{"id":9303,"date":"2026-09-28T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:25:06","slug":"the-three-fault-lines-worrying-mourinhos-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=9303","title":{"rendered":"The three fault lines worrying Mourinho&#8217;s Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Whites are going through their first spell of doubt this season after the defeat to Atl\u00e9tico and now trail <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">Barcelona<\/a> by six points in LaLiga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-madrid-26\">Real Madrid<\/a> head into the end of September with more doubts than Jos\u00e9 Mourinho expected at this stage of the season. The 2-1 defeat to Atl\u00e9tico in the Madrid derby left Los Blancos in fourth place in LaLiga and six points behind Barcelona, who lead the table with a perfect record after the first seven matchdays. The result also once again put the spotlight on the way a team that had started the league campaign with very high expectations is functioning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One of the main questions concerns the team\u2019s balance. Real Madrid have shown problems controlling certain matches and have also raised doubts in some important games. The pressing system and intensity Mourinho wants still need greater consistency, while build-up play remains one of the areas the Portuguese coach will have to fine-tune over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In attack, not all of the players are going through the same spell either. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 continues to be one of the main attacking references, but Vin\u00edcius has yet to find his best form and other important players have not fully settled either. With a six-point gap to Barcelona, the margin for error is starting to shrink, and the next stretch of the season will be important in determining whether the doubts in September are just a rough patch or the first serious problem for Mourinho\u2019s project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On October 10, after the international break, Real Madrid will host Villarreal at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u on Matchday 8 of LaLiga, a clash in which Los Blancos need all three points to keep pace with Barcelona and avoid fueling the crisis rumors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/the-three-fault-lines-worrying-mourinhos-real-madrid-43532392\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whites are going through their first spell of doubt this season after the defeat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9304,"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,"two_page_speed":[],"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F435323923Fdate2026-09-28.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","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=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}