Real Madrid got their 20thwin of the season on Sunday when they got a 2-0 win over relegation-haunted Elche.
The first half was tight as the home team matched the league leaders all the wayand did not give any roomfor fast breaks with two banks of four maintained whenever they were out of possession.
Real came into the match knowing that a win would stretch their lead atop thetable to four points after Barcelona were surprisingly beaten at home on Saturday 1-0 by Malaga.
And it was Ronaldo who set up the first goal though fortuitously as hiscut back was cleared but it hit the goalkeeper and fell nicely into Karim Benzema’s path for an easy tap in and that was on 56 minutes.
And having played a Champions League game away in Germany during the week, Madrid were always going to take it easy especially in the second half and they maintained their shape making sure to press with the strikers.
Ronaldo got the second –and the insurance goal with a bullet header in the69th minute after good work down the left flank by Isco, whose measured left-foot shoot was pin-point for Ronaldo to score his 29th league goal of the season.
New recruit, Lucas Silva started his first La Liga game and he did nicely in the middle with Toni Kroos but was replaced by Asier Illaramendi in the 84th minute.
Ancelotti then took off Isco and gave Alvaro Arbeloa the last three minutes of the encounter to make it three consecutive wins and most especially threeconsecutive clean sheets ahead of the second El Clasico in three weeks.