INCREDIBLE: Mbappé's Real Madrid is... Fourteenth in the LaLiga standings!

Real Madrid closed the first day of LaLiga EA Sports in 14th place in the standings. The draw of Carlo Ancelotti's men in Mallorca (1-1) left the 'merengues' far from the top zone, where FC Barcelona is. The culés were one of the four clubs that debuted with victory, along with Celta, Rayo and Valladolid, on a date that had up to six draws, one of them that of the current champion in Son Moix.

Despite having Kylian Mbappé and all his figures in the lineup, Madrid could not overcome a Mallorca that is just beginning a new cycle with Jagoba Arrasate on the bench. Rodrygo Goes opened the scoring in the 13th minute, but Vedad Muriqi equalized in the 53rd minute. With more than half an hour of game left, 'Carletto''s men showed the shortcomings of an unbalanced scheme with a lot of gunpowder in attack, but little game development. In the end, the locals could have even won the match, if it weren't for the interventions of Courtois and Militao.

The devastating data that threatens Madrid's two-time championship

For Madrid, the bad news after their debut in Mallorca has to do with a historical fact. And, in the 93 previous editions of LaLiga, no team that has played the first day of the tournament against the Balearic team has emerged as champion. Furthermore, the 'White House' has not achieved a double in the League for 35 years with the same coach. The last to achieve this was the German Leo Beenhakker, in the 88-89 and 89-90 seasons (that Madrid won five titles in a row).

For the whites, the two-time championship has been an unattainable goal since 2008, when they lifted the title with Bernd Schuster. A year earlier, Fabio Capello had also won LaLiga before being fired. Barça, on the other hand, won three consecutive championships with Pep Guardiola (2009, 2010 and 2011) and achieved doubles with Luis Enrique (2015 and 2016) and Ernesto Valverde (2018 and 2019) in that period.