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Madrid: Real Madrid came close to suffering one of the most humbling defeats of the Zinedine Zidane era, but Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals to help the La Liga powerhouse salvage a 3-3 draw here against Las Palmas.<\/p>\nMadrid: Real Madrid came close to suffering one of the most humbling defeats of the Zinedine Zidane era, but Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals to help the La Liga powerhouse salvage a 3-3 draw here against Las Palmas.<\/p>\n
The Blancos appeared to be headed for an easy victory at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Wednesday when they got a goal in just the eighth minute from Isco, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
But Las Palmas answered two minutes later with a powerful right-footed strike by midfielder Tana into the back of the net past Keylor Navas and kept the hosts off the scoreboard for the rest of the first half.<\/p>\n
The real drama, however, started shortly after halftime when Gareth Bale lost his cool and got sent off for shoving Las Palmas midfielder Jonathan Viera, leaving Real Madrid a man down with 45 minutes to play.<\/p>\n
The game was tied at that point, but Viera made it 2-1 when he converted a penalty opportunity in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n
After that Ghanaian midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng scored an insurance goal four minutes later when he tapped the ball away from Navas on a breakaway opportunity and then fired into an empty net.<\/p>\n
Things looked bleak for the home side, but Cristiano Ronaldo demonstrated all of his class in converting a penalty try in the 87th minute and then scoring the equalizer two minutes later on a header that Las Palmas net minder Javi Varas could only deflect into the roof of the net.<\/p>\n
With the draw, the Blancos moved to within one point of La Liga-leading FC Barcelona, which routed Sporting Gijon 6-1 earlier Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid also has a game in hand on its arch-rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madrid: Real Madrid came close to suffering one of the most humbling defeats of the Zinedine Zidane era, but Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals to help the La Liga powerhouse salvage a 3-3 draw here against Las Palmas.<\/p>\n
The Blancos appeared to be headed for an easy victory at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Wednesday when they got a goal in just the eighth minute from Isco, reports Efe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1938,12975,466,3604,1475,13565],"class_list":["post-33758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"yoast_head":"\n