Jude Bellingham: Real Madrid’s leader, and it shows. He is in superb physical condition, and it was Bellingham who opened the scoring, running from outside the box and dribbling past a string of opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Six minutes later, he pounced on a rebound off the Malaga goalkeeper following an Mbappe shot and tried to head it home. A defender managed to clear the ball, but it cannoned off the goalkeeper and rolled into the net, putting Real Madrid 2-0 up.<\/p>\n
Bellingham nearly grabbed his second at the start of the second half, only to see his shot strike the post.<\/p>\n
Vinicius Junior: The least inspired of the attackers in the first half, yet he showed great defensive commitment, covering behind Cucurella on several occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Time and again he tried in the second half, but his final pass was wildly imprecise. In the end, after all those attempts, he handed Guler a gift for the goal.<\/p>\n
Mbappe: When he hits top speed, no one can stop him. He pressed with real energy and created almost every Real Madrid threat, save for Bellingham’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His goal came after a precise pass from Arnold, finished off with the ease only the best players possess. That takes his tally to 4 goals this season, keeping him top of the competition’s scoring charts.<\/p>\n
Diomande: Flashes of his potential, and he came close to setting up Mbappe with the last chance of the match.<\/p>\n
Bernardo Silva: He kept the team ticking over as they played the ball out from the back.<\/p>\n
Guler: He scored the final goal after a wonderful, decisive pass from Vinicius Junior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham: Real Madrid’s leader, and it shows. He is in superb physical condition, and it was Bellingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[418,1414,85,82,2457,83,29113],"class_list":["post-77987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-features","tag-j-mourinho","tag-laliga","tag-madrid","tag-malaga","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-vs-malaga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}