Real Madrid face a September pile-up: five matches in 20 days, four in La Liga and one in the Champions League. It’s an early examination of whether Jose Mourinho’s side can keep their perfect start intact.\n<\/p>\n
Los Blancos closed August with nine points from nine, beating Espanyol 2-1, Real Sociedad 4-1 and Malaga 4-0. They scored 10 goals and conceded just two.\n<\/p>\n
The month opens at the La Cartuja stadium against Real Betis on Friday 4 September. Four days later they welcome Inter Milan to the Santiago Bernabeu to launch their Champions League campaign on Tuesday 8 September.\n<\/p>\n
Rayo Vallecano visit the Bernabeu on Saturday 12 September, Real Madrid’s second home game of the month.\n<\/p>\n
Three days on, the Royal Club head to the Martinez Valero to face Elche on Tuesday 15 September, before their toughest test of the lot against Atletico Madrid.\n<\/p>\n
The Madrid derby kicks off at a quarter past four in the afternoon (a quarter past two GMT) on Sunday 20 September at the Wanda Metropolitano. It marks Real Madrid’s last outing before the international break.\n<\/p>\n
Physically and tactically, the schedule bites. Real play three of the five away from home and only two at the Bernabeu, with a Champions League tie wedged between two league games. Mourinho must nurse his players and ration their minutes with care.\n<\/p>\n
Once the Atletico clash is done, the international break hands Real Madrid a breather. They won’t return to action until the weekend of 10 and 11 October, when Villarreal come to the Santiago Bernabeu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid face a September pile-up: five matches in 20 days, four in La Liga and one in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[179,187,871,2009,85,82,875,1139,1487,83,29491],"class_list":["post-78334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-elche","tag-inter","tag-laliga","tag-madrid","tag-rayo-vallecano","tag-real-betis","tag-real-betis-vs-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-vs-inter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78334","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=78334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}