{"id":218899,"date":"2025-10-22T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218899\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:42:07","slug":"jude-bellingham-back-in-scoring-form-as-real-madrid-edge-out-juventus-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218899\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham back in scoring form as Real Madrid edge out Juventus | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t a classic but the chorus from the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u was. It had been a while and they had missed moments such as this \u2013 but for the first time since April Fool\u2019s Day, Jude Bellingham stood before the south end with his arms wide, listening to them sing Hey Jude. There had been a shoulder injury, doubts about his role too, but now he had scored his first goal of the season, ultimately taking Real Madrid<\/a> to a 1-0 win against a Juventus team that aren\u2019t what they once were but who made a match of it. \u201cWe had to sweat for it,\u201d Thibaut Courtois said.<\/p>\n

He knew better than anyone, having to rescue a one\u2011on\u2011one from Dusan Vlahovic and make another decisive save from Kh\u00e9phren Thuram in the very last minute to leave Madrid on nine points and Igor Tudor\u2019s side below the cut in this league phase. At the end of a match with more shots than football, the Juventus<\/a> manager may reflect on a decent start, those saves a great opportunity wasted on 85 minutes; their reality, though, makes worrying reading.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Italian team in trouble is twice as dangerous,\u201d Xabi Alonso had said and Juventus, who had not won since September, did cause Madrid problems at the beginning and again at the end. Madrid dominated possession, 66%-34%, but Juventus threatened in transition, especially with Pierre Kalulu running and Vlahovic linking, and fired off 12 shots to go with 27 from the home side.<\/p>\n

They had started well, certainly. After just three minutes they thought they were away, Vlahovic a little unfortunate to be penalised for pulling at \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o. Three minutes later, Ra\u00fal Asencio had to slide ahead of Vlahovic when Kalulu dashed clear on the right. And three minutes after that, Weston McKennie\u2019s shot was pushed past the post.<\/p>\n

What followed, from Federico Gatti\u2019s drive, was a more impressive stop. Fifteen minutes had gone. That said, soon the Italian side\u2019s momentum had too. Madrid took control. Mostly it was all a bit functional, though, and the three best opportunities came to Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni, who would not be Alonso\u2019s striker of choice. Two were headed over, a third deflected wide; another headed opportunity was missed by Milit\u00e3o.<\/p>\n

The best moments came from Arda Guler. The Turk, whose football was the nearest thing there was to fluidity, was always involved. His neat stop and turn saw him clip to the far post for Bellingham.<\/p>\n

There was not much sign of Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 yet, but when he did appear it was the closest Madrid got to scoring. First his shot was stopped by Michele Di Gregorio, who would make eight saves. Then with some lovely fast footwork he turned Andrea Cambiaso twice until he tumbled to the turf and set up Milit\u00e3o to fire over.<\/p>\n

Jude Bellingham tucks the ball home from close range for the only goal of the game in Real Madrid\u2019s victory over Juventus. Photograph: Violeta Santos Moura\/Reuters<\/p>\n

The Brazilian dived to stop Kalulu at the start of the second half, and then came the regulation Courtois rescue when suddenly Vlahovic was away. The \u201cassist\u201d had been quite something, Lloyd Kelly cutting out a pass inside his own area and the ball bouncing from the instep of his boot right through the middle to beyond the halfway line. Sprinting after it, huge space opening, Vlahovic raced Milit\u00e3o, holding him off and heading into the area where Courtois saved.<\/p>\n

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Then what tends to happen happened, the save made good by the goal that follows it. A flash from Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior created it, working himself enough space amid four men to release a low, left-footed shot which hit the post. Lurking in that striker\u2019s role was Bellingham. The breakthrough found, Madrid should have finished it, Mbapp\u00e9 stopped by Di Gregorio and Fede Valverde seeing his volley blocked by Gatti. Then Di Gregorio made a brilliant double stop from Mbapp\u00e9 and Brahim D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n

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It was not the only one: as the game was slipping away, Ra\u00fal Asencio had to make a stunning sliding block as Madrid were opened up and at the mercy of Lo\u00efs Openda momentarily alone in the area. Then in the final seconds Courtois flew in to deny Thuram, his work done. For Juve, there was no way back, Bellingham\u2019s first of the season the last of the match and he said: \u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling, a long time now since I\u2019ve scored, a lot of time out and dreaming of that moment, back in the Champions League<\/a> and against a big team. To score a winner, here at home, it\u2019s unbelievable. I felt comfortable, really good. To play well was important and to score the winning goal helps the team a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t a classic but the chorus from the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u was. It had been a while and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-218899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}