2026/2027 season

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Real Madrid

Head coach: José Mourinho · 4-2-3-1

Rank

4th

Pts

18

P

8

Form

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The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings

10/10

Attack

9/10

Defence

6/10

Form

7/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:Very high

4th with 18 pts from 8 matches: 6 wins, 0 draws, 2 defeats.

19 goals scored, 8 conceded.

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How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches

Wvs Villarreal CF (H) · 1-0

Lvs Club Atlético de Madrid (A) · 1-2

Wvs Elche CF (A) · 3-2

Wvs Rayo Vallecano de Madrid (H) · 4-1

Lvs Real Betis Balompié (A) · 0-1

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19 scored / 8 conceded over 8 matches played

Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days

Home form

4W - 0D - 0L

Away form

2W - 0D - 2L

Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match

1.8

Goals conceded per match

1.2

At home

5 scored · 1 conceded in 2 matches

Away

4 scored · 5 conceded in 3 matches

Over 2.5 goals

3 of 5

Both teams score

3 of 5

Clean sheets

1 of 5

Failed to score

1 of 5

Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Real Madrid play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity

Preferred system

4-2-3-1

Philosophy

A rebuild “from the back” announced by Mourinho, with carefully worked defensive and offensive organisation and a 4-2-3-1 adopted as the reference structure from pre-season onwards (El Español, 19/08/2026).

Attacking strengths

9 points from 9 and 10 goals scored in 3 matchdays (Espanyol 1-2, Real Sociedad 4-1, Málaga 4-0), the best attack in LaLiga at this stage according to the official table of 31/08/2026.

Defensive solidity

2 goals conceded in 3 matches, the best defence in the league at this stage (official LaLiga table as of 31/08/2026), despite a centre-back pairing missing both Militão and Asencio.

Pressing

Not verified: no numerical pressing data (PPDA, recovery height) could be cross-checked over the first 3 matchdays. Mourinho has only publicly referred to work on both defensive AND offensive organisation (press conference of 29/08/2026).

Transitions

Not verified with figures. The profile of the squad (Vinícius, Mbappé, Diomande) and the setup described by the Spanish press (very advanced full-backs, a double pivot tasked with “cleaning up” transitions) suggest a team geared towards verticality, but this is press interpretation, not a statistical fact.

StrengthA perfect record (3/3), a favourable goals scored/conceded balance (10-2), squad depth claimed by Mourinho (“we have a strong squad with options”, 29/08/2026), and six new signings integrated, including Konaté, Cucurella, Dumfries and Bernardo Silva.

WeaknessA heavy and lasting injury list (Rodrygo and Mendy out long-term, Militão, Asencio and Tchouaméni managed case by case): the Madrid press points to limited depth in the central defensive axis. The defensive integration of the four forwards (Vinícius, Mbappé, Bellingham, Diomande) is presented as the main tactical work in progress — press analysis (El Español, 19/08/2026), not a statistical finding.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood

Squad confidence

Maximum in points terms: nine from nine, ten goals scored, two conceded, the best attack and the best defence in the league after three matchdays. José Mourinho has closed his first window with six arrivals and seven departures and is preparing for Betis “away” from the deadline-day rumours, in the phrase used by the EFE agency. The message remains deliberately taut, though: the Portuguese warned that they would have to be “at their maximum level” to win at La Cartuja. The treatment room, for its part, is not emptying: seven absentees at the 1 September restart, none of them in Friday's squad. The real test comes quickly, with Inter Milan at the Bernabéu on 8 September.

Coach / players / board relationship

Cloudless between Mourinho, appointed unanimously by the board on 11 June 2026 for three seasons, and a board that gave him the means he asked for. The club publicly announced the head coach's satisfaction at the end of a window with six signings and seven departures, and refused to reopen any deals in the final hours. Squad management nonetheless remains the latent friction point: with twenty-six players for twenty-five places, Thiago Pitarch had to be registered with Castilla. The club also had to deal with an off-pitch matter, Raúl Asencio's conviction for drink-driving, without commenting publicly. The official line remains institutional silence.

Mood with the supporters

Madridismo is savouring a return it had stopped expecting: nine points from three matchdays in Mourinho's first month, thirteen years after he left. On 1 September the club announced the date of Barcelona v Real Madrid, set for Sunday 25 October at 21:00, the first big fixture marked in the diary. The Champions League opener against Inter Milan, on 8 September at the Bernabéu, will be the first great European night of the Mourinho II era. The blot is judicial: Raúl Asencio's conviction for a road-safety offence, with a reading nearly four times the limit, went round the Spanish press on 2 September. The supporters, meanwhile, are mainly waiting to see whether Mourinho keeps his promise of a team rebuilt “from the back”.

Pressure on the head coach

Moderate, but of a particular kind: it is not about results, already perfect, but about man management. Twenty-six players for twenty-five registration places, around ten unused every weekend, four major forwards to accommodate: that is the task the Madrid press identifies as central. The treatment room, with seven absentees, paradoxically eases that problem in the short term and opens the door to four Castilla players as soon as Friday. The demand for the title is immediate given the investment made. Nothing, at this stage, weakens the head coach's position.

Club objectives

Winning back LaLiga and going all the way in the Champions League, after a window with a negative balance of more than €155m. September's schedule runs Betis at La Cartuja, Inter Milan at the Bernabéu on the 8th, then Rayo on the 12th and Elche on the 15th: four matches in eleven days that will force rotation. The club has already planned further ahead by announcing the date of the Clásico, 25 October at 21:00 at the Camp Nou. Mourinho, for his part, publicly emphasises defensive and attacking organisation rather than numerical targets. The rise of the Castilla youngsters, forced by the injury list, is also part of the de facto roadmap.

Recent internal tensions

Three flashpoints, none explosive at this stage. The first is managing playing time in a bloated squad, with the case of Endrick, who stayed despite substitute status, as its symbol. The second is administrative: Thiago Pitarch was registered with Castilla for lack of a place in the list of twenty-five. The third is off-pitch and judicial, with Raúl Asencio's conviction handed down on 19 August and revealed on 2 September, on which neither the player nor the club has commented publicly. The treatment room, finally, remains the most discussed subject: seven absentees at the restart, including Rodrygo, not expected until the start of 2027.

Absences

InjuredRodrygo — Cruciate ligament rupture: a long-term absence, the published bulletins diverging sharply on when he will return.

InjuredFerland Mendy — Tendon and ligament injury: unavailable, with widely diverging return estimates depending on the source.

InjuredÉder Militão — Thigh muscle injury, return hoped for around mid-September 2026.

InjuredRaúl Asencio — Muscle injury, return expected around the end of September 2026.

InjuredThiago Pitarch — Knee ligament sprain, return envisaged around mid-September 2026.

DoubtfulAurélien Tchouaméni — Muscle discomfort: his availability against Betis is not assured.

DoubtfulEndrick — Muscle discomfort; the Brazilian, back from a loan at Lyon, is doubtful for the restart.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Real Madrid — Sevilla FC

At homeSunday 18 October at 21:00Matchday 9

It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

Real Madrid - Sevilla FC: Contra la historia, las bajas y todos los gatos de MourinhoIt has been crossing the door of Santiago Bernabéu, a land that has been closed to the Sevillist interests for almost two decades. If one more wall was missing, the company is turning this time into a kind of triple mortal jump for the whole of Nervion, which at the unbearable slap of history now adds some weight loss in its ranks in the midst of the deafened white storm against the arbitral stage, the committees and LaLiga agitated by its greatest dialectic arete, José Mourinho. The test cannot be more cumbersome for a Sevilla that accumulates 19 official commitments without tasting the victory in Chamartin. Despite the overwhelming weight of the statistics and the terrible atmosphere that awaits Luis García Plaza in the capital tonight, the team clings to its arguments to support the faith. The party has to play it and this Seville has nothing to do with the last courses of zozobra and weapons delivered in advance. The tenderness and competitive solvency displayed by those of Nervión in their most demanding quotes to date, such as the one that has been released without going further in a splendid first part to the unbeatable leader, FC Barcelona, open up a grudge to optimism. In addition to this, the tidal of doubts that surrounds the Mourinho picture in its football one week from the Classic, a circumstance of which the white red dress is intended to take out a cut by appealing to the collective conviction and the character of a group that, as it has shown in the eight days disputed so far, refuses to surrender before time. However, the balance in the Bernabéu portrays a journey through the desert for the Sevillists that has continued since December 2008. After that 3-4 that led to the removal of German coach Bernd Schuster, the harvest of the Spanish in feudo merengue is summed up in a tearing 18-stroke bag and a single tie, in the course 2020-2021, during the Pandemic parenthesis in Valdebebas, when the troops of Julen Lopez-tegui caressed the feeza after taking advantage on two occasions thanks to the dianas of Fernando and Rakitic, finally neutralized by the riddles of Asensio and Hazard (2-2). If Madrid reaches the party with the trenches, it is also not that it is at its sweetest time with the arbitral collective. It still collides for Nervion the drip of Cordero Vega's decisions in the Ciutat of Valencia before the Levant that irritated the nervians, like the eight seconds pitied to Vlachosmos, punished with a corner against, the yellow sperm to Castrin or the injury of Miguel Sierra in which the collegiate did not even point out any lack. The glass of the Sevillist patience was spilled with the second yellow and Isaac's expulsion for celebrating his goal by sending the public to silence, rule at all disused, and the application of an eight-minute discount that lasted up to almost a quarter of an hour, added 'diabolical' in which Seville received up to two goals. "We took 70 minutes off in eight games. Every time we win, there are eight or ten minutes," he said in the press conference before the clash with Madrid, the Sevillist technician, Luis García Plaza. But the complaints of Seville are diluted in the white tsunami against the arbitrators, committees and the League itself. In the absence of football in the meringue picture, Mourinho is more Mourinho than ever and takes out all the artillery to prepare the ground and intimidate as far as they leave. In the Bernabéu, he felt as a shot the punishment of 4 games to Vinicius for his hair grip to Saliba and later protests. But what blew up the madridists was the time to communicate the punishment by Disciplina, just in the moments before the transcendent duel of Champions del Real Madrid before the AS Rome. Mourinho pulled the popular Portuguese saying 'hidden cat with a rabo de fora' (hidden cat with a slit tail) to turn all the arbitral gears of Spain upside down. "Did they have to do it when we were on our way to the stadium? It seems to me that the cat is no longer hidden. The cat goes for free, things are done without shame. He's going for free. Two hours before a game, a player from a Spanish team who has made three points for the prestige of Spanish football, does not seem normal. But it seems normal to me, because the cat is no longer hidden," the technician sentenced the committees very hard. At yesterday's press conference, he ironically added that "over the four parties, I am happy because I thought they would punish him more. I thought the hidden cats were gonna put a game in it or two more." He also took advantage of the white coach to "hold" Javier Tebas. Madrid asked for his resignation in a hard and extensive communication following statements by the President of LaLiga in which he compared the communication of the meringue club with that of Goebbels, leader of Nazi propaganda. "He only apologizes if his is a clinical case. If not, there is no justification or apology," said the coach born in Setúbal. A Mourinho who, as an extra spicy to the party, still does not forget one of the most frustrating chapters of his career, with the Sevilla FC in the middle. He still has his voracious criticism of the referee Anthony Taylor at the Final of the European League of 2023 in Budapest that Rome ended up losing to the Hispanians: "The referee seemed Spanish. We're going home dead for an injustice." As for the ounces, the Sevilla FC has the fall of the sanctioned Isaac Romero and loses for injury to Guridi and the very title Miguel Sierra, who will be out of combat several months after his shoulder injury. Alfon, Ejuke and Vargas are the alternatives of García Plaza for the granadino. Kochorashvili, for his part, has not been able to work normally during the week due to physical problems. If you don't get to the game, Peque, Manu Bueno and Nico Guillén emerge as the only options to replace the Georgian in the medular. Also considering that Stassin is not yet in the process of beginning, the Sevillist alignment would be that formed by Vlachodos; Churches, Castrin, Kike Salas, Suazo; Agoumé, Fofana, Kochorashvili; Alfon, Félix Correia and Robbie Ure. Real Madrid Courtois; Trent, Konaté, Huijsen, Cucurella; Arda Güler, Tchouameni; Valverde, Bellingham, Diomande; and Mbappé. Sevilla FC Vlachodos; Iglesias, Castrin, Kike Salas, Suazo; Agoumé, Fofana, Peque; Alfon, Félix Correia and Robbie Ure. Mateo Busquets Ferrer (Balear Committee). Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Time / TV 21.00 / Movistar LaLiga. As for the onces, the Sevilla has the fall of the sanctioned Isaac Romero and loses for injury Guridi and the very title Miguel Sierra, who will be out of combat several months after his shoulder injury. Alfon, Ejuke and Vargas are the alternatives of García Plaza for the granadino. Kochorashvili, for his part, has not been able to work normally during the week due to physical problems and does not reach the party. So Peque, Manu Bueno and Nico Guillén emerge as options. In Madrid, the main absence will be that of the sanctioned Vinicius, down with the injured Rodrygo, Asencio and Mendy.ABC Deportes · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
Real Madrid - Sevilla FC: horario, dónde ver en TV y canal del partido de LaLiga EA SportsReal Madrid and Sevilla FC face today Sunday October 18 at 21: 00 in the Santiago Bernabéu in the match corresponding to the 9 day of LaLiga EA Sports. ReadMarca · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
Alineaciones probables del Real Madrid - Sevilla de LaLiga EA Sports 2026-2027: onces y banquillo de suplentesWith two unwon games behind his back, and with a stop through, he faces the Sevilla FC this Sunday a test of remarkable demand. And it is, on the occasion of the 9th day of LaLiga, those of Nervion visit Santiago Bernabéu to measure, from 2100 hours, a Real Madrid that will beat them in four points. Despite the bitter tie of last Monday to the Levant (3-3), the Sevilla continues to maintain its undefeated status at home in what we have been carrying for the season (1-3 to the Athletic, 1-1 to the Espanyol and 0-1 to the Sports, in addition to the aforementioned tie in the Ciutat of Valencia). For its part, Madrid has full wins as a local, having joined five wins in the five games that it has played in the Bernabéu (4-1 to the Real Society, 4-0 to the Málaga, 2-1 to the Inter in Champions, 4-1 to the Vallecano Ray and 1-0 to the Villarreal). Possible alignment of the Seville to the Real MadridEn less than a week the list of casualties has grown considerably in the Seville. And that is that Luis García Plaza will not be able to count on up to five players from the first team to measure to Madrid; it is Marcao, Miguel Sierra, Kochorashvili and Guridi, injured, and Isaac, punished by the red one who saw the last day. The novelty in the call for the party to the Levant is that the coach recovers Lucas Stassin; they also stand out in the expedition that has traveled to the capital Fabio Cardoso and the Canterans Nico Guillén, Jesús Cruz and Rafa Romero. "The difficulty of the party is high, not even the best teams in Seville, winners of Europe League have achieved a good result. I'm going to repeat that. We intend to compete and see if we can score," said the press conference technician. Proper alignment of the Sevilla FC: Vlachodos; Churches, Castrin, Kike Salas, Suazo; Agoumé, Fofana, Peque; Alfon, Félix Correia and Robbie Ure. Beyond the casualties of the Sevillist wardrobe, García Plaza could only make a change in the eleven in respect of the one he took out last Monday in the Ciutat of Valencia; the prepper would choose to give the right-wing title to Alfon, to the detriment of the injured Miguel Sierra, and to Peque in the center of the camp, supplying Kochorashvili. Real Madrid's possible alignment to the Seville also comes with several casualties the Madrid to this shock, some of weight like Vinicius, which will fulfill before the Seville the first party of punishment of the four who have fallen to it; neither will the injured Asencio and Rodrygo be available to José Mourinho. The good news for the Portuguese technician is that Huijsen is recovered after punishment. Mendy and Militao have started to train with the group, although in the end only the Brazilian power plant has entered the call. "The team is tired, but tomorrow it won't be. Tomorrow's another day and we'll be fine. We also have very good options in case we want to make some change and bring freshness to the team," the Portuguese prepper warned at a press conference regarding the status of its players. Probable alignment of Real Madrid CF: Courtois; Trent, Konaté, Huijsen, Cucurella; Arda Güler, Tchouameni; Valverde, Bellingham, Diomande; and Mbappé. As Mourinho himself said, some changes are expected in the 11 Madridist with regard to the Champions party last Wednesday before Rome. Players such as Trent, Huijsen and Arda Güler could start from the beginning before Seville.ABC Deportes · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
Op welke zender kijk je Real Madrid – Sevilla live?Real Madrid competes in LaLiga against Seville. In the SN TV guide you can see on which channel this game can be seen. [...] Read on... On which channel do you watch Real Madrid Sevilla live? appeared first on Soccernews.nl .Soccernews · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Prediction

EstimateReal Madrid — Sevilla FC

62 %

1 · Real Madrid

19 %

X · draw

19 %

2 · Sevilla FC

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 8 matches played by Real Madrid, 8 matches by Sevilla FC. Confidence: fair

The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures

League average. 238 goals scored over 159 team-matches played (19 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.50 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
TeamGoalsRawKept
Real Madrid — attack19 in 8 matches1.591.34
Real Madrid — defence8 in 8 matches0.670.81
Sevilla FC — attack13 in 8 matches1.091.05
Sevilla FC — defence12 in 8 matches1.001.00
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.57 for Real Madrid and 0.57 for Sevilla FC. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.76 goal scored on average by the host against 1.38 by the visitor, over the 45 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.27; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.43, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.11. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
Real Madrid at home: 3.00 pts/match versus 2.25 overall over 4 matches → ×1.111
Sevilla FC away: 2.00 pts/match versus 1.75 overall over 4 matches → ×1.048
Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
λ_{Real Madrid} = 1.50 × 1.34 × 1.00 × 1.11 × 1.111 = 2.46
λ_{Sevilla FC} = 1.50 × 1.05 × 0.81 × 1.048 = 1.33
Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 62.2%, draw 18.4%, away win 19.4% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 9.1%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).

Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.

It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.

What other sources say

No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.

This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers

Thibaut Courtois
Andriy Lunin

Defenders

Raúl Asencio
Éder Militão
Dean Huijsen
Trent Alexander-Arnold
Ibrahima Konaté
Marc Cucurella
Álvaro Carreras
Antonio Rüdiger
Ferland Mendy
Denzel Dumfries

Midfielders

Jude Bellingham
Eduardo Camavinga
Federico ValverdeC
Aurélien Tchouaméni
Arda Güler
Bernardo Silva
Thiago Pitarch

Forwards

Vinícius Júnior
Endrick
Kylian Mbappé
Rodrygo
Carlos Espí
Brahim Díaz
Yan Diomande

This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.

Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: Official 2026-27 squad numbers list published by realmadrid.com on 10/08/2026 (the club's breakdown by position). Captaincy not confirmed by an official source: the Valverde-Vinícius-Courtois-Rodrygo order was reported by Madridista News (16/07/2026) and Defensa Central..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026

Real Madrid - Sevilla FC: Against the history, the casualties and all the cats of Mourinho

Source: ABC Deportes

rss18 Oct 2026

Real Madrid - Sevilla FC: schedule, where to watch on TV and the LaLiga EA Sports party channel

Source: Marca

rss18 Oct 2026

Probable Alineations of Real Madrid - Sevilla de Liga EA Sports 2026-2027: ounces and bench of alternates

Source: ABC Deportes

rss18 Oct 2026

Where to see Real Madrid-Siviglia on TV? Sky or Dazn, schedule

Source: Corriere dello Sport

rss18 Oct 2026

On which channel do you watch Real Madrid Sevilla live?

Source: Soccernews

rss18 Oct 2026

The David of Madrid: the athlete gongola, Jonathan as well, all happy while the Juve waits

Source: Tuttosport

Club3 Sep 2026

Squad published for matchday 4, on Friday at 21:00 away at La Cartuja against Betis: twenty-three players named, including goalkeepers Courtois, Lunin and Javi Navarro, defenders Huijsen, Trent, Konaté, Cucurella, Álvaro Carreras, Rüdiger, Dumfries and Mario Rivas, and up front Vinícius, Mbappé, Carlos Espí, Brahim and Yan Diomande.

Source: Real Madrid CF (site officiel)

Head coach3 Sep 2026

José Mourinho held his pre-match press conference on 3 September, summed up by the club under the headline “to beat Betis, you have to be at your maximum level” — the Portuguese's first public appearance since the window closed.

Source: Real Madrid CF (site officiel)

Other2 Sep 2026

Raúl Asencio was convicted on 19 August at an expedited hearing in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, of a road-safety offence: his driving licence was withdrawn and he was fined €14,400. At a routine check on 16 August, the defender had recorded 0.90 mg/l of alcohol in exhaled air, against a permitted maximum of 0.25.

Source: El Desmarque

European competition1 Sep 2026

Real Madrid will begin their Champions League league phase on 8 September at the Santiago Bernabéu against Inter Milan; if Endrick is not available in Seville, it is that European fixture that is targeted for his return.

Source: Infobae (dépêche EFE)

Club1 Sep 2026

The club has announced that the first-half-of-season Barcelona v Real Madrid will be played on Sunday 25 October at 21:00.

Source: Real Madrid CF (site officiel)

Club1 Sep 2026

José Mourinho closed the window with a squad of 26 players, one more than the LaLiga registration limit: Thiago Pitarch will therefore be registered with Castilla. Asencio and Camavinga, expected to leave, ultimately stayed, the head coach having said he was counting on everyone.

Source: El Debate

Result31 Aug 2026

A 4-0 win against Málaga on matchday 3: Real Madrid have 9 points, level with Barça, but remain second on goal difference.

Source: El Debate

Injury29 Aug 2026

At his press conference, Mourinho gave an injury update: Endrick is closest to returning, Militão, Rodrygo and Asencio are on “more complex” programmes, and Tchouaméni is being handled cautiously to avoid a relapse.

Source: Real Madrid CF (site officiel)

Injury16 Aug 2026

Update on Rodrygo: a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and the lateral meniscus in his right knee sustained in early March 2026 against Getafe, with a return estimated for the start of 2027, i.e. the second half of the season.

Source: Sports Illustrated Fútbol

Institutional10 Aug 2026

The club has published the official squad numbers for the 2026-27 first team: Konaté (16), Cucurella (17), Dumfries (24), Bernardo Silva (20), Carlos Espí (19) and Yan Diomande (25) are among the new numbers; Carvajal, Alaba and Ceballos no longer appear on the list.

Source: Real Madrid CF (site officiel)

News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.

Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.