Real Madrid maintain seven-point gap over Barcelona
Real Madrid maintained their seven-point advantage over Barcelona at the top of La Liga with a scrappy victory over cross-city rivals Getafe at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, defender Sergio Ramos getting the only goal of the game on 18 minutes when he headed home a Mesut Ozil corner.
On a cold and wet night in the Spanish capital in front of just 13,000 spectators, Iker Casillas in the Madrid goal was rarely threatened and in truth the visitors should have gone on to win by more, but they were still indebted to referee Delgado Ferreiro who missed what looked like a handball by Pepe in the penalty area.
“From where I was sat it looked like a penalty,” complained Getafe boss Luis García Plaza. “But if he did not give a penalty then it is not a penalty; the referee gives what he sees and if he did not see it then that’s it.
“When I lose a game I always want to get a point or to win. If my team doesn’t take at least a point then I am not happy, although I know against the league leaders you don’t get many chances - but I am still not happy. It was a game where we could have got something because Madrid didn’t play like they usually do,” he added.
The result means Real have now won eight consecutive away matches, equalling the second-best run in their history in the 2008-09 season when Bernd Schuster was on the bench, with José Mourinho now just one game away from equalling Manuel Pellegrini’s record of nine successive away victories in the 2009-10 campaign.
This season Los Blancos have won nine, drawn one and lost one of 11 games away from the Santiago Bernabéu, having conceded only six goals and scored 30, and now face two home games against Levante and Racing Santander before their next away fixture at neighbours Rayo Vallecano.
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