Real Madrid vs Eibar Live Score and Commentary, La Liga 2017-18 RMA vs EIB

PEEP! PEEP! PEEEEEP! FULLTIME REAL MADRID 3-0 EIBAR

That's that and a routine win for Madrid. Fairly entertaining match, this, and thanks for reading!

Anirudh Menon signing out.... Toodle ooo!

92' UFF! INUI SMASHES A BALL AT CASILLA'S GOAL AND THE KEEPER DOES WELL TO PARRY IT OUT FOR A CORNER... Inui has been excellent tonight

91' AI! AI! Enrich runs onto a lovely Rivera ball and Casilla does superbly to spread himself wide and stop the shot - Enrich was offside anyway

90' Rivera does well to hunt down Casemiro after being beaten by him and nicks the ball off the Brazilian's toes as he looked to power into the Eibar box

88' Inui has another pop - and why not, considering the day he's had - but it's not all that well hit. Ronaldo races up the pitch and smashes a shot straight at Dmitrovic. It's just not his day

86' OH! Benzema once again drifts back and Casemiro steals the ball off Lucas' toes and controls the ball inside the Eibar box.

85' Eibar are still playing some neat football - Inui and Cote especially - but Madrid have just been far too clinical on the night. Cote sends in another teasing ball that Ramos struggles to clear, but Casilla comes to his captain's rescue

84' Benzema drifts out wide and plays in another lovely ball to Theo but his ball into the box is well covered by Paulo

WOOF! WHAT A FINISH! Benzema flicks the ball into Theo with a superb touch and races on to the return and plays in Marcelo with another sublime first touch... the Brazilian collects it at the corner of the box and smashes it into the bottom of the net

82' GOOOOOOOAL! MARCELO!

81' Pena skins Theo with a lovely shuffle of his feet, but the left-back recovers well enough to block his cross into the box.

79' Eibar finally throws on Sergi Enrich, taking off Gonzalo Escalante... Eibar have two out-and-out strikers on the pitch. Inui tries to belt one in from twenty yards, but it flies well wide of Casilla's far post

78' OOO! Ramos fakes a shot and tries to play it into Ronaldo, but Paulo Oliviera reads his intentions perfectly... Marcelo then tries to ping the ball to the far post toward Ronaldo - who shoots from a narrow angle and out of play

76' UFF! Nacho pings forward a ball that Benzema kills dead with a heavenly touch; but Arbilla does ever so well to marshall him and the ball away from danger

75' A loose pass from Vazquez enables Inui to steal it and play the ball forward looking for Kike, but the ball's woefully overhit

73' Cote is the source of all trouble for Madrid, but his cross into the box is once again handled superbly Ramos... Madrid counter at pace and Ronaldo plays it to Benzema... who's shot is blocked superbly by poor Paulo Oliviera

72' Poor ol' Ander Capa, who still doesn't look a 100% fit after having rushed back from injury, is taken off and Ruben Pena races on his stead

71' Zidane makes his last two subs as Lucas Vazquez and Marcelo come on for Isco and Dani Ceballos.

70' AHAHA! SERGIO RAMOS YOU FREE SOUL YOU! Casemiro sees a figure in white at the edge of the Eibar box and whips around to try and release him... the figure happens to be Ramos who has rampaged forward... because... erm, he's Ramos... and Escalante has to be alive to the danger to cut the ball out

69' Isco and Ronaldo try and combine for another Madrid counter but Arbilla continues his excellent defensive display by reading Isco's intentions and cutting out the pass

68' OH! Some superb passing from Eibar rips open Madrid as Capa slips in Kike Garcia but the new arrival was caught offside by Varane... but Eibar have not stopped knocking on the Madrid door

67' Isco tries to find Ronaldo in a similar position but the ball is woefully overhit

66' OH RONALDO!! OH RONALDO! He is sent in clear by a delightful Modric ball, races into the box and shoots straight at Dmitrovic! OH WOW! WHAT A MISS! The rebound is sent rather comically into space by Karim Benzema

65' Modric nutmegs Jordan, flying angles twirling around Jordan's heads lowing trumpets, before sending a snap shot crashing into the hoardings.

64' Eibar are forcing the issue here, mainly through the sublime left foot of Cote - but Ramos is having one of those rock-solid defensive displays that he often pulls out when his team needs him to, and thumps the cross clear

63' Nothing comes from the corner... and Capa sends in another one that is way too deep. Mendillibar takes off a dead-on-his-feet Charles and throws on Kike Garcia while Karim Benzema is brought on for Marco Asensio

62' Inui gets past Casemiro like he isn't there... but Ceballos comes back and holds him up well enough for Casemiro to come back and bully the ball off the Japanese. Eibar come roaring back and Cote's cross into the box is nudged out for a corner by Theo

60' AH! Asensio drifts in brilliantly onto another peach of a Modric pass but his cutback is cleared by Lomban ahead of Ronaldo. The corner comes to nothing.

59' Another superb Arbilla challenge means Ronaldo can't instigate a Madrid counter but Los Blancos string around some good looking passes and Theo sends a teasing ball in that is just behind Ronaldo. The slump of the shoulders tells you everything about what the great man is going through

58' OH! INUI AND CHARLES PRESS CASILLA AND THE KEEPER DOES SUPERBLY TO KEEP HIS CALM AND PASS THE BALL OUT OF BOUNDS! PHEW!

57' Real Madrid are under quite a bit of pressure right now....

55' OOO! Cote curls an intelligent ball in but Varane whips it out ahead of Charles..... Casemiro then smashes into Inui INSIDE THE BOX and that should be penalty and a second yellow. Casemiro being Casemiro that's just play on

54' Charles goes head to head with Ramos and Theo but can't force the issue. Casemiro compunds the issue by lazily wafting it toward Escalante and Eibar start pressurising Madrid again...

52' Ronaldo sends it into row Z. Why does he even take these freekicks anymore!

51' Ceballos is taken down by Inui and Madrid have a freekick in an interesting looking position twenty-five yards out of goal. Guess who's taking it.

49' SMASHING REAL MADRID COUNTER...... AND OH! ISCO! OH! ISCO! Ronaldo and Asensio combine superbly to release Isco down the right and he opts for the dangerous option (when your teammate is Cristiano Ronaldo) and shoots at goal, but Dmitrovic does superbly to close him down and smother the shot

48' It's smacked clear by Ramos... and Ander Capa sends the second ball in well out of play

47' till Casemiro intercepts a loose Jordan ball... but Eibar's shape keeps Madrid out and the ball is win back and Inui is brought down by Nacho. Good-looking position, this freekick is in

46' Eibar start the half like they did the first and they are controlling the ball...

PEEP! WE ARE OFF AGAIN!

PEEP! HALFTIME!

An unconvincing Real Madrid lead a fighting Eibar 2-0... the crowd, and their coach, will expect better from Los Blancos in the second half.

45'... only for Ronaldo to pass the ball way too forcefully for Isco to catch up

44' Cote mishits a cross at the end of a promising Eibar move and Real Madrid counter...

42' Theo races forward and sends a ball into the box that Dmitrovic is relieved to grasp.... he kicks it forward where Inui almost runs circles around Ramos but the Madrid captain does well to keep the Japanese at bay

41' Cote is released by a wonderful early ball by Jordan and the left wingback swings in a lovely ball that Ramos does ever so well to keep away from Charles at the Madrid near post

40' OH! ARBILLA SLIDES INTO A BRILLIANT TACKLE AS THEO BROKE FREE ON A SMASHING MADRID COUNTER

39' Eibar are gaining back the confidence they lost with those two stunning blows and Cote, Jordan and Escalante force the issue before Cote is brought down by Casemiro

38' OOOH! COTE! He lets fly with his cultured left foot and the ball whizzes past a haplessly rooted Casilla and inches past his far post. That was mighty close

37' Ronaldo draws the applause of the crowd with a sprint after a hopeless cause... they love a honest trier here at the Bernabeu

36' Nacho romps forward and lays it off to Ronaldo but Lomban sticks to him and Madrid have to recycle possession - and end up giving away a cheap foul on Inui