Real Madrid beat Elche 3-2 at the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero on September 15, 2026, Carlos Espí settling it a minute into stoppage time. Elche had been two goals down at half-time and level with seven minutes of normal time left.
The margin is one goal. The shape of the evening was not that tidy.
How the Goals Fell
Per La Liga fixture data from api-sports.io, retrieved September 16, 2026, the scoring ran in this order:
- 25’ — an own goal put Real Madrid 1-0 ahead
- 33’ — Kylian Mbappé, assisted by Yan Diomande, for 2-0
- 71’ — Abiel Alessio Osorio, assisted by Lucas Cepeda, for 2-1
- 83’ — Fernando Niño Rodríguez, assisted by José Antonio Ferrández Pomares, for 2-2
- 90+1’ — Carlos Espí, assisted by Mbappé, for the 3-2 win
Half-time was 0-2. Full-time was 2-3. Kick-off had been at 19:30 UTC.
Elche Got the Comeback and Not the Point
Twelve minutes separated Osorio’s goal from Niño’s equaliser, and in that window Elche turned a match they were losing comfortably into one they were not losing at all. Then they conceded in the ninety-first minute.
Read only as a line in a results column, this is a narrow away win. That reading misses the interesting part. A side that has just erased a two-goal deficit has spent a lot of itself doing it, and the goal that beat Elche arrived in the first minute of added time — the point in a match where that cost tends to show up.
Worth noting who supplied it: Mbappé scored the second and assisted the fifth. His name is on both ends of Real Madrid’s evening.
A Ragged Finish
Six yellow cards were shown. Four went to Elche — Marc Aguado on 31 minutes, Cepeda on 78, Ferrández Pomares in the third minute of stoppage time, Gonzalo Villar in the fourth. Two went to Real Madrid, Diomande on four minutes and Ibrahima Konaté on 73.
Three of those four Elche bookings came after the 78th minute. The card count is not a scoreline, but the distribution tells you what the closing stretch of this one felt like.
Round Six of the La Liga Season
The match was round six of the La Liga regular season, played at Elche’s Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero on September 15, 2026. Four of the five goals came after the half-hour mark, and three of those in the last twenty minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was the final score in Elche vs Real Madrid?
Real Madrid won 3-2. Elche scored on 71 and 83 minutes to wipe out a 0-2 half-time deficit, then conceded again in the first minute of stoppage time.
Who scored the winning goal for Real Madrid against Elche?
Carlos Espí, in the first minute of stoppage time, from an assist by Kylian Mbappé.