20.08.2025 12:37
Real Madrid hosted Osasuna in the first week match of LaLiga. Arda Güler started in the starting eleven and played the full 90 minutes. Real Madrid won the match with a score of 1-0, earning 3 points.
After 11 years, Xabi Alonso returned to Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, this time not as a player of Real Madrid but as the head coach. In his first match in the league, he gave the opportunity to new transfers Trent John Alexander, Dean Donny Huijsen, and Alvaro Carreras, as well as the national player Arda Güler, who is entering his 3rd season with the purple and white team, in the starting 11.
NO GOALS IN THE FIRST HALF
Although most of the first half of the match was spent in Osasuna's half, Real Madrid, which was ineffective in the final touches, could not find the goal it was looking for, and the teams went to the locker room with a score of 0-0. Just at the beginning of the second half, after being brought down in the penalty area by an opponent, Real Madrid's French player Kylian Mbappe converted the penalty awarded to put his team ahead 1-0.
ARDA STAYED ON THE FIELD FOR 90 MINUTES
Arda left his place for Daniel Ceballos in the 90th minute of the match. Due to the hot weather, the quality of football was low, and as there were no more goals in the later minutes of the match, Real Madrid defeated Osasuna 1-0 at home, starting the league with 3 points. Arda began to solidify his place in the starting 11 alongside Xabi Alonso.
The Spanish coach had fielded Arda in the starting 11 in 7 of the pre-season matches, while the national player had been on the field from the first minute in 4 of the 5 matches in the World Club Cup.
In the 2023-2024 LaLiga season, Arda scored 6 goals in 10 matches, while last season he played in 28 league matches and scored 3 goals. One of the important moments of the match was when Real Madrid's new transfer, 18-year-old Argentine forward Franco Mastantuono, who was introduced to the press earlier in the week, entered the game in the 68th minute in place of Brahim Diaz, with great support from the purple and white fans. The match was also watched from the stands by Arda Güler's father, Ümit Güler, and mother, Serap Güler.