Madrid moved to third place behind Atletico Madrid and leader Barcelona. Kylian Mbappe scored a beautiful goal and converted a penalty kick to help Real Madrid beat Sevilla 4-1 despite the absence of the suspended Vinicius Junior in the Spanish league on Sunday. Diego Gomez scored with a shot from the halfway line in Brighton’s 5-0 win over Crystal Palace, and Arsenal edged Nottingham Forest in the Premier League. Freiburg wasted a chance to regain first place in the Bundesliga with its first loss of the season – a 2-1 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen – and Monaco lost 1-0 at Lorient to lose its status as the only unbeaten team in the French league.
Kylian Mbappe scored a beautiful goal and converted a penalty kick to help Real Madrid beat Sevilla 4-1 despite the absence of the suspended Vinicius Junior in the Spanish league on Sunday.
Mbappe controlled the ball while turning his body and then used a quick touch to clear a defender before going around Sevilla goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos to score Madrid’s second goal in the 37th minute at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The hosts opened a three-goal lead by the 57th minute and held on for the victory despite conceding twice. Rennes’ Estéban Lepaul scored a hat trick entirely from penalties, the last in the 88th. Lorient moved to seventh place, while Freiburg took the lead through Derry Scherhant in the 14th minute but the hosts rallied with goals from Ibrahim Maza in the 19th and Patrik Schick in the 76th.
The victory moved Madrid one point behind Atletico and six points behind Barcelona, which won 5-2 at Real Betis on Saturday. Milan is four points behind leader Inter Milan, which won 3-1 at Bologna on Saturday. Monaco dropped to fifth and is tied on 14 points with Lyon, second-place Paris Saint-Germain, third-place Paris FC and Lille. Paris needed a penalty kick deep into stoppage time to defeat sixth-place Rennes 4-3 at home. Celta Vigo beat Alaves 2-1 at home for its second win across all competitions this season. The result left Celta in eighth place, level on 11 points with seventh-place Alaves, which won three of its first four league games but is winless in five straight.
