3 reasons why Real Madrid beat Leganes

#2 Liberated Bale and Benzema run riot

Benzema looks sharp

In the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema look much more central to all of Real's plans going forward and they're relishing their time in the limelight.

Bale is all ready to fill the shoes of the departed and opened the scoring with a well struck volley that, albeit, went in owing to a stroke of luck. The Welshman was menacing throughout. His forays down the flanks often looked like violent conquests and perhaps the most intimidating part was that he looked like he was going to take his opponents for a ride every time.

Karim Benzema, who used to play second fiddle to Ronaldo, is now the team's main striker once again and he is showing us why he belongs at the club. He seems to have put that summer vacation to good use and looks sharp and ready to go back to being the player that he was.

He was wandering around the attacking third, contributing to build up play and when the opportunity arrived, he cleared his path by sending the Leganes defenders for takeaways and found the net twice.