By Goal.com News on Wednesday, 22 September 2021
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LIVE: Real Madrid vs Mallorca

18' Blocked! Good play by the visitors, they work it well and Lago Junior finds space just inside the penalty area and drills a low effort towards goal. However, Nacho does well to get across and makes a great block.

17' The pace of the game has dropped slightly in the last few minutes, with Madrid not looking particularly eager to go on athe attack themselves and the visitors are starting to grow onto the match.

15' Decent spell of possession here for Mallorca, but Madrid are putting them under a lot of pressure high up the pitch, so they are unable to get into the final third to create anything.

13' Mallorca are having to get everyone back to defend at the moment, in order to prevent Madrid from creating any goalscoring chance and doubling their lead early on. Which may potentially put the game beyond doubt.

11' After going four league visits to Real Madrid without losing between 2000 and 2004 (W3 D1), a run which included their biggest away win in their top-flight history (5-1 in May 2003), Mallorca have since lost nine of their last 10 away games against Madrid in LaLiga (W1).

9' Real Madrid look very comfortable in the opening few minutes of the game, they are dominating possession and are currently camped inside the Mallorca half of the pitch.

7' ALMOST! Madrid go close to doubling their lead direct from a corner! Asensio whips an excellent delivery into the box and it curls dangerously towards the near post, so Reina has to punch it clear off his line. However, he doesn't make great contact with it, but luckily Madrid can't capitalise and Mallorca clear the danger.

5' Decent effort! Kubo picks up a long ball over the top of the Madrid defence and he races down the right wing, before cutting inside and trying to find the bottom left corner of the net. However, his effort is off target and flies wide of goal.

1' We're under way!

The teams are out on the pitch and kick-off is just a few minutes away, stay tuned for all the match action!

Mallorca have made seven changes to their side, with only Reina, Valjent, Olivan and Kubo keeping their places in the starting line-up, as they look to put their recent results behind them.

Carlo Ancelotti has made four changes to his Real Madrid team, with Gutierrez, Asensio, Camavinga and Rodrygo coming into the starting line-up, with Dani Carvajal, Casemiro, Luka Modric and Hazard all dropping out.

MALLORCA SUBS: Antonio Sanchez, Fernando Nino, Dani Rodriguez, Amath Ndiaye, Jordi Mboula, Abdon Prats, Dominik Greif, Marc Carmona, Jaume Costa, Salva Sevilla, Iddrisu Baba.

MALLORCA (4-4-2): Manolo Reina; Joan Sastre, Martin Valjent, Brian Olivan, Josep Gaya; Takefusa Kubo, Aleix Febas, Rodrigo, Battaglia, Lee Kang-In; Laga Junior, Matthew Hoppe.

REAL MADRID SUBS: Lucas Vazquez, Andriy Lunin, Casemiro, Jesus Vallejo, Luka Modric, Toni Fuidias, Mariano, Eden Hazard, Luka Jovic, Antonio Blanco, Isco, Sergio Santos

REAL MADRID (4-3-3): Thibaut Courtois; Nacho, Eder Militao, David Alaba, Miguel Gutierrez; Marco Asensio, Eduardo Camavinga, Federico Valverde; Rodrygo, Karim Benzema, Vinicius Junior.

Meanwhile Mallorca are tenth in the table and are winless in their last two games, having suffered a 2-0 defeat against Athletic Club and this was followed up with a goalless draw with Villarreal at the weekend.

Real Madrid remain unbeaten in LaLiga so far this season, with four victories and a draw, which sees them sit second in table, just one point behind their city-rivals Atletico Madrid, who have played one extra game. Last time out in LaLiga, they beat Valencia 2-1, thanks to two late goals by Karim Benzema and Vinicius Junior.

Hello and welcome to our LIVE match commentary of the LaLiga clash between Real Madrid and Mallorca.

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