What Gareth Bale is doing differently this season is the amount of times he comes through the middle. To get a player who is ostensibly a wide man to realise he can go through the middle of teams and score means that he has another side to his game. He has learnt that if he comes in from wide, he has more area to play in, he can run at centre-backs and find gaps. Besides his fantastic pace, ability to go past people and send in dangerous crosses he is now finding areas where he has more space and more time, and he can destroy teams.