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If Mbappe is to <\/span>land an elusive Ballon d\u2019Or at some stage<\/span><\/a>, then he may need a Champions League triumph to aid that cause. He has been left watching on from afar as <\/span>former employers Paris Saint-Germain have gone back-to-back<\/span><\/a> in that department.<\/span><\/p>\n Real, who are now working under returning \u2018Special One\u2019 Jose Mourinho, have not looked entirely convincing early on in the 2026-27 campaign. Taking that into account, a 16th European Cup may prove difficult to chase down for the Blancos.<\/span><\/p>\n Leboeuf added: \u201cReal Madrid in the Champions League, it\u2019s too early to say. We saw Paris Saint-Germain struggle in the beginning of the season in Ligue 1 and the Champions League over the past two years, only to wake up around December and dominate everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHopefully Mourinho will find the solution to make the team better. At the weekend in the derby, I didn’t understand how Atletico Madrid finished the game with 11 players and Real Madrid with 10. I understand why their player got sent off, but there were two red-card-worthy fouls from Atletico Madrid. I agree with Mourinho, you don’t even need a post-match press conference, just show the pictures and that says it all.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cVAR officials in England, France, and Spain need to wake up because it’s not working. We knew when Mourinho came in that it would take time to settle down, and we don’t know yet if it’s going to work. With the egos in the dressing room and the mentality of the players, even for someone with a strong character like Mourinho, it’s going to be very difficult to fix what is going wrong at Real Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBarcelona has a culture of playing together that has been there since Johan Cruyff or even before. For 50 or 60 years at Barcelona, the main principle has been to play together, despite having individual talent. [Pep] Guardiola maintained that, [Ronald] Koeman maintained that, and Hansi Flick does that now. Even if they don’t focus as much on defending, they score so many goals that it’s impossible to cope with them. That’s a beautiful, entertaining game.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe know Mourinho wants to play a different style. When he came back in 2013, he changed the mentality and made Real Madrid win by being tough and aggressive, which is acceptable in football.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt takes time to return to that mindset, and I don’t know if Mourinho is capable of repeating what he did in 2013. Hopefully for him, Real Madrid, and the fans, he can. But I have my doubts given the current generation of players he has, as it’s hard to change that selfish mindset.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n If Mbappe is to land an elusive Ballon d\u2019Or at some stage, then he may…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5206,"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":true,"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-5205","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\/09\/GOAL20-20Multiple20Images20-20320Stacked20-20Facebook20-202026-09-22T122825.133.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","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=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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