The last 40 days have seen Real Madrid win nine games in a row and maintain their perfect start to the 2022/23 season. However this season was not what the real period where this great string of perfect results started. Actually, the team from the Spanish capital have been in super form for almost 600 days now and this is just the continuation of what started about 600 days ago.
Real Madrid top LaLiga after a flawless start to the season and are the only team in Europe's top five leagues with a 100% record. Ancelotti's men have won all six games, scoring 17 goals and conceding six. During this first stretch, our team has beaten Almería, Celta, Espanyol, Betis, Mallorca and Atlético de Madrid.
Not one of the leaders of the other five big European leagues has managed this perfect start in their competition. Arsenal are the closest, with 6 wins (5 in a row) and 1 defeat; and PSG, with 7 wins (the last 4 in a row) and 1 draw. It's tied at the top of the table in Italy with Napoli and Atalanta both on 17 points after five wins and two draws. The same record as Union Berlin at the top of the Bundesliga.
This is the club's best start in LaLiga since 87/88: Real Madrid have got off to their best start in the league since the 1987/88 season. That season they won eight games, the same as in 1961/62. The best league start was in 1968/69, with nine consecutive wins.
This highly positive streak of 600 days includes the end of the 2020/21 season, the whole of last year and the start of the current campaign. Since February 2021, Real Madrid have played 89 games in all competitions, with a record of 63 wins, 16 draws and 10 defeats. That means Los Blancos have won 71 percent of their games in that time.
If we focus on just LaLiga Santander, that win percentage increases to 73 percent, with 45 wins, 13 draws and four defeats over 62 matches played. In other words, Real Madrid have won 148 points out of a possible 186, which is 80 percent. When compared with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid's last 62 games in LaLiga Santander, Real Madrid have taken 20 points more than their Catalan rivals and 31 points more than cross town opponents. Barcelona have taken 69 percent of the available points, while Atletico have taken 62 percent of the points on offer.
In January of 2021, Real Madrid had crashed out of the Supercopa de Espana, the Copa del Rey and suffered their umpteenth slip-up in LaLiga Santander with a defeat to Levante at home, leaving them 10 points behind Atletico Madrid. That was the moment when Real Madrid began to emerge from its last sporting crisis, when Zinedine Zidane’s team was on the lowest point. As the January ended, February presented another Real Madrid which was clearly better. That led to only one defeat in the final four months of 2020/21.
After hitting rock bottom, Real Madrid bounced back. Their last four months of competition during the 2020/21 season were stellar. They beat Huesca on February 6, and did not lose again in LaLiga Santander until 22 May. With the team securing 13 wins and five draws, that led them to fight for the title until the last matchday.
In the Champions League, they reached the semi-finals against Chelsea, who handed them their only defeat during that period. In total, 16 wins, 7 draws and one defeat was Real Madrid's record in the last four months of the 2020/21 season, an outstanding record that was only marred by the failure to win any titles.
Real Madrid took that form into last season with Carlo Ancelotti. They were unrivalled in LaLiga Santander and won the title with four games to go, with 26 wins, eight draws and four defeats, scoring 86 points out of a possible 114 (77 percent), with the last four games essentially dead rubber ties. Real Madrid won three of the four titles they contested and ended their season with 39 wins, eight draws and nine defeats in 56 matches.
As for the new season 2022/23 the numbers certainly speak themselves!
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