The Real Madrid Sentinel
Squad9 Nov 2026
Antonio Rüdiger breaks a bone — 80 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match4 Nov 2026
Arda Güler sends Real Madrid through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Arda Güler obliged against Ceuta. 4‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Real Madrid.
Match9 Nov 2026
Real Madrid refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Vinícius Júnior leads the rout of Alavés
4‑0, and Vinícius Júnior took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Real Madrid tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Both of them Vinícius Júnior's — 8.59
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Arda Güler scores twice — 8.44
Two goals and a mark of 8.44 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ibrahima Konaté goes up and wins it — 7.96
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.96 for the rest of it.
Market9 Nov 2026
Jude Bellingham wants more than Real Madrid are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad9 Nov 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.
In brief
- Match Real Madrid cannot stop winning
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Moise Kean
- Squad Defences have started doubling up on Vinícius Júnior