Madrid needed 3 points. And Madrid managed to achieve it. By securing 3 points in this match, Real Madrid has been able to reduce the gap with Barcelona. It is not surprising to see Real Madrid at the top of the table in the next few weeks. Because Barcelona has failed to play well in recent matches.
After adding Mbappe to the squad, we thought that Madrid would become unstoppable this season. Madrid will be able to break any team's defense easily. However, we are not seeing that this season. The bonding of the players in the midfield with the forwards is weak. Therefore, Madrid's overall performance has also become irregular. At the same time, Madrid is not getting consistent good performance from two important players like Mbappe and Bellingham. Honestly, I miss Toni Kroos a lot in Madrid's squad this season. If Kroos had been with the Madrid squad, Madrid's midfield would undoubtedly have been more stable.
To be fair it looks like he did play alright for this game, definitely looked stronger this way. They had way to omany wings and not enough strikers last season, and instead this season they have plenty of strikers with Mbappe considered to be one, and Endrick too, and yet they are missing both Vini and Rodrygo so it's a big problem.
In the end, I am pretty sure that they are going to do fine, just as we see here them getting three points, we can be certain that they are not going to give up the la liga chase. They are still very close to Barcelona and one loss from Barcelona would mean Real Madrid will take the lead, even a tie would be enough. I understand they are looking terrible at UCL, but even that could be fixed, they will finish withing top 24, and they will go to playoff knockout stage, and they will win that, then it's last sixteen, everything is reset after the group stages so we are going to see Real Madrid do better I am sure of it.