Real Madrid relieved some of the tension at the Bernabeu in a 2-1 win over relegation-threatened Alaves.<\/p>\n
Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior struck in each half to set up a first victory for Alvaro Arbeloa’s side in almost a month.<\/p>\n
Toni Martinez pulled one back in stoppage time as Alaves finished strongly, but it proved no more than a consolation.<\/p>\n
Real\u2019s hopes of overhauling Barcelona \u2013 who have a game in hand \u2013 at the top of La Liga remain slim, but they at least kept the race alive with a win that cut the deficit to six points.<\/p>\n
Rodrigo Riquelme scored in the 80th minute as Real Betis recorded a 3-2 win at Girona, while Gorka Guruzeta delivered the only goal of the game in a 1-0 victory for Athletic Bilbao over Osasuna.<\/p>\n
In the night\u2019s other fixture, Mallorca and Valencia played out a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n
In Italy, Inter Milan struck twice in the last four minutes to deny Cesc Fabregas\u2019s Como a historic first Coppa Italia final with a thrilling 3-2 comeback win at San Siro.<\/p>\n
Inter were two goals down in the tie before Hakan Calhanoglu provided the hosts with a lifeline on 69 minutes, and then pulled his side level with just four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
Substitute Petar Sucic struck a dramatic winner in the 89th minute to secure Inter\u2019s place in next month\u2019s showpiece and break Como hearts.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Lens reached their first Coupe de France final in 28 years with a 4-1 thrashing of Toulouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid relieved some of the tension at the Bernabeu in a 2-1 win over relegation-threatened Alaves. Kylian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-411298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}