European football: Bellingham sparks Real Madrid’s cruise to maintain perfect start

Real Madrid maintained their perfect start to the season in La Liga with a comfortable 4-0 home ⁠win over promoted Málaga on Sunday, scoring three times inside 30 minutes before adding a late fourth.

Jude Bellingham’s brilliant solo opener, an own ⁠goal by the Málaga goalkeeper ⁠Alfonso Herrero and ​a sharp Kylian Mbappé volley effectively settled the contest before half-time, with substitute Arda Guler wrapping up the victory in added time at ⁠the Bernabéu.

The win lifted Madrid to nine points from three matches, two clear of Atlético Madrid and Alavés. Barcelona, fourth on six points with a ⁠game in hand, host Rayo Vallecano on Monday.

Bellingham opened the scoring in the 19th minute ‌with a superb burst through the middle, collecting a loose ball near the edge of the area, gliding past three defenders and firing low beneath Herrero. They ​doubled their lead seven minutes later after Herrero could only palm out Mbappé’s effort. Bellingham headed the rebound back towards goal and, as Herrero and a teammate collided while trying to clear, the ball ended up in the net.

Mbappé then made it 3-0 in the 30th minute, meeting Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross ⁠with a fine volley from the centre of the box. The second half drifted until Guler, shortly ​after coming on, started ‌and finished a ​slick move, feeding Vinícius Júnior before tapping in the Brazilian’s return pass to complete the rout.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored for the third straight game as Deportivo La Coruña beat Valencia 3-1. The former Arsenal and Chelsea forward, who joined Deportivo from Marseille in the offseason, scored his side’s second goal as the newly promoted side won for the first time this season.

Napoli suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Como ⁠in Serie A, with all three goals coming in an entertaining opening half.

Tasos Douvikas scores Como’s second goal against Napoli. Photograph: Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Assane Diao looked the most threatening player in the opening stages ⁠and the winger was instrumental in the visitors’ 17th-minute opening goal. Diao went past ​Mathías Olivera on the right wing ‌and played a pass ‌across to Martin Baturina whose shot on the turn from close to the penalty ‌spot found the bottom corner of the net.

Noa Lang missed an excellent chance to equalise, sending a header over from inside the six-yard box, before Napoli drew level on the half-hour mark. Rasmus Højlund collected a pass on the edge of the area and drilled the ball low into the far corner, but Como were back in front four minutes later when Napoli ​were caught napping at the back.

André-Frank Zambo Anguissa underhit a pass back to Amir Rrahmani in his own box, allowing Baturina to nick the ball away. It fell to Tasos Douvikas and Como’s top scorer last season netted his second goal of this ⁠campaign.

Hakan Calhanoglu’s early strike earned Inter a 1-0 win at Cagliari as they continued a perfect start to their title defence. The Turkey midfielder guided home a first-time strike from the edge of the box after nine minutes to make it two goals in two games and set the tone for a first half dominated by the champions in Sardinia.

Curtis Jones made his Inter debut from the bench in the second half, but Inter’s lack of composure in front of goal almost came back to bite them as Cagliari threatened a shock equaliser with a flurry of late chances.

Paris Brunner netted a goal in each half as Monaco beat visitors ⁠Marseille 2-0 to go top of Ligue 1 as the only team to win their first two games.

Monaco ⁠took the lead in the 13th minute when the Marseille defence was caught ball-watching as Brunner leaped between two defenders ⁠to head home a cross from Aleksandr Golovin. Marseille controlled the ball for long ​spells but struggled to create ‌shots on target, with ‌their efforts often blocked by the home side’s resolute rearguard.

Timothy Weah came close ‌to equalising for the visitors in the 53rd minute with a powerful shot from a tight angle that hit the side netting. It was to prove a costly miss as Brunner latched on to a long ball a minute later, speeding away from the defence before nonchalantly cutting ‌inside and slotting the ball in at the far post to make it 2-0.

Yuito Suzuki scored a hat-trick as Freiburg thumped Werder Bremen 4-1, while Schalke’s return to ⁠the Bundesliga ended in a 3-0 away defeat to Augsburg as they finished with 10 men.