Real Madrid CF 4-1 Sevilla FC: Primera Division Match Report, 18 October 2026

Sevilla arrived at the Bernabéu unbeaten away from home this season and left having conceded four. Real Madrid CF 4-1 Sevilla FC was 2-0 at the break, and Madrid won the second half too, 2-1, so Sevilla's goal came after the interval in a half they still lost. No call went out from us: the match fell on 18 October, the final day of the month-long gap in the site's updates.

The table had them fourth and fifth, four points apart, and the goal differences were further apart than the points: Madrid had eighteen from eight at plus eleven, Sevilla fourteen from eight at plus one. At home Madrid had been flawless: four wins from four, thirteen goals scored and two conceded, and four goals in three of those matches (4-1 against Real Sociedad, 4-0 against Málaga and 4-1 against Rayo Vallecano). The exception was the most recent, 1-0 against Villarreal eight days earlier. Both of their defeats had come on the road, at Real Betis and at Club Atlético de Madrid.

Sevilla's season had a split of its own. Both of their defeats had come at home, each 1-3, to Atlético and Barcelona; away from home they were unbeaten in four, with two wins and two draws, the latest a 3-3 at Levante six days earlier in which they had led at half-time.

From 2-0 at the interval, the fixture went the way the four previous meetings on record had gone. Madrid had won all four — 4-2 and 2-0 at the Bernabéu, 2-0 and 1-0 at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán — and Sevilla had not scored in the three since that 4-2 in December 2024. They did here, once.

Madrid moved to twenty-one points from nine matches, seven wins and the two away defeats, with a goal difference of plus fourteen. Five home league matches had now produced five wins, seventeen goals and three conceded. Last season they finished second on eighty-six points, eight behind Barcelona, at a rate of about 2.26 a game; twenty-one from nine is a touch ahead of that. The gap between the two clubs widened from four points to seven.

Sevilla stay on fourteen from nine, and the goal difference drops from plus one to minus two. The unbeaten away record is gone, two wins, two draws and now a defeat from five, and so is the impression of a tight defence: they had let in nine goals in their first seven matches, then seven in the two that followed, three at Levante and four here. For a club that finished on forty-three points last season, fourteen from nine is still a strong start.

A defeat at the Bernabéu is not a crisis for a side that started the day fifth, and with twenty-nine rounds left nothing in this part of the table is decided.