{"id":12132,"date":"2026-11-07T22:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/real-madrid-beat-valencia-to-level-liga-leaders-barca\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:45:46","slug":"real-madrid-beat-valencia-to-level-liga-leaders-barca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/real-madrid-beat-valencia-to-level-liga-leaders-barca\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid beat Valencia to level Liga leaders Barca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kylian Mbappe scored for the seventh match running as Real Madrid pulled provisionally level on points with La Liga leaders Barcelona after a 3-0 win at 10-man Valencia on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reigning champions Barca visit Atletico Madrid, third, on Sunday, aiming to move back clear of the chasing pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jose Mourinho\u2019s Madrid largely dominated at Mestalla stadium as they secured an eighth win in a row across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federico Valverde and Arda Guler\u2019s first half goals put Madrid in the driving seat and Mbappe added a third in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los Blancos were without winger Vinicius Junior, who was serving the final game of a four-match ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madrid have thrived in his absence, putting heavy pressure on Barca, whom they beat in the Camp Nou Clasico on October 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ninth minutes the match stopped for players and fans to pay tribute to Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel, who tragically died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made a smart save to deny Aaron Mayol, who had picked Aurelien Tchouameni\u2019s pocket in a dangerous area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valencia\u2019s Guido Rodriguez had a goal disallowed for offside before Mourinho\u2019s side took control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valverde drilled Madrid ahead from outside the area after Mbappe\u2019s free-kick was blocked by the Valencia wall and fell to the Uruguayan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guler soon doubled the lead, after Jude Bellingham\u2019s cross was deflected kindly into his path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guler had a good chance for the third in early in the second half but Valencia goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski grabbed the ball as the midfielder tried to round him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minutes later Dimitrievski saved well from Mbappe as the French striker ran through and tried to dink the ball over him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bellingham powered his way through the defence and was also denied by the goalkeeper, as was Mbappe following up with an overhead kick, as Madrid tried to find a third to kill off the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually Mbappe produced it, bursting onto a dangerous pass by Guler to dart past Dimitrievski and squeeze home his 13th league goal of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the forward\u2019s 17th goal in 16 games across all competitions. Mbappe has netted in his last seven appearances for Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valencia\u2019s Jose Gaya was dismissed with around 10 minutes remaining for a late sliding foul on Mbappe to further spoil Javier Aguirre\u2019s team\u2019s night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier new Espanyol coach Eder Sarabia\u2019s side were held to a goalless home draw by Deportivo La Coruna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osasuna snatched a late 1-1 draw against Athletic Bilbao, while Racing Santander came from behind to beat Malaga 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/real-madrid-beat-valencia-to-level-liga-leaders-barca\/\">Real Madrid beat Valencia to level Liga leaders Barca<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe scored for the seventh match running as Real Madrid pulled provisionally level on points with La Liga leaders Barcelona after a 3-0 win at 10-man Valencia on Saturday.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}