Madrid
Casillas; Ramos, Pepe, Carvalho, Arbeloa; Lassana, Khedira; Ronaldo, Ozil, Di Maria; Benzema

Sevilla
Palop; Dabo, Caceres, Escude, Navarro; Zokora, Romaric, Konko, Capel; Negredo, Fabiano

Madrid controlling the game in the first 20 minutes, but Sevilla are defending well, and in numbers. Benzema got into the area, but tried to pass when he should have shot.

Game starting to open up now, first Escudé heads narrowly wide from a corner, then Palop almost caught off-guard from a Di María rocket.

HT, 0-0

Low-key end to the half, nothing much of note. Expecting something better in the second half.

We are obviously missing Alonso, there is no organization in the midfield.

what a miss by Negredo

bad dive by Di Maria

Palop is such a little bitch though.

Should have been 0-1 there, for sure.

Carvalho sent off.

shocking red card for Carvalho. It was certainly a 50-50 challenge. Ref's blind.

He was living dangerously though, already on a yellow.

Is this Madrid's last game of 2010? Would be bad to lose here.

Yes, it is.

oh look Sevilla wasting time

1-0 Di Maria

Özil does nice work in the area, Zokora deflects it to Di María, who finishes past Palop.

sweet goal by Di Maria

this ref is so shocking, it's laughable. yellow cards for everyone.

Sevilla are angry because Ozil is walking instead of running for a substitution bunch of hypocrites

what is that whispering all about ffs

Dabo sent off...

Kicked Di Maria deliberately.

Final

Madrid 1-0 Sevilla


Did the bare minimum, but a win is a win. At least we have Marcelo and Alonso back for the next game.

Sevilla are dire, performance wise and attitude wise

But look at this idiot referee : 9 yellow cards for Madrid and 3 for Sevilla. Also 1 red card for each team.

pretty violent game ,with 11 cards

Don't get me started on Spanish refs, everything is a card, make Italians look good