Real Racing Club de Santander 0-3 Real Madrid CF: Primera Division Match Report, 1 November 2026

Real Madrid needed one half at El Sardinero. Real Racing Club de Santander 0-3 Real Madrid CF was the score at the interval and the score at the end, and Racing's unbeaten home record was gone.

That home record was the reason this was more than a formality on paper. The newly promoted side came in fifteenth on eleven points from ten games, with a goal difference of minus eleven, and every one of those points had been won in Santander: three wins and two draws from five, at least two goals scored in each, including a 2-1 over Espanyol the week before. Away from home the picture was the reverse: five defeats from five, eighteen goals conceded, among them 2-7 at Barcelona and 0-5 at Celta.

Real Madrid were third on twenty-four points from ten, with twenty-five goals scored and ten conceded. Their last three results were 1-0 against Villarreal, 4-1 against Sevilla and 2-1 at Barcelona the previous weekend. Their away record — three wins and two defeats before this — was the weaker half of their season, and the only part of it that left room for an upset.

Forty-five minutes answered that, and the second half had little left to decide. For Racing it was the first home league match this season in which they failed to score. It was also the first league meeting between the clubs on record.

We made no call on this one; the site had gone quiet at the turn of the month and stayed that way until after the weekend.

Madrid moved to twenty-seven points from eleven matches, nine wins and two defeats, with a goal difference of plus eighteen. That is four straight league wins since the 1-2 at Atlético in September, and an away record of four wins from six. They are scoring faster than last season, too: twenty-eight goals in eleven, against seventy-seven in thirty-eight. They started the day third and still have not drawn a league match all season: eleven played, nine won, two lost, nothing in between. The clean sheet was only their third of the season, the one modest figure in that record.

Racing stay on eleven points from eleven, with a goal difference of minus fourteen. It was the fourth time this season they have conceded three or more, and the first at home. The home record that carried them now reads three wins, two draws and one defeat from six, and away from home they still have no points and four goals from five matches. A point a game is a workable rate for a promoted side; twenty-nine goals conceded in eleven matches is not.