Real Madrid opened the scoring against Espanyol with a great goal by Vinicius. 'Los Blancos' moved the ball on the edge of the box and an inspired Aurelien Tchouameni played a brilliant through ball to the Brazilian and he hit into the far corner to make it 0-1.
Real Madrid did not take long to open the scoring at the RCDE Stadium. After a quiet start, Madrid took the lead with their first shot.
The away side were the better team from the beginning and their initial domination paid off after just 12 minutes.
Ancelotti's men had the ball on the edge of the box and Aurelien Tchouameni, who shone in the Celta game, shown again why Madrid paid 100 million euros for him.
The Frenchman played a tremendous pass to Vinicius with the outside of his foot and the number 20 just had to place the ball with the inside of his right foot into the far corner to give Madrid the lead.