The stars finally line up above the White House. After a few weeks of running-in, Xabi Alonso's Real Madrid offered a real offensive recital to expand Levante on his lawn (1-4). An evening illuminated by its two jewels, Vinicius and Kylian Mbappé, finally connected and absolutely devastating. This most successful demonstration of the season, is the best of messages sent to Atlético a few days before a derby that promises to be boiling.
However, in a new daring tactical system with three defenders, Real took almost twenty minutes to find its marks. Twenty minutes when a levante without complex could have opened the scoring on two very frank occasions in the surface of Courtois. We thought we saw a hesitant, disorganized Real. But the Valencian club has allowed its chance to pass, and ended up waking up a monster that only asked to get out of its torpor.
Twenty minutes of doubt, an hour of recital
And this talented monster first embodied in the person of Vinicius Junior. The Brazilian, after a halftone start to the season where we measured his mood gestures more than his genius strokes, chose the Ciutat of Valencia to set the record straight. From an anthology goal, a strike from the outside of the right, pure and rolled foot, he unlocked the meeting and released his team (around the 30th). Released, Real then unrolled, and the young Argentinian prodigy Franco Mastanuono, from a powerful shot in your skylight, scored his very first goal for the club just before the break.
Levante's goal on the return from the locker room, signed by the powerful Etta Eyong, was only a straw fire, a brief start of pride quickly extinguished by the chief predator. If he had been relatively discreet until then, Kylian Mbappé has decided to close the debates with clinical cruelty. First by provoking and transforming a penalty of a panenka full of composure and insurance (around the 65th). Then, two minutes later, served by an inspired Arda Güler, he eliminated the goalkeeper with a simple kidney stroke to push the ball in the empty goal. In 120 seconds, the case was folded.
The merengue machine is launched
This victory is that of Xabi Alonso, whose tactical experiments end up paying, but also and above all that of his stars who responded. Vinicius, who even finished with the captain's armband, found his genius and his smile. Kylian Mbappé, with this double, is already carrying his total to nine goals this season. And in the middle, the young mastanuono asserts himself as a new strike force. Real is a winning machine, and it starts to add the way.
With a perfect assessment, Real Madrid will appear in front of its neighbor from Atlético with maximum confidence and an offensive arsenal that is cold in the back. The liga is warned: the stars are well aligned above the Bernabéu, and this Real Madrid version 2025-2026 is very, very afraid.
