Jude Bellingham FINALLY ends his long Real Madrid goal drought – by doing what Thierry Henry said he was ‘upset’ with Kylian Mbappe over – but team-mates are in tears as injury crisis hits

Jude Bellingham scored his first club goal of the season on Saturday to end a drought that had lasted almost six months.

The former Borussia Dortmund player netted 23 goals for Madrid last season but had gone 14 games without scoring prior to this weekend’s La Liga clash with Osasuna at the Bernabeu.

Bellingham ended his dry spell in style with a cheeky lobbed finish that appeared to suggest that he had not lost any confidence despite his poor run of scoring form.

He ran onto a long-range through pass from Raul Asencio before calmly lifting the ball over the keeper’s head with his first touch.

The goal was a product of something Thierry Henry recently claimed Bellingham was doing too much during Madrid games.

Henry claimed following Madrid’s 3-1 defeat by AC Milan earlier in the week that Bellingham was making too many runs in behind the opposition.

However, Henry’s criticism was seemingly aimed at Kylian Mbappe, rather than Bellingham, with the Arsenal legend suggesting that the English No 10 was making those runs reluctantly because his team-mate was not.

Henry said during his analysis for CBS Sports: ‘It’s always Bellingham trying to make the run, trying to make the team play, running in behind, trying to break the line.

‘I think there is a little frustration. Your nine isn’t going, and your 10 is going. I know it can happen sometimes but not all the time. Every single time.

‘I know he (Mbappe) is not a [natural] number nine and that this maybe is not what he likes to do.

‘Do you think he (Bellingham) likes to make those runs, try and stretch the team? He’ll do it because he has to do it, because his desire speaks, his will speaks.

‘You don’t win games like that. You don’t win games with your 10 breaking the line, coming back, trying to bend his run, trying to defend, trying to go the other side.’

Bellingham was substituted off in the 74th minute of Tuesday’s defeat by Milan.

He reacted angrily by kicking a bottle near the Madrid dugout.

‘I would have been upset too,’ Henry added. ‘I saw him kicking a bottle. I would be upset also, of course.’

Henry’s drought-busting goal against Osasuna on Saturday came in the 42nd minute of a mixed first half for Madrid.

Madrid went into the interval 2-0 up, after Bellingham had earlier assisted Vinicius Junior for the opener.

However, Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti was forced into two substitutions as central defender Eder Militao and fellow Brazilian Rodrygo both left the field in tears after picking up injuries.

Madrid went into Saturday’s game on the back of two disappointing defeats. Tuesday’s loss to Milan had come just 72 hours after a 4-0 Clasico thrashing by Barcelona.

More to follow.