Real face an acid test in the La Liga title race, when they welcome an in-form Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu

Despite sitting top of LaLiga, reigning champions Real Madrid may feel like they have a lot to prove when they host Atletico Madrid on Saturday with their in-form city rivals eager to seize the momentum in the title race and leapfrog them in the table.

There cannot be too many better seasons in which to secure a ticket to the Madrid derby. A rare beast is the three-horse title race, and still more so in La Liga, but with just four point