Kylian Mbappe had two goals and an assist and Jude Bellingham scored his third goal of the season as Real Madrid finished second in La Liga and made it perfect at home this season with victory over Rayo Vallecano in La Liga.
last season league The top scorer converted a penalty in the 14th minute after Florian Lejeune tripped up Alvaro Carreras and set up the left-back to fire home from inside the box three minutes later.
Bellingham collected Vinicius Junior’s pass to score the third from the edge of the box in the 35th minute, although Vallecano responded when Sergio Camello scored his sixth goal in four games.
Mbape fired in a fourth with a low shot to finish off a counter-attack in the 91st minute as Madrid ensured they had won all four of their home games in all competitions this season, although their Defeat by 1-0 to Betis on September 4 means they are level on points with leaders Barcelona, but have one less game to play.
Madrid vs Vallecano: Mbappé to the double in the League
Mbappé could have had a second in first-half added time, but he fired against the post, with Pedro Díaz de Vallecano following suit from distance shortly after the restart.
Later in the second half, Denzel Dumfries headed Arda Guler’s free-kick against the crossbar with an excellent save from goalkeeper Emil Aduero, whose side were admirable with 18 attempts on goal.
Vallecano remain on four points and are next in action at home to Espanyol in La Liga on Tuesday (18:00 BST). Madrid visit Elche on the same night (20:30).
Real Madrid vs Vallecano
Madrid made four changes from their 2-1 home win over Inter in the Champions League on Tuesday, including a full debut for £120million winger Yan Diomande.
Defender Antonio Rudiger, midfielder Bernardo Silva and Carreras have also returned.
Real Madrid starting eleven: Thibaut Courtois, Denzel Dumfries, Ibrahima Konate, Antonio Rudiger, Alvaro Carreras, Bernardo Silva, Federico Valverde, Yan Diomande, Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Jr, Kylian Mbappe
Substitutes from Madrid: Andrii Lunin, Raul Asencio, Dean Huijsen, Eduardo Camavinga, Endrick, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Aurelien Tchoumaneni, Arda Guler, Marc Cucurella, Carlos Espi, Brahim Diaz, Thiago Pitarch
Rayo Vallecano team vs Madrid
Vallecano made three changes from their 3-2 home win over Racing a week earlier, bringing in goalkeeper Emil Audero, midfielder Gnangoro Bouare and winger Giorgi Tsitaishvili.
Rayo Vallecano starting XI: Emil Audero, Andrei Ratiu, Florian Lejeune, Pathe Ciss, Adria Pedrosa, Unai Lopez, Gnangoro Bouare, Pedro Diaz, Jorge de Frutos, Sergio Camello, Alvaro García
substitutes of Vallecano: Adrian Molina, Dani Cardenas, Alemao, Mujaid Sadick, Ivan Balliu, Pelayo Fernandez, Marco de Las Sias, Marash Kumbulla, Oscar Valentin, Samu Becerra, Marco Roman
Statistics Madrid vs Rayo Vallecano
- Madrid are unbeaten in their last eight meetings with Vallecano (W4 D4) and have won each of their last three as hosts of the match.
- Their only defeat in the last 11 editions of the game since April 2019 was a 3-2 La Liga defeat in November 2022.
- Los Blancos have not lost at home to Vallecano in 19 games in all competitions (14 wins, 5 draws) since a 2-1 La Liga defeat in January 1996, when Guilherme Alves scored twice.
- Four of their previous six meetings with Vallecano have been draws, with one of the two goalless stalemates on the way to the Bernabéu in November 2023.
- Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer in the game’s history with 12 goals, which puts Madrid’s all-time top scorer ahead of the second player on this list, Karim Benzema, who has 11.
- Vallecano has scored in seven of his last nine meetings with Madrid, including five of the last six, with a total of seven goals.
- They have yet to keep a clean sheet in five games this season and have had one in their last nine La Liga games, although they have conceded one goal or less in four of those fixtures, with only Barcelona and Madrid having managed more than two.
- Espanyol and Sevilla (67 each), Real Sociedad (62) and Racing Club (60) are the only teams to have committed more fouls in La Liga this season than Vallecano (58).
- Only Elche (12) have conceded more goals than Vallecano (10), while Getafe and Sevilla are the only teams to match their total of two red cards in the 2026/27 top flight.
- Only Barcelona’s Raphinha (6) has matched Camello’s number of goals in the division this season
