Celta Vigo earn shock 2-0 win at the Bernabeu as Real Madrid implode

Substitute Williot Swedberg scores brace to decision Real Madrid, who ended crippled with 9 players aft 2 reddish cards.

Real Madrid suffered a shock 2-0 loss and finished with 9 men against Celta Vigo successful their La Liga clash aft Williot Swedberg scored an audacious extremity with his bottommost and a 2nd successful stoppage clip to permission the hosts 4 points disconnected leaders Barcelona.

Swedish substitute Swedberg cleverly diverted a transverse from Bryan Zaragoza past Thibaut Courtois successful the 53rd infinitesimal to enactment Celta up and had an casual decorativeness 3 minutes into added time, going astir the goalkeeper to wrapper up the points connected Sunday.

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Celta jumped from 14th to 10th portion the decision ended Real’s 100 percent location league grounds this play aft six successive wins.

Xabi Alonso’s stuttering Real squad person present won lone 1 of their past 5 league games arsenic they await the midweek accomplishment of Manchester City successful the Champions League.

Alonso chose to remainder centre-back Antonio Rudiger, starting with Alvaro Carreras successful the bosom of defence but Rudiger’s interruption did not past long, with the German defender coming connected midway done the archetypal fractional aft Eder Militao pulled up injured.

Celta Vigo goalkeeper Ionut Radu made a fistful of bully saves successful the archetypal half, keeping retired a Jude Bellingham header and Arda Guler’s thrust from range.

Radu punches wide for Celta Vigo [Thomas Coex/AFP]

Madrid struggled to make superior information arsenic Celta acceptable up successful a tough-to-crack debased antiaircraft block, denying unsafe forwards Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior space.

Guler missed Madrid’s champion accidental of the archetypal half, with the Turkish playmaker sending a changeable wide connected the swivel aft Mbappe teed him up.

Radu besides thwarted Vinicius Junior aft Aurelien Tchouameni chopped a shot successful down the defence for the Brazilian to tally onto, a uncommon ace successful Celta’s armour.

Celta’s Romanian goalkeeper turned distant a fierce Fede Valverde effort from region aboriginal successful the 2nd half, earlier Celta stunned the hosts.

Bryan Zaragoza crossed from the near for Swedberg, who produced a gorgeous flicked decorativeness to bushed Thibaut Courtois to nonstop the Galicians ahead.

Swedberg, right, celebrates scoring the opener with teammate Bryan Zaragoza [Angel Martinez/Getty Images]

Madrid were wounded, virtually successful the lawsuit of Bellingham, with humor moving down his look from a chopped sustained successful a tussle with Celta people antheral Borja Iglesias.

Adding insult to wounded Fran Garcia earned 2 yellowish cards wrong a minute, the 2nd for a clumsy foul connected Swedberg, to permission Los Blancos with 10 men for the last 3rd of the match.

Mbappe sent a lob implicit Radu but down onto the extortion of the nett and substitute Gonzalo Garcia headed conscionable wide arsenic Madrid searched for an equaliser, which did not come.

Carreras was dismissed successful stoppage clip arsenic Madrid mislaid their heads, receiving a 2nd yellowish for dissent arsenic helium protested a determination by referee Alejandro Quintero.

With Madrid down to 9 and successful disarray, Celta wrapped up their triumph arsenic Swedberg rounded Courtois and ran the shot home.

Speaking to the media aft the game, Iglesias praised his side’s antiaircraft resilience to triumph a crippled with a “strange” ending.

“They person got a batch of quality. It is hard to play against them. We defended precise well,” helium said.

“The extremity of the crippled was beauteous strange. There were a batch of situations, and past determination were stoppages, and past immoderate fouls. They past got a spot desperate.

“We are doing good connected the roadworthy [as it is Celta Vigo’s 4th distant triumph this season]. It is hard to explain.”