Mbappe shines as 10-man Real Madrid defeat Real Sociedad

Kylian Mbappe was astatine his superb champion arsenic Real Madrid showed grit to assertion a 2-1 triumph astatine Real Sociedad successful La Liga connected Saturday, contempt playing for an hr with 10 men aft Dean Huijsen’s reddish card.

Mbappe and Arda Guler’s first-half goals were capable for Los Blancos to support their 100 percent record, with Mikel Oyarzabal pulling 1 backmost for the hosts from the punishment spot.

Xabi Alonso’s broadside apical the array connected 12 points from 4 games, with second-placed Athletic Bilbao facing Alaves aboriginal on, portion champions Barcelona big Valencia connected Sunday.

Huijsen was dismissed for pulling down Oyarzabal arsenic helium ran done connected extremity with Madrid starring 1-0 done Mbappe’s opener, and the Frenchman acceptable up Guler for the second.

“The reddish paper changed the crippled a spot but we weren’t afraid, we scored the second… we suffered arsenic a team, but we spell location with the 3 points,” Mbappe told Real Madrid TV.

“The commencement to the play has been precise good, and excavation too, but the play is 9 months, 11 with a World Cup, truthful I person to play good for a batch much clip (to come).”

Madrid lined up with Dani Carvajal astatine right-back, leaving Trent Alexander-Arnold connected the bench, portion Fede Valverde was rested and Dani Ceballos came in.

Guler had a extremity disallowed for offside aboriginal connected arsenic Los Blancos started strongly, with Real Sociedad inactive looking for their archetypal triumph nether caller manager Sergio Francisco.

Mbappe broke the deadlock aft 12 minutes erstwhile helium sprinted connected to a escaped back-pass, beating 2 defenders for gait earlier producing a objective decorativeness for his 4th league extremity this season.

Madrid’s task grew harder erstwhile Spanish centre-back Huijsen, signed from Bournemouth this summer, was dismissed for pulling backmost Oyarzabal arsenic helium ran towards goal.

“For maine it was a yellowish card, (Militao) was adjacent and the shot was not nether control, and seeing the replay didn’t alteration my mind,” Alonso said.

“I asked astir it, (the referee) explained it and it didn’t person me.”

Despite their numerical disadvantage Guler doubled Madrid’s pb earlier the interruption with a neat decorativeness aft a superb tally from French superstar Mbappe, who teed him up aft floating wrong from the left.

The hosts improved successful the 2nd fractional and won a punishment aft a Carvajal handball, which Oyarzabal dispatched.

However the Basque broadside did not person capable to instrumentality thing from the game, with Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois doubly denying Oyarzabal.

Alonso warned Madrid’s stars up of the lucifer they would beryllium picked connected merit and aft a frustrating day Vinicius Junior was replaced by Fran Garcia with implicit 20 minutes remaining, arsenic the manager tried to unopen up store against his erstwhile playing side.

Madrid held connected done six minutes of stoppage clip to unafraid their victory.

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