It could have been worse, had Andriy Lunin not made an outstanding save in stoppage time to stop Talavera from equalising. The Ukrainian goalkeeper spoke to the media post-match, and as per Marca<\/a>, he was asked about whether he had saved Alonso\u2019s job by stopping the tie from going to extra time.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think this way. It\u2019s my job, what I\u2019ve been doing since I was little. I have to help the team and always be ready. I don\u2019t know who can doubt Xabi, we don\u2019t doubt our coach. We are a group and we are all in the same boat.\u00a0I don\u2019t know who doubts it, the fans or the press, but in the end we don\u2019t care because we concentrate on our work.\u201d<\/p>\n Lunin was also asked to explain the difference between how things have been from now with Alonso to Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s spell in charge at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to understand that every coach is different. Ancelotti was older, with experience and having won everything in his career.\u00a0Xabi is young, everyone respects him, there are new developments and it\u2019s a normal process of adaptation and change.\u201d<\/p>\n It remains to be seen whether Real Madrid senior officials have anything to say about Alonso\u2019s position in the aftermath of the performance against Talavera. He should get Saturday\u2019s La Liga match at home to Sevilla, but a poor result in that one could see the writing on the ball for the former Bayer Leverkusen head coach.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Real Madrid star issues strong defence on Xabi Alonso – “We don’t doubt our coach”<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid were victorious against Talavara on Wednesday, albeit it was a far from convincing performance. Two goals from Kylian Mbappe and an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cf-talavera-v-real-madrid-copa-del-rey-min-1-scaled.jpg\")
Lunin explains differences between Alonso and Ancelotti<\/h2>\n