Rodrygo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Real Madrid
25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 2 Transfers Relations Events 36 Awards 1 Matches History

Marked for Rodrygo

12 Edition

The Real Madrid Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match17 Oct 2026

Still nobody has beaten Real Madrid

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Kylian Mbappé in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Real Madrid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A move Reiss Elliott-Parris would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Reiss Elliott-Parris is living that version at Real Madrid, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match17 Oct 2026

Real Madrid see off Espanyol

Three points for Real Madrid, 3‑2 the final word against Espanyol in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A late step up for Álvaro Valles

At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Match17 Oct 2026

Brahim Díaz at the heart of a fast Real Madrid start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Brahim Díaz in the middle of it, and Espanyol unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Marc Cucurella at his very best

Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Real Madrid.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

One of those days for Rodrygo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Brahim Díaz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Real Madrid Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

A brace, and Rodrygo takes the afternoon — 8.56

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rodrygo provided it, and the 8.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Real Madrid

Kylian Mbappé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match10 Oct 2026

Whatever happens, Real Madrid do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match10 Oct 2026

Rodrygo rescues a point for Real Madrid

It needed Rodrygo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Rayo Vallecano, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Álvaro Valles

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Marc Cucurella

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Rodrygo is off the mark for Real Madrid

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Dani Carvajal has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Real Madrid will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

The referee tires of Aurélien Tchouaméni

Fouls conceded: 5. Some of it was commitment and some of it was frustration, and the free-kick count did not distinguish between the two.

In brief