Zidane certain Real Madrid will get better

Zinedine Zidane has confidence Real Madrid will continue to improve after grabbing an entertaining 3-2 victory over struggling Malaga in LaLiga.

A thrilling encounter at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday saw the champions lose the lead twice before ultimately prevailing when Cristiano Ronaldo scored the rebound from his own missed penalty 14 minutes from time.

Madrid's triumph was far from convincing, but Zidane feels they are on the right track after winning three and drawing one of their last four matches across all competitions.

It was a timely result with Madrid's LaLiga title rivals Valencia and Barcelona set to do battle at Mestalla on Sunday and Zidane has his sights set on a consistent run of form.

"In this game we added three points, but for sure we will make things better," he said after a match in which Karim Benzema and Casemiro netted headers.

"What I would like to do now is make three, four, five, six, seven good games in a row, but we are on schedule. 

"We started the game well and scored the first goal quickly, which is important. But everything changed and the second half was very difficult.

"When teams come here, they play for their lives but we like to play here at home.

"We have to be positive because we have won three points. We are happy with the result even though there were other things that were not as we wanted."