{"id":2868,"date":"2026-09-12T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:44:00","slug":"yan-diomande-handed-first-real-madrid-start-this-season-against-rayo-vallecano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"Yan Diomand\u00e9 handed first Real Madrid start this season against Rayo Vallecano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Yan Diomand\u00e9 makes his first <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-madrid-26\">Real Madrid<\/a> start of the season in Saturday\u2019s home derby against <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/rayo-vallecano-690\">Rayo Vallecano<\/a>, with kick-off at 21:00 on <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a>\u2019s fifth matchday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to L&#8217;\u00c9quipe, the 19-year-old Ivorian, signed from RB Leipzig for \u20ac125m excluding bonuses on 6 August, is selected by Jos\u00e9 Mourinho on the right in an attack alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/kylian-mbappe-172496\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/vinicius-junior-201900\">Vinicius Junior<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/jude-bellingham-343087\">Jude Bellingham<\/a>. He has 14 caps and three goals for Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mourinho has been cautious with Diomand\u00e9, introducing him five times from the bench so far, four in La Liga and once in the Champions League against Inter Milan on Tuesday, a 2-1 win. He has played under 100 minutes in total without a decisive contribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It is the first time this season that Real\u2019s anticipated front four all start together, with Vinicius on the left and Bellingham central behind Mbapp\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the other end, Antonio R\u00fcdiger partners Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 in central defence, only the second time they have started together in six matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/yan-diomande-handed-first-real-madrid-start-this-season-against-rayo-vallecano-43448684\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yan Diomand\u00e9 makes his first Real Madrid start of the season in Saturday\u2019s home derby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434486843Fdate2026-09-12.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}