Villarreal players were able to put a lot of pressure on Real Madrid in this match. Villarreal performed well especially in the second half. Villarreal dominated the match in the second half. However, due to Ancelotti's excellent match strategy and Madrid's strong defense, Villarreal could not score any goals in the second half of this match. I would say that villarreal played quite well. However, it is naturally very difficult to win against an experienced team like Madrid.
Villarreal were also able to take the lead over Real Madrid before Mbappe made two goals in the first half against Villarreal, but if you look at the expected goals and the total kicks that Villarreal were able to create, of course it was much more than what Real Madrid could do as the away team in the match. However, the two goals that Mbappe was able to score in the match were enough to give Real Madrid three points and the pressure that the home team was able to build was also useless at all.
Villarreal is indeed a strong team but Real Madrid is still Real Madrid which is very difficult to beat so there are no surprises in this match regardless of the many attacks made by Villarreal or they had the lead first but the final result was 2-1 for Real Madrid's victory and that was an important victory for Ancelotti's team to stay competitive in the fight for the La Liga title this season.
Tonight a fierce match between two title contenders this season will be presented between Atletico Madrid against Barcelona, this is an important match for both teams to occupy the top of the La Liga standings, a revenge mission for Barcelona who were defeated in the first leg and a mission to maintain hope for Atletico Madrid to win the match later so in terms of motivation both teams are quite the same but I see realistically that Barcelona's strength is slightly better so I think it's worth it to bet on Barcelona's victory in the match later especially with odds @ 2.23 which is quite worthy of being bet on.