The meringues fell at Son Moix in a duel where they only got one shot on target, missed another penalty and missed a shot.
Real Madrid drew a defeat to Mallorca that leaves them running out of options to fight LaLiga against Barcelona, which already leads the meringues in the standings by 8 points.
The meringues appeared in Son Moix with the losses of Benzema, Militao and Courtois, the players who gave them the most security in both areas and suffered a defeat that mainly showed their lack of punch without the Frenchman.
Without Benzema, the goal even costs a penalty kick
As a sign of the offensive problem, it is that he stayed without finishing on goal in the first half of a LaLiga match against Villarreal for the first time since September 2021. In fact, the meringues shot 20 times, but only 1 went on target, 6 were disallowed and 13 went wide.
In addition, Marco Asensio missed a penalty that could have put them in the game and it was strange that the shooter was not Rodrygo, who had collected three maximum penalty goals without a miss of the 9 Real took this season.
In fact, since Ramos’ departure, the meringues have lost some faith in maximum penalties and They have missed seven penalties in LaLiga (20 shots, 13 goals), at least two more than any other team in the league.on.
In addition, since the return from the World Cup, the Merengue team has accumulated 6 matches with 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw and scored 7 goals and Benzema, who did not play in Mallorca, participated in 6 of them with 4 goals and 2 assists.
Mallorca cut through the white rhythm
Mallorca, for its part, managed to stop the game of merengue with all the means at its disposal and ended up committing 29 fouls in this match, the most by a team in the same match in the five major European competitions since Eibar against Huesca (30 ) in November 2020.
Source: Goal