Player Ratings: Real Madrid 1-2 Levante
Real Madrid’s terrible season continued on Saturday evening after the Whites suffered another defeat, this time at the hands of Levante who beat Los Blancos 2-1 at the Alfredo Di Stefano.
Real Madrid went down to 10-men after just nine minutes after Militao brought down Leon. Despite being a man down, Real Madrid still managed to take the lead with Marco Asensio scoring after a delightful pass from Toni Kroos. After a long period of sustained pressure, Jose Luis Morales equalised for Levante just before half-time.
Things didn’t get much better for Real Madrid in the second-half with Vinicius giving away a penalty shortly after coming on. Roger Marti stepped up to take the penalty but Courtois managed to pull off a great save to keep the score level.
Real Madrid eventually conceded a second goal, with Roger making amends for his earlier penalty miss. Real Madrid couldn’t find a way back into the game losing another three points in the race for the LaLiga title. These are our player ratings:
Starting XI:
Thibaut Courtois: 9/10
Real Madrid’s best player. Thibaut made countless saves including one from the penalty spot. Real Madrid have the Belgian to thank for keeping the score respectable.
Alvaro Odriozola: 5/10
With Carvajal, Vazquez and Nacho all missing, Odriozola started for the first time in LaLiga this season. His performance will have done him no favours, with the right-back partially at fault for both goals conceded.
Raphael Varane: 5/10
Led the defence in Ramos’ absence. The Frenchman was slow to cover for Militao which ended up costing the Brazilian. Average performance from Rapha.
Eder Militao: 2/10
Ferland Mendy: 6/10
Toni Kroos: 8/10
Real Madrid’s best player alongside Thibaut Courtois. Played a sensational pass to assist Asensio for Real Madrid’s only goal of the game. Unfortunate to be on the losing side.
Casemiro: 7/10
With Militao sent off and no centre-back on the bench, Casemiro played the majority of the game alongside Varane in defence. The Brazilian put in a decent shift despite playing out of position.
Luka Modric: 6/10
Luka Modric has been incredible this season but today he was far from his best. The Croatian had to play a lot deeper with Casemiro not in midfield. A difficult evening for Luka.
Marco Asensio: 7/10
Karim Benzema: 5/10
Eden Hazard: 6/10
Substitutions:
Vinicius: 5/10 – Came on to replace Eden Hazard and barely made any positive impact on the game. In fact, he made life even more difficult for Real Madrid conceding a penalty minutes after coming on.
Mariano: 5/10 – Came on to replace Benzema with minutes left.
Arribas: 5/10 – Came on to replace Asensio late on.
