The only game tomorrow is Real Madrid - Athletic Bilbao. The reason is that this is the missing game of both teams and it is scheduled for tomorrow. Real Madrid seem like the absolute favourite team here without doubt. They have had a great performance for a long time period. And they defeated one of their hardest opponents, Sevilla in their last game. But Athletic Bilbao are not in a similar condition. They haven't won a game for 5 weeks. They are out-of-form now and I think Real Madrid will be the winner here.
Real Madrid will try to get a max point from this match and try to collect as many points as possible when Atletico Madrid and Barcelona are in bad period. In reality Real Madrid don't have so much bigger strength and quality than other clubs in this season. What they have is more experienced players and have better results so far. They are the most impressive and most stable clubs in La Liga so far.
Your analysis is true and Real Madrid will be on fire if they can not get 3 points from Bilbao.
A great opportunity for Real Madrid to strengthen their lead. I think that Real Madrid should win today, but the victory is unlikely to be easy and we are unlikely to see many goals - judging by the statistics, Athletic has the best defense in the championship at the moment. They conceded only 10 goals in 14 matches. We can say that today Real will have an exam on the ability to pass a strong defense.
Benzema with his angry from Ballon d'Or will play aggressively in this match and can destroy Bilbao goal. Benzema and Lewandowsky are some of unlucky players who have talent, outstanding performance in their career but because of they are playing in a same era of Ronaldo and Messi, their talent are not rewarded by big personal titles like Ballon d'Or.
Mbappe is different because he is young and he will reach to his best when Messi and Ronaldo will be in last seasons of their career. Mbappe and Haaland will have more chance to win Ballon d'Or than Lewandowski and Benzema but it does not mean that are better players.