📏 Form Guide

Real Madrid

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Real Madrid are hoping to win again following the 1-2 La Liga victory over Villarreal.

In that match, Real Madrid had 54% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Real Madrid was Kylian Mbappé (17', 23'). At the other end, Villarreal had 23 shots on goal with 10 of them on target. Juan Foyth (7') scored for Villarreal.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Real Madrid haven’t conceded. In fact, Real Madrid have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 6 goals during that time.

Coming into this clash, Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 7 home league matches.

Leganés

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Real Betis in La Liga competition, Leganés will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Leganés had 35% possession and 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Leganés was Dani Raba (29', 44'). Real Betis had 21 shots on goal with 6 on target. Isco (64'), Cédric Bakambu (78') and Cucho Hernández (82') scored for Real Betis.

Indicating their appetite for eventful encounters, we’ve seen goals 20 times in the last six matches in which Leganés have played, yielding a mean average of 3.33 goals for each clash. Opposition teams have got 13 of these goals. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, though.

Going into this contest, Leganés are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes going back to 16/01/2019 shows us that Real Madrid have won 3 of them & Leganés 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

A combined sum of 20 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 14 for Los Blancos and 6 for Leganés. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

🗞️ Team News: Real Madrid

Ferland Mendy (Muscle injury), Jesús Vallejo (Muscle injury), Dani Ceballos (Muscle injury), Éder Militão (Cruciate ligament tear) and Daniel Carvajal (Cruciate ligament tear) are not available for Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti.

It looks as if Los Blancos will possibly make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation with Andriy Lunin, Lucas Vazquez, Raul Asencio, Antonio Ruediger, Francisco Garcia, Luka Modric, Eduardo Camavinga, Arda Guler, Jude Bellingham, Brahim Diaz and Kylian Mbappe.

ℹ️ Team News: Leganés

Leganés boss Borja Jiménez has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Enric Franquesa (Cruciate ligament injury) and Borna Barisic (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be playing here.

We reckon that Leganés seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Marko Dmitrovic, Valentin Rosier, Sergio Gonzalez, Matija Nastasic, Javier Hernandez, Yvan Neyou Noupa, Renato Tapia, Juan Cruz, Daniel Raba, Oscar Rodriguez and Diego Garcia.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Real Madrid will probably have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

At the other end, Leganés may well find it hard to get shooting opportunities but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be being dangerous for periods.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 3-1 margin for Real Madrid by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Victor Martins, 19:02 29/03/2025