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Real Madrid began their 2025/26 UEFA Champions League campaign with a victory as they overcame French side Olympique Marseille with a 2-1 win at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. Timothy Weah gave the visitors the lead 22 minutes in, but Kylian Mbappé leveled the scoreline seven minutes after and scored a winner on 81 minutes to…

On this Members-only episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast, Lucas discusses Real Madrid’s 2-1 win against Marseille. Trent injury Güler Tchouameni shines What now that Jude and Camavinga are back? Vinicius CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS Join our Real Madrid Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/rTD2PmE26f Managing Madrid is a hub for all Madridistas with updated news, op-eds, tactical…

Real Madrid began their UEFA Champions League campaign of 2025-26 with a 2–1 win over Marseille at the Santiago Bernabéu. Timothy Weah opened the scoring for the visitors. Kylian Mbappé equalised from the penalty spot before adding another from 12 yards in the second half to secure Xabi Alonso’s first European victory as Madrid manager….

Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso addressed the media after the 2-1 Champions League win over Olympique Marseille. He evaluated the performance by saying that, “we’re growing, the players feel that we can carry out what we talk about, we have very good phases in the matches, perhaps we lack a bit of continuity, but we’re…

Real Madrid have published their starting lineup for the upcoming match against Marseille in the Champions League. Real Madrid starting XI: Courtois; Trent, Militao, Huijsen, Carreras; Tchouaméni, Valverde, Güler; Rodrygo, Mastantuono, Mbappe. Olympique Marseille starting XI (TBC): Rulli, Murillo, Pavard, Balerdi, Medina, Weah, Gomes, Hojbjerg, Gomes, Kondogbia, Aubameyang, Greenwood. Mastantuono makes his Champions League debut…

Olympique de Marseille manager Roberto De Zerbi addressed the media at the Santiago Bernabéu on the eve of his team’s Champions League opener against Real Madrid. “We always prefer to play at home, but coming to Madrid is a source of pride,” De Zerbi said. “Being in the Champions League makes us very proud, and…

Real Madrid have published their squad list for Tuesday’s match against Olympique Marseille in the Champions League. Jude Bellingham has recovered from shoulder surgery and is back with the team, and so is Eduardo Camavinga. REAL MADRID SQUAD:Goalkeepers: Courtois, Lunin and Fran González.Defenders: Carvajal, Militão, Alaba, Trent, Asencio, Á. Carreras, Fran García and Huijsen. Midfielders: Bellingham, Camavinga, Valverde,…

Ahead of Xabi Alonso’s first UEFA Champions League game as coach of Real Madrid, the manager spoke to the media before the tie with Olympique Marseille. Alonso spoke in particular about Kylian Mbappé, saying that, “the Club World Cup was light for Kylian because of gastroenteritis. We were getting to know each other. Kylian really…

UEFA have appointed Bosnian referee Irfan Peljto as the man in charge of Tuesday’s match between Real Madrid and Olympique Marseille, which will be the first European game of the season for both teams. Per Realmadrid.comIrfan Peljto will referee the game between Real Madrid and Olympique de Marseille, on matchday one of the Champions League, which will…