Real Madrid 6-0 Levante: Karim Benzema equals Raul's Real Madrid goals total

Ancelotti's Men celebrate victory over Levante at Santiago Bernabeu

Vinicius Junior nets a hat-trick for LaLiga champions to boost morale for the Champions league title against Liverpool in Paris

Vini Jr. scored a hat-trick and Karim Benzema equalled Raúl's tally of goals for Real Madrid with his 323rd strike for the club as Los Blancos lit up the Santiago Bernabeu with four first-half goals to condemn Levante to relegation with a 6-0 thrashing on Thursday night. The victory is the champions’ 13th home league win of the campaign, and it means that Levante's time in La Liga is over.

Benzema, 34, netted a first-half header from Vinicius' pass to match Raul's 323 goals, with only Cristiano Ronaldo (450) scoring more for the club.

Ferland Mendy put the Spanish champions ahead, with Rodrygo and Vinicius adding the third and fourth.

Vinicius then scored twice more in the second half to seal the rout.

Carlo Ancelotti's Real, who face Liverpool in the Champions League final in Paris on Saturday, 28 May, clinched their 35th Spanish title at the end of April with four games to spare and ran riot against bottom-of-the-table Levante.

Left-back Mendy scored after only 13 minutes, bursting into the box and shooting past goalkeeper Dani Cardenas before Benzema doubled the lead six minutes later.

Rodrygo and Vinicius made it 4-0 by half time, both scoring after good work from Luka Modric, who became the first Real player since James Rodriguez in 2015 to contribute three assists in a La Liga match.

Levante needed to win at the Bernabeu and then again in both their last two matches to have any chance of avoiding relegation, but conceded a fifth in the 68th minute.

It was unselfish from Benzema as he collected another brilliant pass from Modric, went around Cardenas and pulled the ball back for Vinicius to get his second and Real's fifth.

Benzema and Modric, both superb throughout, received a rapturous reception when they were substituted with one of the men to have come on, Luka Jovic, setting up Vinicius as the 21-year-old Brazil winger completed his first Real hat-trick.

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