Laliga Santander is back underway after the world cup break, and one of the rounds of matches sees Real Madrid travel for the last time in 2022 to face Real Valladolid. The match takes place on Friday, 30th December, 2022, at the home ground of the host,Estadio Jose Zorrilla. Los Blancos will hope to close the gap on their fiercest rival, FC Barcelona, who sits comfortably top of the Spanish league with 37 points after equal number of games. Real Madrid are just two points shy of first place FC Barcelona ,thus they will hope to secure a victory against the home side in order to move one step closer towards defending their Laliga crown as they are defending champion.

The home team head into this match 13th on the log, with a negative goal difference and accruing just 17 points so far this term. They will be desperate to get something out of this game as they almost did on two occasions against Madrid last term where they pushed Madrid to their limits, seeing the visitors win by the narrowest of margins last season. In matches as this one, squad depth, resilience and decisiveness has a lot of role to play if any of either teams hopes to go home with the match points.

Real Madrid was excellent last term as they went on to win the league. More so, this term, they are pretty much in the title race after sitting second after 14 games with a game in hand. The visitors have lost just once in LaLiga this term heading into this match, thus, we expect them to secure the win against a side they did the double against last season. The visitors will have a pool of scintillating football stars to pick from once again when they travel on the road, and they have a boost in Karim Benzema who has returned to full fitness after a disappointing world cup outing that was marred by injury.

The home team Valladolid,has a weak defense line who has let in a huge number of goals this term to leave them with a negative goal difference. This porosity at the back end of the pitch presents the perfect avenue for the visitors to unleash their attacking prowess as they have a frontline pool of attacking players who cannot just stop scoring.

We believe Real Madrid are superior against the minnows as they have not lost against the home team for as far back as 2012, in ten consecutive meetings.

In light of this, we are backing Real to outwit the home team once again in what will be a difficult tie as was evident over two legs last term. Real Madrid has shown their ability in difficult situations on numerous occasions.

We believe this match presents the perfect situation for Real Madrid to make a statement to the rest of the league by securing the win at the end of the match.

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西甲桑坦德在世界杯假期后重新开始，其中一轮比赛是皇马在2022年最后一次客场对阵皇家巴利亚多利德。比赛将于2022年12月30日(周五)在东道主何塞-索瑞拉球场举行。白衣军团希望缩小与劲敌巴萨之间的差距，巴萨在同等场次后以37分稳居西甲榜首。皇家马德里距离第一名巴塞罗那仅差两分，因此他们希望在对阵主场的比赛中取得一场胜利，以便在卫冕西甲冠军的道路上更进一步。

主队在本场比赛中排名第13位，净胜球为负，本赛季迄今为止仅积17分。他们将不顾一切地从这场比赛中获得一些东西，因为他们几乎在上赛季对阵马德里的两次比赛中都做到了，他们把马德里逼到了极限，看到客队上赛季以最微弱的优势获胜。在这样的比赛中，如果任何一支球队想要带着赛点回家，球队的深度、韧性和决断力都有很大的作用。

皇马上个赛季表现出色，他们最终赢得了联赛冠军。更重要的是，本赛季，他们在少赛一场的14场比赛后排名第二，基本上已经进入了冠军争夺战。客队本赛季在西甲联赛中只输过一场比赛，因此，我们希望他们能在对阵上赛季双冠王的球队时取得胜利。客队将在客场再次拥有一大批才华横溢的足球明星，他们有卡里姆·本泽马(Karim Benzema)的帮助，他在世界杯上的表现令人失望，因伤受伤，现在已经完全康复。

主队巴利亚多利德防线薄弱，本赛季失球数量巨大，净胜球为负。球场后端的这种多孔性为客队提供了一个释放他们进攻能力的完美途径，因为他们有一个不能停止进球的锋线球员池。

我们相信皇马在面对这支小鱼队时更有优势，因为他们早在2012年就连续10次对阵主队，没有输过球。

有鉴于此，我们支持皇马再次智胜主队，这将是一场艰难的比赛，就像上赛季的两回合比赛一样。皇马已经在很多场合展示了他们在困难情况下的能力。

我们相信这场比赛为皇马提供了一个完美的局面，通过在比赛结束时确保胜利来向联赛其他球队发表声明。