By Chris Wright
Despite the away side managing to score not once, not twice, but thrice at the Bernabeu, Real Madrid still managed to trounce Sevilla last night, sticking seven goals past their guests with Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema grabbing a brace a-piece and Cristiano Ronaldo going one further to nab a hat-trick – the first goal of which he celebrated with a non-too-subtle nod to Sepp Blatter, with whom he has, as the urban youths of today would have it, “beef“…
As well as racking up two goals and two assists in his first full league start for Real, Mr Bale also rediscovered his diving touch, collapsing beautifully in the box in a vain attempt to con a penalty in the second half…
Lovely. Textbook stuff.
It’s also worth mentioning that, as well as having a man sent off for brushing Luka Modric’s hair (QPR loanee Stephane M’Bia), Sevilla also scored what was perhaps the goal of the evening, with Ivan Rakitic’s second of the night definitely rivalling any of Madrid’s seven efforts in the golazo stakes…