The white team goes into the Christmas break as the best team in La Liga and with a total of victories in the Champions League.
There are 24 games that, to date, Real Madrid has played between La Liga and the Champions League since the official season started back in August with the game in San Mamés. More than four months of competition, which in football are very long, especially due to the busy schedule and in which anything can happen, but what the white team has barely lived and experienced in this period has been the taste of defeat.
Real Madrid’s first round of La Liga, with only one match left to complete it definitively, is practically perfect. They close the year as leaders (tied on points with Girona), with only one game lost, being the team with the least goals scored by far and the second highest scorer in the championship. Records that have made Carlo Ancelotti’s squad a practically unbeatable rival.
Along the way, Real Madrid has experienced brilliant moments with Bellingham at the helm, but also less discreet ones such as the defeat, the only one of the season, against Atlético de Madrid. However, his consistency has been definitive for success and even in the less brilliant games, like the one he played in Vitoria against Alavés, the opportunism of some players like Lucas Vázquez took the chestnuts out of the fire.
Real Madrid is going at cruising speed this season, even though they have had serious setbacks from minute 1 in the form of very serious injuries. The plague of cruciate ligament tears that affect Courtois, Militao and Alaba have done damage, but not enough to defeat a tough team that also rules with authority in the Champions League.
Bellingham, the star
Since the season started everything has revolved around Jude Bellingham. The English midfielder landed on his feet at Real Madrid and gave an immediate performance. It seemed like he had been wearing white all his life, although Carlo Ancelotti has had a lot to do with this and the ecosystem that he has created so that he feels so comfortable on the pitch. Soon the victories began to arrive, one after another as if it were their daily bread. Athletic, Almería, Celta, Getafe, Real Sociedad, etc., all fell in La Liga, but the same thing also happened when the whites set foot on European territory.