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Diving after Barca! Lucky Madrid keep title hopes alive with win over Levante

Santiago Solari's side has benefitted from VAR several times in recent weeks with the most recent instance proving controversial

Real Madrid face Barcelona next Saturday at the Santiago Bernabeu still in a title fight, but their hopes could - and perhaps should - have been quashed already.

Los Blancos are nine points from the Catalans and can cut that down to six with a Clasico victory, but only thanks to one of the worst refereeing decisions of the season on Sunday.

Madrid scraped a 2-1 win at Levante, needing two penalties to beat the spirited east coast side, the second of which was a ludicrous decision that called into question the whole VAR system.