However, I believe we are going to end up seeing Real Madrid still end up winning this game, they are just too good not to. They are also close to Barcelona, they can't lose points now, they need to win every game until they catch up to Barcelona, otherwise the points gap would grow and Barcelona will play Alaves, which they should be winning.
Maintaining a 3 points margin at this time must still be done by Madrid because after all this can be an important situation to keep the competition under control for La Liga especially now that Barcelona is still in pretty good shape in the Flick era so Madrid must still try to get 3 points in every match that is done.
The first half is almost over and Madrid are still a goal up thanks to Valverde in the first 15 minutes but their attacking flexibility in this first half is still not very good because of the many chances they have only 1 on target they get and I think this is not very good for Madrid.
On the other hand im still quite questioning why Don Carlo is still trying the 4-4-2 scheme which in the end in the last few matches this scheme was not very effective but maybe there are several reasons behind this all just in terms of conditions on the field. IMO it would be better to do the scheme in 4-3-1-2 rather than 4-4-2 as it is today.