Real Madrid set top-5 league benchmark in win over Málaga | OneFootball

La Liga giants Real Madrid have on Sunday secured for themselves an early goalscoring benchmark to open the new campaign. This comes fresh off another dominant victory for Los Blancos on Sunday evening.

José Mourinho’s troops marked their return to action a short time ago, welcoming newly promoted Málaga to Spain’s capital for a league clash.

Real headed into proceedings eyeing a third successive victory to open the new Mourinho era. And when all was said and done, this is precisely what the capital outfit managed.

Owing to goals on the part of Jude Bellingham, Alfonso Herrero (OG), Kylian Mbappé and Arda Güler, the evening’s hosts emerged on the right side of a 4-0 result.

And as alluded to above, in the process, Real Madrid etched an early-season benchmark amongst European football’s leading divisions.

As revealed by statisticians StatMuse, after adding four more to their tally to open 2026/27 against Málaga, Los Merengues have become the ‘first team to score 10 goals this season in Europe’s Top 5 leagues’.

Conor Laird – GSFN