Mourinho talks performance, rotation options after Real Madrid 4-0 Malaga

Mourinho talks performance, rotation options after Real Madrid 4-0 Malaga Real Madrid made it three wins from three at the start of the 2026-27 season with a 3-0 victory over Malaga on Sunday. Goals from Jude Bellingham, Alfonso Herrero (OG) and Kylian Mbappe were enough for Los Blancos to claim another win, one that takes them to the top of the La Liga standings – for 24 hours at least. After the match, head coach Jose Mourinho delivered his assessment to Real Madrid TV. As per MD , he was very happy with the first half performance, while also expressing satisfaction with how his side performed after half time – despite there being a significant drop off. “We played a very strong first half, from a team that didn’t want to waste time and came on to settle the game. The second half has been more managed, with a lower pace. Málaga had more time and more calmness to have the ball but every time we accelerated we created danger. The feeling was that we could score more goals. “As a team our objective was to keep a clean sheet, to work well defensively. It is not always possible to attack with a lot of intensity, the opponent sometimes comes out and you have to know how to be compact, balance, defend well, and we have done it well. They are three important points.” Mourinho: My players have a lot of quality Mourinho made five changes to his side from the midweek win against Real Sociedad, and he revealed that these were planned for several days. He also doubled down on his assessment of the second half performance. “I told the players before the game against Real Sociedad that I was going to make a lot of changes. I didn’t want to blur the team but I wanted to bring in people who have a lot of quality, as much quality as the others. As a coach they are options that I have, it is not a question of quality because all my players have a lot of quality. “I understand that people enjoyed the first half, but they also have to enjoy the second half because we saw a committed team, who worked defensively, we saw Vinicius chasing his opponent when he lost the ball. We have seen a very big commitment from the team. Not everything in football is to have fun with the beauty of goals. It’s good to go home with the feeling that there is a block, a team, and that’s very good. There are days when we will win 1-0 and we will leave just as happy.”