Villarreal 4-4 Real Madrid: La Liga's Top Scorer Sorloth Scores Four In Thrilling Comeback

Villarreal forward Alexander Sorloth struck four times in 17 minutes to help his side fight back and snatch a 4-4 home draw against champions Real Madrid on Sunday. (More Football News)

Madrid opened the scoring in the 14th 🐠minute when Turkey youngster Arda Guler slotted home a low strike off a Brahim Diaz pass before Joselu dou🅘bled the lead with a close-range header on the half-hour mark.

Sorloth pulled one back for Villarreal with a towering header in the 39th minu🍨te, but Lucas Vazquez restored Madrid's two-goal advantage a minute later, before Guler made 𒆙it 4-1 in the final seconds of the first half.

But the hosts rallied after the break, with Sorloth scoring three goals in eight minutes, between the 48th and 56th minutes, as h♋e reached 23 league goals this season to take LaLiga's Golden Boot award.

A second-half collapse will frustrate Carlo An💝celotti in the final league game of the season, with a Champions League final to come against Borussia Dortmund on June 1, but Madrid still achieved another record here.

Los Blancos surpassed the best unbeaten run in their entire LaLiga history after making it 31 games undefeated𒉰, eclipsing the previous record set between May 1988 and April 1989 with Leo Beenhak𒀰ker as coach.

Data Debrief: Shot-heavy Sorloth delivers

Sorloth attempted nine shots in this game, the joint-highest total for a player ꦏin🔴 LaLiga this season, but those efforts paid dividends for his eye-catching four-goal haul.

He had played five games against Madrid and failed to score in all of them before th🎐is, against no other opponent has he pla🌳yed more games without scoring in the competition, but delivered emphatically here.