{"id":207373,"date":"2016-04-17T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=207373"},"modified":"2016-04-17T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:41:07","slug":"getafe-1-5-real-madrid-ronaldo-bale-score-real-thrash-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=207373","title":{"rendered":"Getafe 1-5 Real Madrid: Ronaldo, Bale score as Real thrash hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gareth Bale reached 16 goals for the first time in a La Liga season as Real Madrid thrashed Getafe 5-1 to move one point behind leaders Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Real’s seventh successive league win kept alive their hopes of a first title since 2012 and sent neighbours Getafe to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n

Karim Benzema put Real ahead and after Isco made it 2-0 at half-time, Bale raced clear to add the third.<\/p>\n

Getafe replied before James Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo added late goals.<\/p>\n

Barca, who have taken just one point from the last possible nine, play at home to Valencia on Sunday (19:30 BST).<\/p>\n

Real kept the pressure on the defending champions, while Juan Esnaider made a losing start as Getafe’s new coach. His side have now lost 11 of their past 13 games.<\/p>\n

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Karim Benzema also has a La Liga best with his 22 goals surpassing his 2011-12 total<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Real, who beat Wolfbsurg in the Champions League on Tuesday to set up asemi-final with Manchester City, barely had to extend themselves to get the result they needed to go above Atletico Madrid, who play Granada on Sunday (17:15 BST), and into second place.<\/p>\n

Coach Zinedine Zidane was able to take off both Bale and Benzema in the second half to give them a rest before Real’s midweek league game at home to fourth-placed Villarreal.<\/p>\n

Wales forward Bale, 26, set his best Liga tally since arriving in a world-record \u00a385m move in September 2013, racing into the Getafe area from the right and curling left-footed into the far corner.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo continued his record of having played every minute of Real’s La Liga campaign and claimed his 47th goal of the season, scoring for the fourth league game in a row in stoppage time when he tapped in after being set up by Jese.<\/p>\n

Substitute Jese had also created the fourth goal for Rodriguez, who capped in an impressive performance with a cool finish to enhance his side’s goal difference after former Real forward Pablo Sarabia had eaten into the lead with a fine strike in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n

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Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 31st league goal of the season, five more than Barcelona’s Luis Suarez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What they said<\/h3>\n

Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane:<\/b> “We are doing our job and are getting closer and closer.<\/p>\n

“We are going to bed one point behind, but we can’t look beyond that.”<\/p>\n

Praising Benzema after the France international was told he would not be picked for Euro 2016, Zidane added: “It did affect him and yes he is disappointed, but he is a professional and he knows that on the field he is very important for the team.<\/p>\n

“Today he scored and had two assists, so he is very concentrated on what he is doing.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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