Just three games into the new 2016/17 season, Zinedine Zidane has already put Real Madrid where those within the club feel they belong: top of La Liga, looking down on their rivals.
While the team's start to the campaign in terms of performances has been by no means perfect, Los Blancos have had more than enough tactical and technical superiority to dispatch each of Real Sociedad, Celta Vigo and Osasuna in turn to sit clear in first place of early chasers Sevilla, Barcelona and Las Palmas of all teams.
It's a new position for Real Madrid to be in under Zidane, and a role within the league which brings a different type of pressure going into each game week—but in his relatively short time in charge, Zidane has brought a variety of traits to the team which will ensure they can cope with the pressure that being the chased, rather than the chasers, brings.