\u201cThese things happen in the Copa del Rey. To us and to other teams. With the 1-3, which was important, we conceded a goal and they pressed. Talavera has come out on top. We controlled the first half well and not scoring that 0-3 left the game open. It was a competitive tie. An exciting cup tie. A special competition. Objective accomplished and let\u2019s see the next one.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe objective was to go through. We have done that and that is why I leave satisfied and happy. We have lacked something that we have been talking about, continuity and being more consistent in our performance during the games. Close the games because things can happen; to be more mature.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso also spoke on Kylian Mbappe, who scored two of Real Madrid\u2019s three goals at El Prado, and whether his side are too reliant on the French forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was decisive with the two goals. Kylian always has a knack for scoring goals. The third goal was key and that\u2019s why we kept him on the pitch. The numbers are the numbers. Rodrygo has had an important participation. We need other people to have that efficiency. We\u2019ve had chances all year and we could have scored more goals, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Alonso also shared his thoughts on David Jimenez and Jorge Cestero, both of whom made their debuts for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n \u201cI know them well from the season they are having at Castilla. They are playing at a good level. David has completed 90 minutes very stable; he doesn\u2019t burn the ball, he crossed well\u2026 and Jorge Cestero is a very nice player project that we have at Castilla.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso reacts to narrow Talavera victory – “These things happen in the Copa del Rey”<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid secured their progression to the next round of the Copa del Rey with a narrow 3-2 victory over Talavera on Wednesday.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4047,"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\/4045"}],"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=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"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-1-min-scaled.jpg\")
Xabi Alonso reacts to Real Madrid debutants<\/h2>\n