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A blunder by the Sevilla goalkeeper Bono ended Real Madrid’s three-match winless run in La Liga as Zinedine Zidane’s men banked three hard-fought points. Bono could only help Vinícius Júnior’s 55th-minute effort into his own net at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium to allow the visitors to leave with a 1-0 victory.
Real, who lost to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League in midweek, enjoyed the better of the first half but had to withstand a concerted fightback as Sevilla, beaten 4-0 at home by Chelsea on Wednesday, attempted to scrap their way back into the game.
The visitors started in determined mood with Vinícius, Casemiro and Karim Benzema all setting their sights on goal inside the opening five minutes without troubling Bono. Toni Kroos fired just wide from distance with 21 minutes gone, while Sevilla responded when Jules Koundé met Jesús Navas’s 33rd-minute cross, but could not find the target with his header.
Bono saved from both Benzema and Raphaël Varane as the half-time whistle approached, but the sides remained locked together at the break.
Sevilla forward Luuk de Jong, who had earlier headed wide, called upon Real keeper Thibaut Courtois with an acrobatic 52nd-minute strike, but the home side were behind within three minutes. Vinícius got the merest of touches to Ferland Mendy’s left-wing cross and Bono fumbled the ball into his own net.
De Jong went close to an equaliser with a 59th-minute header and substitute Nemanja Gudelj drilled a venomous free-kick inches wide with 15 minutes remaining as the home side responded. On-loan AC Milan midfielder Suso curled an 80th-minute effort agonisingly past the upright and Courtois denied Lucas Ocampos as time ran down, but both Kroos and Benzema might have cemented victory before the final whistle.
Elsewhere, goals from Roger Martí, Daniel Gómez and Jorge de Frutos game Levante a 3-0 home win against Getafe and lifted them out of the bottom three.
In Germany, a stunning strike from the 18-year-old Giovanni Reyna earned Borussia Dortmund a 1-1 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt, who drew their fifth successive Bundesliga game.
Daichi Kamada gave the hosts a ninth-minute lead but, despite missing their top-scorer Erling Haaland with a hamstring injury, Dortmund took control after half-time and the USA midfielder Reyna levelled with the second Bundesliga goal of his career.
Dortmund, who had not drawn in their previous 27 league matches, are third with 19 points from 10 games.
“In the end, we can be satisfied,” said Dortmund coach Lucien Favre. “We always want to win but it wasn’t a good first-half performance. The second half was better, with more intensity and movement, we just needed that little bit more to win … I’m always OK with a point.“
“We have seen two very different halves,” the Eintracht coach Adi Huetter said. “The first half was our best half of the season and we should have been more than 1-0 ahead. After the break, we were always under pressure although Dortmund did not have as many clear opportunities either. I think that 1-1 is ultimately OK.”
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