Evening all, and welcome to Levante v Real Madrid!

Thanks all for your company - ta-ra.

That was an excellent performance from Levante who, on the balance of play, were well worth a point, at least. But there is a handy metric for measuring who deserves to win a football match and it's called the score, so Madrid close the gap on Barcelona to six points. If they can beat them next weekend, who knows. Levante, meanwhile, are still 10 off the 40 they'll want to avoid relegation, but if they play like that every week they'll be fine.

Full-time: Levante 1-2 Real Madrid

There's not much going on here - Madrid have disappeared the final stages in very professional manner.

Simon whips in a cross, but Modric is there to calmly kick clear.

Levante have gone, I think. Madrid have been pretty calm since taking the lead.

There'll be four added minutes.

Final roll for Levante: Vukcevic replaces Bardhi.

Ahahahahaha! RED CARD RUBEN ROCHINA! He gobs off from the bench, and the ref shows him a second yellow. Imagine having to go home, have your missus ask how the game went, and then be forced to tell her that.

This has been a really enjoyable game.

RED CARD NACHO! With all these bookings, that was coming. Cabaco looks to move the ball down the line to Simon and Nacho is already sprung into action, pulling him down and trudging off after an inevitable second yellow. Madrid have four minutes plus injury-time to survive.

Madrid work the ball out of defence nicely, and Campana slides in on Modric without a prayer of getting it, landing studs on ankle. He's booked.

Final change for Madrid: Vinicius off, Asensio on.

On the touchline, Pedro Lopez, a Levante sub, gobs off to the ref. He's booked.

Elsewhere...

Why, though, did Fernandez go again? Bale stuttered twice, so was clearly hoping the keeper would move and clearly indicated that too.

GOAL! Levante 1-2 Real Madrid (Bale pen) Bale pauses, pauses again, and as Fernandez goes right, rolls left. Then as Lucas comes to celebrate, he shakes him off, presumably in vex at his lack of starting time.

PENALTY TO MADRID! Levante can't clear the ball first time, and then when it bobbles about and Doucoure has a swipe, he apparently gets a piece of Casemiro, who collapses! I'm not at all sure about that, but VAR allows the call to stand!

Bale, appearing in the middle, spreads nicely to Reguilon, and he motors past Doucoure then crosses low; a deflection off Cabaco takes the ball behind.