La Liga · Matchday 21Won
Villarreal0
Real Madrid2
Mbappé 46', Mbappé 90+3' (pen)
24 Jan · Estadio de la CerámicaDetails
Real Madrid 1–0 Villarreal
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Match summary
Real Madrid beat Villarreal 1–0 at Santiago Bernabéu on 10 October 2026 in La Liga in front of 75,242 spectators. Diomande 62' scored for Real Madrid. Vinícius Jr. 72' was sent off.
It was Real Madrid's 26th win in 50 meetings between the clubs (26 wins, 17 draws, 7 defeats for Real Madrid). Real Madrid have won the last 5 meetings. Real Madrid went into the game with a recent run of L W W W L. Real Madrid are now 3rd on 27 points, Villarreal 9th on 12 in La Liga.
Line-ups
1Courtois18Carreras22Rüdiger16Konaté12Alexander-Arnold14Tchouaméni8Valverde25Diomande5Bellingham15Arda Güler10Mbappé25Gulácsi23Cardona12Veiga6Navarro3Freeman18Gueye8Foyth14Comesaña10Moleiro22Pérez11Akhomach
- Real Madrid · Substitutes
- 17Marc Cucurella↑ 45'
- 7Vinícius Júnior ↑ 52'
- 6Eduardo Camavinga↑ 77'
- 24Denzel Dumfries↑ 86'
- 26Sergio Mestre
- 20Bernardo Silva
- 27Thiago Pitarch
- 13Andriy Lunin
- 9Endrick
- 19Carlos Espí
- 21Brahim Díaz
- Villarreal · Substitutes
- 20Carlos Romero↑ 56'
- 24Nathan Saliba↑ 56'
- 7Gerard Moreno↑ 67'
- 9Georges Mikautadze↑ 67'
- 27Nizar El Jmili Ben Hamou↑ 86'
- 16Carlos Macià
- 28Joselillo
- 21Tani Oluwaseyi
- 5Alassane Diatta
- 2Logan Costa
- 15Santiago Mouriño
- 1Luiz Júnior
Match events
- 10'Yellow cardRenato Veiga
- 19'Yellow cardBellingham
- 45'SubstitutionCucurella for Carreras
- 52'SubstitutionVinícius Jr. for Alexander-Arnold
- 56'SubstitutionCarlos Romero for Juan Foyth
- 56'SubstitutionNathan Saliba for Santi Comesaña
- 62'GoalDiomande
- 67'SubstitutionGerard Moreno for Sergi Cardona
- 67'SubstitutionGeorges Mikautadze for Ilias Akhomach
- 68'Yellow card
- 72'Red cardVinícius Jr.
- 77'SubstitutionCamavinga for Arda Güler
- 81'Yellow cardKonaté
- 83'Yellow cardRüdiger
- 84'Yellow cardPau Navarro
- 86'SubstitutionDumfries for Diomande
- 86'SubstitutionNizar El Jmili Ben Hamou for Alberto Moleiro
- 87'Yellow cardTchouaméni
- 90+4'Yellow cardMbappé
Real Madrid v Villarreal: head-to-head
All 50 meetings- 50Meetings
- 26Real Madrid wins
- 17Draws
- 7Villarreal wins
Previous meetings
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