{"id":3580,"date":"2026-09-15T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:10:12","slug":"confirmed-real-madrid-starting-lineup-against-elche-guler-in-for-bellingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3580","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Real Madrid starting lineup against Elche \u2013 Guler in for Bellingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Real Madrid will be looking to pick up their fifth win of the 2026\/27 La Liga season when they take on Elche CF at Estadio Manuel Martinez Valero later tonight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With 12 points from five games, <em>Los Blancos<\/em> are currently second in the league table, three points below leaders FC Barcelona.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As such, the Spanish capital club will be eager to get the win and close the gap to the top.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ahead of kickoff, Real Madrid have announced the starting lineup that will take the field against Elche, with Jose Mourinho making some important changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For starters, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/arda-gueler-416314\">Arda Guler<\/a> is back in the lineup after appearing as a substitute in the win over Rayo Vallecano. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Interestingly, however, he starts in the attacking midfield role, with Mourinho opting to rest <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/jude-bellingham-343087\">Jude Bellingham<\/a>, who has started all of Real Madrid\u2019s games so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>That also means that <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/yan-diomande-631306\">Yan Diomande<\/a> retains his place in the team, starting for a second time in a row on the right wing. Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr. continue in their respective positions in attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Another notable change sees <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/aurelien-tchouameni-195848\">Aurelien Tchouameni<\/a> make his first start of the season after recovering from injury and making two appearances off the bench.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He replaces Bernardo Silva as Federico Valverde\u2019s partner in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Marc Cucurella come in as full-backs, while Ibrahima Konate and Dean Huijsen slot in at centre-back in front of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/confirmed-real-madrid-starting-lineup-against-elche-guler-in-for-bellingham-43465418\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid will be looking to pick up their fifth win of the 2026\/27 La&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3581,"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-3580","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434654183Fdate2026-09-15.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","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=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}