ramos in the 83rd, stayed only one point from the deportation zone. Las Palmas, which was seeking its fourth palm in a row in all competitions, is in ninth place.
Almeria drew 0- 0 with Mallorca at home to remain the only winless platoon after 17 rounds.
The Saudi- possessed club has five draws and 12 losses. It’s eight points behind the first platoon outside the deportation zone.
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