Alejandro Jiménez

Left Wingback - Real Madrid U20
21 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alejandro Jiménez

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The Real Madrid Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

4 goals for Yan Diomandé

The match ball belongs to Yan Diomandé, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

Yan Diomandé sends Real Madrid through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Yan Diomandé obliged against Castellón. 7‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Real Madrid.

Squad

Alejandro Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

No mercy from Real Madrid

Alavés will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Real Madrid were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

A brace, and Kylian Mbappé takes the afternoon — 8.54

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kylian Mbappé provided it, and the 8.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

The view from the top for Real Madrid

31 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Player ratings

Endrick, 20, steals the show — 8.53

Marked 8.53 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Real Madrid make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Real Madrid have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Federico Valverde 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.

In brief

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The Real Madrid Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Real Madrid silence Barcelona

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2‑0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alejandro Jiménez

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Real Madrid lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Jude Bellingham wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Real Madrid hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Vinícius Júnior

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Real Madrid have their man.

Squad

Words exchanged at Real Madrid

Bernardo Silva and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Vinícius Júnior is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

The dugout

Kylian Mbappé gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kylian Mbappé is on it.

Squad

Francisco Gutiérrez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco Gutiérrez and Real Madrid agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Real Madrid pick somebody else ahead of Carlos Espí

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief