{"id":369,"date":"2026-08-31T04:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=369"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:47:13","slug":"jude-bellingham-and-kylian-mbappe-shine-as-jose-mourinhos-real-madrid-cruise-past-malaga-to-stay-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe shine as Jose Mourinho\u2019s Real Madrid cruise past Malaga to stay perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Speaking after the full-time whistle, Mourinho was full of praise for his young superstar. &#8220;He is an incredible player,&#8221; the manager stated. &#8220;He is very demanding of himself and he is also demanding of others. I didn&#8217;t want to see him defend almost like a second left-back.&#8221; The Portuguese tactician, now in his second spell at the club, seems to have found the perfect balance for his star-studded attacking trident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Addressing the chemistry between his front three, Mourinho dismissed previous reports of friction. &#8220;Very, very good players want to play together always, because they have the same speed of thought, the same quality and they always have to be compatible,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;It was said that I didn&#8217;t want the three, but what I say is that I always want the best. There is empathy and collective work. They are all very good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Bellingham himself has spoken about the positive impact of Mourinho\u2019s arrival, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/jude-bellingham-jose-mourinho-real-madrid\/bltcb61c4ba1b34f567\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>citing a newfound sense of liberty on the pitch<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;I feel greater freedom again, greater freedom to decide when to drop back, when to push forward, or when to make runs into the box,&#8221; Bellingham said ahead of the game. &#8220;I think this is the best position for me, as it allows me to show all my abilities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking after the full-time whistle, Mourinho was full of praise for his young superstar. &#8220;He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laliga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2292742634-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}