Mbappe scores two, Guler one, as Real Madrid find form before El Clasico

Real Madrid bushed Sevilla 4-1 a time aft Barcelona thrashed Real Betis 5-2, arsenic the Spanish giants hole for El Clasico.

Kylian Mbappe scored doubly arsenic Real Madrid closed the spread connected La Liga leaders Barcelona to six points with ⁠⁠a 4-1 triumph implicit Sevilla astatine the Santiago Bernabeu, a week earlier the rivals meet.

Despite the lack of suspended Vinicius Jr, Real produced the fluid attacking shot the squad had been lacking of late, with Arda Guler again orchestrating their champion enactment connected Sunday.

After a stale opening, the Turkish planetary sparked the lucifer into life.

Sevilla appealed for a reddish paper pursuing an incidental involving Guler and Peque Fernandez, but Guler responded minutes aboriginal by collecting Yan Diomande’s walk and arrowing a changeable into ⁠⁠the apical corner.

Arda Guler scored his 2nd extremity of the La Liga play for Real Madrid [Oscar Del Pozo/AFP]

Mbappe scored an arsenic awesome 2nd successful the 37th ⁠⁠minute, turning brilliantly to burst done connected extremity earlier calmly beating Odysseas Vlachodimos.

Fede Valverde, restored to close backmost by manager Jose Mourinho, made a important artifact to contradict Felix Correia conscionable earlier the hr arsenic Sevilla threatened to enactment ⁠⁠their mode backmost into the contest.

Diomande past exploited the abstraction created by Sevilla’s much adventurous approach, evading his marker earlier sending Mbappe successful ⁠⁠behind the defence. Andres Castrin brought down the French forward, ⁠⁠who got to his feet to person the resulting punishment and efficaciously settee the contest.

Substitute Manu Bueno reduced Sevilla’s arrears with a composed decorativeness 10 minutes from clip aft Mbappe cheaply surrendered possession heavy wrong his ain half.

Diomande restored Real’s ‌‌three-goal vantage 2 minutes later, capping a good show with a thunderous strike.

Eder Militao received a lukewarm ovation erstwhile helium came connected successful the 85th infinitesimal for his archetypal quality since undergoing ‌‌hamstring ‌‌surgery successful April.

Mourinho volition instrumentality encouragement from 1 of the astir implicit performances of his 2nd spell astatine Real arsenic they hole for adjacent Sunday’s pivotal gathering with Barcelona.

Real, who person won 3 consecutive games successful each competitions pursuing the planetary break, climbed ⁠⁠to 3rd connected 21 points, 1 down Atletico Madrid, portion Sevilla are sixth connected 14.

Lamine Yamal has begun the play successful superb signifier for Barcelona [Jorge Guerrero/AFP]

Earlier connected Saturday, Barcelona bushed Real Betis 5-2 to marque it 9 wins from 9 and ⁠⁠stretch their blistering league tally to 39 goals.

Lamine Yamal lit the fuse with a dazzling opener earlier Rodri, Gabriel Jesus, Eric Garcia and substitute Dani Olmo joined the party, portion Valentin Gomez and Ez Abde replied for Betis, who played overmuch of the ⁠⁠second fractional with 10 men aft Facundo Bernal was sent disconnected for head-butting Lamine.

Barca moved to 27 points, 5 supra Atletico, who won 1-0 astatine Espanyol, portion third-placed Betis person 19 and Real Madrid beryllium 4th connected 18 earlier welcoming Sevilla connected Sunday.

Elsewhere, Osasuna withstood second-half unit from Racing Santander to triumph 2-0 successful Jagoba Arrasate’s archetypal crippled backmost arsenic manager.

Two flying saves from Ionut Radu denied Alaves a constituent successful a 2-1 decision to Celta Vigo, portion ‌‌Real Sociedad won 5-2 astatine Malaga.