The situation
Madrid has gotten used to writing so many pages in the history books that some of its achievements, if they don’t go unnoticed, do go unnoticed. Now Ancelotti’s team (another man accustomed to breaking records quietly and who came in against RB Leipzig in the top-5 of coaches with the most games in the club’s history) is heading for another record: scoring the best start to the season for the 120 years of Madridista history . The current League and Champions League champions got their eighth consecutive victory against Leipzig at the start of the campaign. It is already his third-best start and he is three more wins away from equaling his two best starts ever, when he posted 11 wins without fail to start the 1961-62 and 1968-69 seasons.. A challenge from another century. More than half a century later, the best streak that Madrid had achieved at the opening of the course were the seven victories that Pellegrini’s Madrid celebrated in 2009-10 . Sevilla, on matchday six of the League, cut the white streak at Pizjuán (2-1). The Whites also achieved seven wins in a row in the 1916-17, 1931-32 and 1934-35 seasons, then with many matches corresponding to regional championships. Ancelotti’s Madrid has already left all of them behind. They only have the two records of Miguel Muñoz ahead of them . The first obstacle that Madrid has to continue adding wins in pursuit of breaking that record is Atlético in the derby. A rival against which the Whites have won three of their last five clashes, but with a statistic that, seen from a greater perspective, worsens: Madrid has only won four of the last 13 derbies. Two weeks later, after the national team break, Osasuna will arrive at the Bernabéu first and then Shakhtar in the Champions League. Madrid can seal the record against Getafe at the Coliseum on October 8. At this start to the season, the Whites have won the European Super Cup against Eintracht, Almería, Celta, Espanyol, Betis and Mallorca in the League and Celtic and Leipzig in the Champions League.
Madrid’s streaks in the 60s
The 1960s were prolific in terms of titles for the white team, which won eight league titles in nine seasons under the guidance of the legendary Madrid coach. The second wound of that successful cycle was soon on track in 1961-62 . Madrid won its first eight league games and three of the European Cup. The streak was broken by Real Oviedo on matchday nine in the league with a 1-0 win at the Tartiere. That loss prevented a streak that could have been even longer, as another six wins in a row followed. That Madrid finished the first round of the championship (still with 16 participating teams) with 13 victories and only two defeats ,