Real Madrid go into tonight's La Liga clash with Villarreal on the verge of creating Spanish football history.
Zinedine Zidane's men are one win away from a record seventeen consecutive league victories, a run which started at the tail end of last season with a 3-1 win over Levante.
From that date Madrid went on to record a twelve game winning run as they pushed eventual champions Barcelona all the way in an enthralling title race.
And they have picked up where they left off at the start of this season with four successive wins over Real Sociedad, Celta Viga, Osasuna and Espanyol to storm to the start of the table.
Villarreal have themselves started the season in moderately impressive form with two wins and two draws so far from their four games. The Yellow Submarine saw Eric Bailly and Denis Suarez depart to Manchester United and Barca during the summer but they have taken points off Madrid in each of the last three seasons.
Madrid's are currently level with arch rivals Barcelona with sixteen consecutive wins, a feat they achieved under Pep Guardiola in the 2010/11 season. That run was halted by Sporting Gijon in a 1-1 draw.
Were Madrid to win tonight and create a new La Liga record, they would still have some way to go to catch Benfica who hold the record for consecutive victories in post war football with 29 wins in a row between the 1971/72 and 1972/73 seasons.
Celtic completed 25 games without dropping points on their way to winning the league in 2003/04 under Martin O'Neill scoring 86 goals along the way before a draw with Motherwell ended the remarkable sequence.
