Mbappé Hat-Trick Powers Real Madrid 5-0

Kylian Mbappé scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid routed Kairat Almaty 5-0 in their Champions League group-stage match in Almaty. Mbappé opened from the penalty spot after Kairat keeper Sherkhan Kalmurza fouled Franco Mastantuono, then lobbed a second from a long Thibaut Courtois pass and finished a superb strike for his third. Substitutes Eduardo Camavinga and Brahim Díaz added late goals as Madrid dominated the underlying numbers (3.32 xG to Kairat’s 0.36). The win highlighted Kairat’s inexperience — the Kazakh side are Champions League debutants with a markedly lower squad market value and featuring teenagers such as Dastan Satpayev and Kalmurza — and provisionally put Real atop their group. The treble was Mbappé’s fourth Champions League hat-trick (three away), putting him level with the competition record for away hat-tricks, and Courtois became only the second Madrid goalkeeper to register a Champions League assist.