Real Madrid defeated Racing de Santander 3-0 on Sunday in LaLiga, according to Mediotiempo, extending their winning streak to five matches across all competitions. Kylian Mbappé opened the scoring in the 11th minute, Jude Bellingham doubled the lead in the 21st, and Racing's Yan Diomande turned the ball into his own net in the 36th, per the same report.
The result gives Real Madrid three consecutive league wins and follows their victory over Barcelona at the Camp Nou in the previous round. Mediotiempo reports that the club now sits third in the table on 24 points, three behind Barcelona.
Why it matters
The win matters less for the scoreline than for what it signals. Mediotiempo notes that Real Madrid began the season with significant inconsistency but now appear to have settled on a working formula, and the outlet describes this as their strongest stretch since José Mourinho returned to the dugout.
That framing is worth pausing on. Real Madrid went into the Clásico widely expected to struggle against a Barcelona side playing better football, according to Mediotiempo, and instead came away with the win on the back of a Mbappé double. Beating Racing away is a different kind of test — less glamorous, more about control — and Real Madrid passed it by halftime.
For Racing, the defeat interrupts a positive run at home. Mediotiempo reports that the Cantabrian club had won their previous home fixture 2-1 against Espanyol, with goals from Jeanuël Belocian and Yassir Zabiri.
A first half that decided the match
All three goals arrived inside the opening 36 minutes, which left Racing with little room to build anything. Mbappé struck first, continuing the scoring form that carried Real Madrid through the Clásico, where he scored twice. Bellingham added the second ten minutes later.
The third came from Diomande at the wrong end. Own goals are often described as unlucky, and this one arrived with Racing already two down and the game drifting away from them. Yahoo's headline on the match — that Real Madrid brought down the wall of El Sardinero — captures the sense of a home side that had set out to resist and was instead undone early.
Mediotiempo's preview had flagged Sergio Canales as a point of interest, given his history with Real Madrid. Whatever threat Racing hoped he might provide, the match was effectively settled before the interval.
What the table looks like now
Real Madrid's 24 points leave them third, per Mediotiempo, with the gap to Barcelona at three. That is a meaningful compression of a title race that looked more comfortable for Barcelona only a week ago.
The sequencing matters here. Real Madrid did not simply win two matches; they won a Clásico away from home and then followed it with a clean away victory against a side that had just won at home. Mediotiempo's assessment that the team has found the right formula is a judgment about consistency rather than peak performance, and this result supports it.
Racing, meanwhile, stay where they were before the weekend in terms of narrative: a team capable of winning at home, but not against this level of opponent on this kind of day. Mediotiempo's report does not give their league position.
What to watch
Real Madrid's next fixtures will show whether this run is a genuine turning point under Mourinho or a good month. The three-point gap to Barcelona is close enough that a single slip changes the picture, and close enough that Real Madrid can now think about the top of the table rather than the teams behind them.
