{"id":949249,"date":"2026-11-01T23:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949249\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:26:15","slug":"european-football-mbappe-penalty-helps-real-madrid-stroll-to-sixth-straight-win-european-club-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949249\/","title":{"rendered":"European football: Mbapp\u00e9 penalty helps Real Madrid stroll to sixth straight win | European club football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 moved on from a tumultuous week by scoring a penalty to help Real Madrid win 3-0 at Racing Santander<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The French forward narrowly lost out on the Ballon d\u2019Or<\/a> to Bayern Munich\u2019s Harry Kane on Monday and then had to apologise after a social media storm following a video in which he joked<\/a> about the former Chinese leader Mao Zedong.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid\u2019s match, along with other Spanish fixtures this weekend, was not broadcast by Chinese state television because of the fallout.<\/p>\n

Jude Bellingham and Yan Diomand\u00e9 were also on target to keep third-placed Madrid within three points of the La Liga<\/a> leaders, Barcelona, who thrashed Alav\u00e9s 6-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s side have won six straight games across all competitions and are a point behind Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, who beat Levante 2-0.<\/p>\n

Real Sociedad\u2019s four-match winning run came to an end after they lost 2-1 to Athletic Bilbao thanks to first-half goals from Inaki Williams and Alex Berenguer, who scored a penalty.<\/p>\n

Gennaro Gattuso\u2019s Lazio consolidated their position at the top of Serie A with a 2-1 victory over Cagliari, nudging ahead of Inter Milan after the two clubs had started the weekend level on points.<\/p>\n

Lazio made a poor start as Cagliari took the lead through M\u2019Bala Nzola in the 20th minute before goals in either half from Gustav Isaksen and Andrea Pinamonti gave them a sixth straight Serie A<\/a> win.<\/p>\n

Como moved back into the top four as they eked out a 1-0 victory at home over bottom side Venezia<\/a> on Sunday for a fifth consecutive victory across all competitions.<\/p>\n

The hosts dominated, but needed a penalty to find the back of the net. The Como<\/a> captain, Lucas Da Cunha, converted in the 43rd minute for the French international\u2019s first goal of the season. \u201cThis is the type of match we found hard to win last season,\u201d Da Cunha told DAZN.<\/p>\n

Second-half goals from Kerim Alajbegovic and Jeremie Boga ensured Juventus returned to winning ways with a 2-0 victory over 10-man Napoli, who had Luca Marianucci sent off in the second half as they slipped to their fourth defeat of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Lyon and Paris FC both won to close in on the defending Ligue 1 champions, Paris Saint-Germain, with the capital team defeating Monaco 3-1.<\/p>\n

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Lyon\u2019s Corentin Tolisso embraces coach Paulo Fonseca after scoring the second goal against Angers. Photograph: Manon Cruz\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Lyon won 2-0 at home to Angers with goals in each half from Ernest Nuamah and Corentin Tolisso, as they bounced back from a 2-0 defeat away to PSG last time out.<\/p>\n

The seven-time French title winners are third in the table, three points behind PSG and one behind second-placed Lille. Lyon\u2019s win came amid reports that their coach, Paulo Fonseca, is close to leaving the club to return to his native Portugal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that I will be with the players tomorrow morning but beyond that it is hard to say,\u201d Fonseca, who was in tears as he embraced his backroom staff at the end of the game, told reporters. Fonseca is reportedly a target for Sporting, whose coach Rui Borges is under pressure.<\/p>\n

Paris FC are fourth after getting the better of Monaco<\/a> at the Stade Jean-Bouin. Lassine Sinayoko, the Malian international forward, scored twice late in the first half for Paris FC before FolarinBalogun pulled one back on 65 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 moved on from a tumultuous week by scoring a penalty to help Real Madrid win 3-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-949249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}