US EditionMarseille Lose to Real Madrid and Kylian Mbappé in Champions League Opener
Kylian Mbappé scored both penalties leading Real Madrid to a 2-1 comeback victory against Marseille despite playing with 10 men after a red card, marking Madrid's 200th Champions League win.
- Real Madrid beat Marseille 2-1 at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday in the first Champions League match of the 2025-26 season.
- The match featured early tension with Spanish police clashing with Marseille fans, and Madrid losing Trent Alexander-Arnold to injury just five minutes into his UCL debut.
- Kylian Mbappe scored two penalties to overturn Marseille's early lead, while Madrid played with ten men after Dani Carvajal was sent off in the 72nd minute for head-butting the goalkeeper.
- Mbappe reached 50 goals in 64 matches for Madrid and became the second-fastest to do so after Cristiano Ronaldo, while Xabi Alonso won his first UCL game as Madrid's coach and the team recorded its 200th Champions League win.
- Madrid's victory secured early momentum in the competition where the top eight teams advance directly to the last 16 and underlined Mbappe's integral role as the team prepared for the season ahead.
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Mbappe scores 2 as Real Madrid win on opening night of Champions
LONDON: Kylian Mbappe converted two penalties and 10-man Real Madrid came back to beat visiting Marseille 2-1 on Tuesday on the opening night of the Champions League. The victory meant that 15-time champion Madrid became the first team in competition history — since the rebranding in the early 1990s — to reach 200 wins. And it gave former Madrid playing standout Xabi Alonso a
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