The performance of Real Madrid last night against Barcelona looks very strange to me but at the end of the game I read in papers where some of the players confirmed that they played as if they were playing finals and that was the instruction of their coach.
Real Madrid team and management know that they have not been very good this season as it is obvious from their La Liga games, they know that they have lost any chances of winning the La Liga, their best chances to win something is the champions league and the Copa del Rey. Every game is a preparation for the other game, and with this win, the confidence of the players and Benzena who scored a Hat trick will be up in readiness for their important champions league game and in their next game in the Copa del Rey.
Real Madrid over the years has shown that they're a club with strong winning mentality and on several occasions has they turned around matches that almost everyone thinks they've lost out and deliver incredible performances to end up as winners and such characteristics is very rare in modern day football.
Yesterday's match was different because they weren't trailing in the tie after winning the first leg by a goal to nil but because they were beaten in the league by the same Barcelona they met played against yesterday, they wanted to make a big statement of how big of club they are and they did that in clinical fashion. Karim Benzema is still having who has scored 6 goals in his last two matches also needed to tell opposing defenders that's he's very much a deadly striker despite his age