Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad 4-1 at the Bernabeu on Wednesday \u2060in their first home match since the return of Jose Mourinho as head coach.<\/p>\n
Mbappe put Madrid ahead in the 40th minute before Luka Sucic levelled four minutes later, but the \u2060France forward restored the \u2060hosts’ lead on the hour. Vinicius Junior added a third in the 68th minute before Mbappe completed his treble ten minutes from time.<\/p>\n
It was a winning return \u2060to the Bernabeu for Mourinho, more than 13 years after his previous home match in charge of the club, as Madrid recovered from a disjointed first half \u2060with a ruthless display after the break.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Fenerbahce upset Lyon in the Champions League playoffs to advance, while Viking Stavanger joined fellow Norwegians Bodo\/Glimt in the league phase with victory over Dinamo Zagreb.<\/p>\n
With the teams locked at 1-1 from the first leg in Istanbul a week ago, the Turkish giants opened up a 2-0 lead in the first half of the return fixture in France. Vedat Muriqi and English defender Archie Brown were on target for the visitors, with winger Malick Fofana giving Lyon faint hope in the second half.<\/p>\n
Viking hit back from a goal down on the night against Dinamo Zagreb, winning 3-1 in Norway and 5-3 on aggregate. Albania’s Arber Hoxha gave Dinamo an early lead but Zlatko Tripic equalised from the penalty spot just eight minutes later. Two early goals in the second half from Edvin Austbo and Tobias Moi sealed Viking’s progress to their first Champions League group phase.<\/p>\n
Barnabas Varga scored a double and former Real Madrid forward Luka Jovic added another as AEK Athens cruised into the league phase with a 4-0 thrashing of Levski Sofia. Romania’s Razvan Marin added a penalty as the Greeks booked their progress following a 0-0 draw in the first leg in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n
Panama\u2019s Cristian Mart\u00ednez scored the extra-time winner for Slovan Bratislava as they overcame Slovenian champions Celje.<\/p>\n
After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Andraz Sporar gave the Slovakians an early lead at Celje but Svit Seslar equalised fom the penalty spot, before Mart\u00ednez secured a 3-2 aggregate success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad 4-1 at the Bernabeu on Wednesday \u2060in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-605744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}