Kylian Mbappé did what he did not do in La Liga within the 2025/26 season and scored a hat-trick to safe Actual Madrid a 4-1 win over Actual Sociedad within the first league sport to be performed on the Bernabéu this season.
11 – Video games unbeaten on the Bernabéu for José Mourinho, with a 4,835 day break
Practically 5,000 days after he final stood on the touchline of the Bernabéu, José Mourinho returned. Mourinho’s final sport on the Bernabéu, when the stadium seemed very totally different, was a 4-2 win over Osasuna on June 1st, 2013, with José Callejón scoring the final aim of his first reign. It was a tenth successive win on the Bernabéu, beating Málaga, Actual Valladolid, Borussia Dortmund, Actual Betis, Levante, Galatasaray, Actual Mallorca and Barcelona within the course of. The final time Mourinho did not win on the Bernabéu within the Actual Madrid dugout was a 1-1 draw with Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United within the first leg final 16 of the UEFA Champions League on February thirteenth, 2013.
10 – Unbeaten for Actual Madrid, with out a win for Actual Sociedad
Regardless of the struggles of final season, it ended strongly with a run of eight video games with out defeat, and Actual Madrid have began this season in the identical approach, with two wins to increase the unbeaten run in La Liga to 10 matches for Los Blancos. Nonetheless, context issues. Actual Sociedad are a powerful facet, however are in a poor run of type. Their solely win since April 4th was a penalty shoot-out win over Atlético Madrid within the Copa del Rey last, and a 1-0 loss to Actual Betis on the weekend to begin the season was their ninth sport in a row with out a win within the league.
10 – Targets in opposition to Actual Sociedad for Kylian Mbappé
By opening his account for the season with a hat-trick, Kylian Mbappé added three extra objectives to the rely in opposition to considered one of his favorite opponents in Spain. In doing so, he has taken solely 24 photographs in opposition to La Actual, that means his conversion charge in opposition to the Basque facet sits at an astonishing 42% with greater than two in each 5 makes an attempt resulting in a aim. His total tally of 9 is second solely to Barcelona, in opposition to whom he has scored 12 objectives. Maybe extra importantly, it additionally marks 89 objectives for Actual Madrid, placing him into the highest 25 all-time goalscorers for the membership and surpassing Luis Regueiro from the early Thirties.
2 – Assists for Jude Bellingham, to Mbappé and Vini in the identical sport for the primary time
With a lot discuss in latest weeks surrounding how Mourinho will get essentially the most out of his three celebrity attackers, seeing one help the opposite two within the first house sport of the season will ship the coach house joyful. The England worldwide solely recorded 4 assists within the league final season and is already at half that quantity, recording two assists in the identical sport since he did so twice in three days in January 2025. It’s the fourth time he has achieved the feat for Actual Madrid and the primary to his celebrity teammates in the identical sport.
1st – Actual Madrid’s place within the league desk after two video games
For the primary time since twenty eighth November 2025, Actual Madrid fall asleep because the leaders of La Liga. It comes after solely two video games, with Los Blancos narrowly forward of Sevilla and Actual Betis on aim distinction as the one three sides to have one each of their video games performed so far. Barcelona might overtake them, however solely by beating Athletic Membership on the Spotify Camp Nou on Thursday night time.
51-49 – The possession cut up
Whereas the scoreline and the movement of the sport level in direction of whole dominance from Actual Madrid, in true Mourinho style, the sport was extra about being deadly in possession moderately than dominating the ball. Actual Madrid had solely 2% extra possession than their rivals and recorded simply 30 extra accomplished passes (531 vs 501), however produced double the variety of photographs (20 vs 10) and greater than thrice the variety of touches within the opposition field (46 vs 15). It wasn’t about how a lot of the ball Actual Madrid had, however what they did with it that counted.
