GRANADA, Spain—Real Madrid swatted aside Granada 4-1 on Thursday to ensure the La Liga title race will go down to the wire.
Despite missing a number of first-team regulars, Real started the stronger and first-half strikes from Luka Modric and Rodrygo put the visitors in control.
Such was their dominance that even when Jorge Molina halved the deficit on 71 minutes, tapping in after Thibaut Courtois had kept out Luis Suarez’s initial effort, they rarely looked troubled.
🤳👋🧤 @thibautcourtois: "Hey madridistas! How are you! I hope all is well! It was important to win today and stay in the fight for LaLiga. We have two finals left and we will give our all to win."#HalaMadrid pic.twitter.com/XGhZXtOW8e
— Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@realmadriden) May 13, 2021
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