Real Madrid Beat Leipzig 4-1 to Stay Perfect in the Champions League

Real Madrid beat RB Leipzig 4-1 on Wednesday night, and they have now won every Champions League match they have played this season.

The game was a league phase tie. That is the opening stage of the competition, where each club plays a set of matches against different opponents and collects points. The results across those matches decide who moves on to the knockout rounds, so every win counts for more than just three points on the night.

The match was played at the Bernabéu, Real's home stadium in Madrid, and it kicked off at 19:00 UTC. UEFA's official match page describes it as Real Madrid's most dominant performance of the season. It also notes that Real conceded a goal late on, though that did not change the result.

One of the evening's stories was Bernardo Silva. The midfielder scored his first goal for Real since joining from Manchester City in the summer. It is a moment that marks how quickly he has settled into the squad. He made his debut in August, coming on after half-time in a win over Ferencvaros and playing 48 minutes.

Silva is no stranger to big European nights. In March, when he was still at City, he blocked a goal-bound shot with his elbow on the goal line during a Champions League last-16 second leg against Real. The referee checked the incident on VAR, the video assistant referee who reviews key moments on a screen, before play carried on. Now he wears the white shirt, and his goal came in front of his new home crowd.

Silva also had a busy summer on the international stage. He played for Portugal in their 2-1 win over Croatia in July, a result that sent Portugal into the Round of 16 of the World Cup. For a midfielder, moving clubs and playing in the biggest tournaments in the same few months is a lot to handle.

For Leipzig, the defeat leaves them with work to do in a competition where a single bad night can change the picture. For Real, the win keeps a clean record intact at the start of a long campaign. Neither story is finished. The league phase has plenty of matches left, and every one of them will add to the table.

What stands out most is the simple thing a fan would notice from the stands: Real scored four, Leipzig scored one, and a new signing got on the scoresheet.