{"id":557881,"date":"2026-03-22T22:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:53:16","slug":"real-madrid-vs-atletico-madrid-live-vinicius-proves-decisive-in-thrilling-madrid-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557881\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid vs Atl\u00e9tico Madrid LIVE: Vin\u00edcius proves decisive in thrilling Madrid derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"66434654-a8ba-a04c-98e5-6bbd0dbbb780\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=86\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a> completed an emphatic 3-2 comeback against rivals Atl\u00e9tico to keep their bid for the LaLiga title alive, as they reduced the gap to four points behind <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Madrid derby was action-packed, as <a data-player-guid=\"ada556b6-fd9c-8e05-12da-814a9c1c7bba\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/229645\/ademola-lookman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ademola Lookman<\/a> struck first for the visitors, before <a data-player-guid=\"f78d15e9-f696-dc66-52f0-b3f28e6b83e1\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/252107\/vinicius-junior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a>&#8216;s penalty kick levelled things in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"4596832d-d906-4ce5-b3b4-eee94499abad\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/235818\/federico-valverde\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federico Valverde<\/a> then struck Madrid&#8217;s second just three minutes after with a tidy side-foot finish to tilt the game back in the hosts&#8217; favour.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Nahuel Molina&#8217;s thunderous strike from 25 yards levelled things again before <a data-player-guid=\"190660a8-282c-34aa-8060-f7bcba24af78\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/298067\/vinicius\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vin\u00edcius<\/a> completed the turnaround to seal three valuable points at the Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n<p>Valverde was sent off late in the second half, but the hosts managed to hold out their lead to hand Diego Simeone&#8217;s men a sour defeat on his 50th game in charge of this derby.<\/p>\n<p>Relive the action below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid completed an emphatic 3-2 comeback against rivals Atl\u00e9tico to keep their bid for the LaLiga title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-557881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}