Gareth Bale gets sent off for Real Madrid ahead of Ireland match

When Viera confronted Bale about the incident, the Real Madrid forward aggressively pushed his opponent to the floor right in front of the referee…

Zinedine Zidane has been forced to call Pepe back from the bench as Raphael Varane has been ruled out for a number of weeks with a thigh injury.

Real sit one point above Barcelona at the top of the table with two games in hand.

“We left our dressing room to see a tumult, with players and coaches from both teams arguing”. It’s great for me that everyone wants to play’. “I am always with them”. We will mind our own business, which is to win every match and secure the league title.

This season, he is registering an average of 1.48 key passes, 1.70 chances created, 3.04 tackles won, 2.40 successful take-ons and a whopping 92.12 successful passes per 90 minutes in Ligue 1, according to Squawka. Referees sometimes give you and others take away, but you have to be prepared for everything.

He said: ‘We are going to fight. “I won’t get into what a player or a club president said”. There will be a lot of people who will cry foul, and La Liga has probably got to look into the matter. “Those screenshots are from the Madrid media to avoid bias”. Gerard Pique took to Twitter to highlight what he believed was evidence of Luis Enrique’s side not benefitting from similar offences. “You already know my opinion and I’m not going to change it”.

INCIDENTS: La Liga MD25 fixture played at the Santiago Bernabeu.

10-men Real needed time to regroup as Zidane sought a way back into the game, but weren’t afforded one as 13th placed Las Palmas turned a one goal lead into two before their fans had even finished celebrating the second. Madrid has a game in hand, at Celta Vigo.

Barcelona badly needed a convincing victory to regain confidence following an unimpressive 2-1 win over promoted Leganes — when Messi also scored a late victor — and a demoralizing 4-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain. The team will try to win its fifth in a row in the league when it hosts relegation-threatened Sporting Gijon on Wednesday.