Just hours before the match, Real Madrid's official line up against Rayo Vallecano

Real Madrid plays a crucial match today in the fight for the leadership of the Spanish league. The merengue team is currently in second place behind Girona, who won yesterday. Today, Real Madrid faces Rayo Vallecano at the Santiago Bernabeu, a team that is in eighth place in the standings.

This is the official lineup of Real Madrid and Rayo Vallecano for the match: Kepa; Carvajal, Rüdiger, Alaba, Fran García; Valverde, Camavinga, Kroos; Bellingham; Joselu, Vinícius. For its part, Rayo Vallecano will come out to play with this: Dimitrievski; Balliu, Aridane, Lejeune, Pacha Espino; Óscar Valentín, Pathé Ciss, Trejo; Isi, Raúl de Tomás, Álvaro García.

Yesterday, FC Barcelona achieved an agonizing victory against Real Sociedad in a match in which it did not deserve it. It was the Basque team that took the initiative and had the clearest situations, but in the end a controversial and agonizing goal that had to be checked by Ronald Araujo's VAR gave the three golden points to those led by Xavi Hernández.

How's La Liga standings?

At the top of the rankings is Girona with 31 points thanks to the 4-2 victory against Osasuna. Their second team is Real Madrid, which has 28 points and one less game that they will catch up today when they host Rayo Vallecano. Behind FC Barcelona, third, comes Atlético de Madrid, which lost to Las Palmas but has 25 points and one game less with Sevilla