Real Madrid is truly lucky, but this luck comes from the strong mentality of the Real Madrid players themselves and thanks to the mature strategy of a great coach that they have, namely Carlo Ancelotti, who looks like he will only accompany Real Madrid until this season, that is until His contract expires in 2024. Today's win brings Real Madrid back to the top of the standings. Because Girona failed to maintain the 1 goal lead they had in the first half. Because Real Betis was able to equalize in the second half quite convincingly.
The Alaves vs Real Madrid match really made everyone tense. Because Alavez could almost get 1 point if Real Madrid didn't score 1 goal in the added minute of time. Well, this is quite a dramatic victory. Because Real Madrid played with 10 players from the 55th minute.
Lucas goal was very meaningful and was the winner, a very crucial minute when all the Alaves players were almost working hard not to let Madrid get 3 points. From the whole match I admit that Alaves did their job well, but what they didn't pay attention to was the mentality of the Madrid players who all fought until the last second. If you look more closely at the time the goal was scored, the possibility of Lucas receiving the ball was actually quite small with his small stature actually making the Alaves players unaware that the ball was heading towards Lucas who was not at all closely guarded. When Nanco was given a red card, the aggressiveness of Alaves attacks should have been more massive because they took advantage of Nanco empty position. Ancelotti recalled Modric because he wanted to use Tchouaméni in the back line. I think Madrid had to pay a heavy price for this victory because more and more defenders were absent either due to injury or accumulation of cards.
Girona had to hand over the top of the standings to Madrid because Girona failed to extend their victory when they visited Real Betis headquarters.