{"id":815733,"date":"2026-08-16T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815733\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:48:15","slug":"mbappe-starts-against-schalke-diomande-on-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815733\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 starts against Schalke, Diomande on the bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 is getting back into the fold right away. The star striker is named in the starting XI to face Schalke 04 in Real Madrid\u2019s final friendly game of pre-season in the Veltins-Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jose Mourinho also handed a first start to Ibrahima Konate in a bid to finalize his starting XI against Espanyol for Madrid\u2019s LaLiga opener. Bernardo Silva and Fede Valverde start in a double pivot with Vinicius Jr., Arda G\u00fcler and Brahim Diaz in front of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Real Madrid XI: Thibaut Courtois; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Dean Huijsen, Alvaro Carreras; Silva, Valverde, Vini Jr., G\u00fcler, Brahim; Mbapp\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It is interesting that, despite having had a few training sessions with the team, new signing Yan Diomande is yet to make a start. It will remain intriguing to observe if the youngster gets any minutes in the second half. On the other hand, it could simply be a precaution due to any benign fitness issues that may not have been resolved yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 is getting back into the fold right away. The star striker is named in the starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[55853,403,99],"class_list":["post-815733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-real-madrid-cf-friendlies","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}