{"id":2050,"date":"2026-08-27T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:30:13","slug":"mbappe-kicks-off-mourinho-era-at-the-bernabeu-with-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/mbappe-kicks-off-mourinho-era-at-the-bernabeu-with-hat-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe kicks off &#8216;Mourinho era&#8217; at the Bernabeu with hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Real Madrid&#8217;s 2026-27 Santiago Bernabeu curtain-raiser, Kylian Mbappe blew Real Sociedad away with a stunning treble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid overcame some early jitters to ultimately dismantle Real Sociedad in their first home match of the 2026-27 campaign at the Santiago Bernabeu. While the spotlight fell on Jos\u00e9 Mourinho on his managerial return, it was Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 who stole the headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having drawn a blank in the curtain-raiser against Espanyol, the French talisman opened his account in emphatic fashion with a treble. He broke the deadlock with a moment of pure class in the 40th minute, only for Real Sociedad to hit back just four minutes later to restore parity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9 truly hit his stride after the interval, firing Los Blancos back into a 2-1 lead on the hour mark following a slick combination on the edge of the area with Jude Bellingham, who subsequently teed up Vinicius to tuck away Madrid&#8217;s third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To cap off an imperious individual display, the Bondy native unleashed a wonder strike in the 80th minute to wrap up a commanding 4-1 triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Real Madrid&#8217;s 2026-27 Santiago Bernabeu curtain-raiser, Kylian Mbappe blew Real Sociedad away with a stunning treble. Real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}