Second half goals from Marco Asensio and Vinicius Junior were enough for Real Madrid to fend off a ten-man Valencia team in La Liga.

Real Madrid almost took the lead inside the opening three minutes, when Valencia's pourous defence was exposed by a wonderful through ball from Luka Modric. The pass played Marco Asensio clean through on goal, but the Spanish international's subsequent effort on goal was well saved by Giorgi Mamardashvili.

15 minutes later Asensio was denied the opener again, this time by ex-Arsenal man Gabriel Paulista. The centre-back did brilliantly to dive in front of Asensio's strike from around the penalty spot to keep the score a 0-0.