{"id":495508,"date":"2025-09-16T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495508"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:06:01","slug":"mbappe-double-from-the-spot-saves-10-man-real-madrid-vs-marsille","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mbappe-double-from-the-spot-saves-10-man-real-madrid-vs-marsille\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe double from the spot saves 10-Man Real Madrid vs Marsille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid began their Champions League campaign with a narrow 2-1 victory over Olympique Marseille at the Santiago Bernabeu, relying on two Kylian Mbappe penalties to turn around a tense evening that also saw captain Dani Carvajal sent off.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish giants dominated the early stages, Franco Mastantuono rattling the post in the sixth minute before Jer\u00f3nimo Rulli denied both Rodrygo and Mbapp\u00e9 in quick succession. But against the run of play, Marseille struck first in the 22nd minute. Arda G\u00fcler lost possession deep in his own half, Mason Greenwood pounced and squared for Tim Weah, who coolly slotted past Thibaut Courtois to stun the home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid hit back quickly. Just six minutes later, Rodrygo was clipped by Geoffrey Kondogbia in the box, and Mbapp\u00e9 buried the resulting penalty into the bottom corner to level the score.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes Vinicius Junior and Brahim Diaz added energy after the break, with Vinicius twice going close. But Madrid\u2019s night turned complicated in the 71st minute when Carvajal lost his cool and headbutted Rulli during a tussle, earning a straight red card after a VAR review.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270c\ufe0f\ud83c\udfaf BRACE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWGmGQKkyb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WWGmGQKkyb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Madrid C.F. \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@realmadriden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadriden\/status\/1968055253242351993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, Los Blancos found their winner. With just over a quarter of an hour left, Facundo Medina was penalized for handball inside the box. Mbappe stepped up again, firing to the right corner. Though Rulli guessed correctly and got a touch, the ball crept in to seal the Frenchman\u2019s brace and Madrid\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid began their Champions League campaign with a narrow 2-1 victory over Olympique Marseille at the Santiago Bernabeu, relying on two Kylian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495509,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18072,16906,17362,17375],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18073,17949,21556,25864],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Nervy Champions League opener for Los Blancos at Santiago Bernabeu ends with three points","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495510,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495508\/revisions\/495510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495508"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495508"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}