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Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 3-0<\/a> on Wednesday, and the star of the show was all-action midfielder Fede Valverde. The Uruguay international scored all three goals in the first half, as he notched the first hat-trick of his career.<\/p>\n As per Diario AS<\/a>, Valverde spoke post-match to Movistar+, and he could not contain his delight on a special night for him and his Real Madrid teammates.<\/p>\n \u201cIncredible, you dream of nights like this. I would like to thank my teammates for the necessary confidence they give me to be in good spirits, also the coaching staff and the fans, who are always supporting. It\u2019s a difficult season and they always support us. I thank them for that. For sure (it\u2019s the best match of my career), especially in goals. I really enjoyed today. It had been a long time since I enjoyed himself this way.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI tried to play in a more attacking role. That\u2019s what the coach asks of me, that I come from the second line, that I attack. Today we had many more players with the ball and I tried to attack more. My teammates gave me incredible assists, and I thank them for that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \n Not only was Valverde delighted at his attacking contributions, he was also pleased at how he and his teammates worked together in defence to ensure a clean sheet.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to treat each other as brothers, defend each other, help each other, watch each other\u2019s backs. You can tell if the team is united, if we work together we can win great things. The last minutes we were tired, but the team kept working.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \n Real Madrid are firm favourites to progress to the Champions League quarter-finals due to their three-goal advantage from the first leg, although Valverde is taking nothing for granted ahead of Tuesday\u2019s visit to the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that in Manchester it is very difficult, they press a lot, their fans get behind their team. We have to go there as if it is still 0-0 and work well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Real Madrid hero Fede Valverde reacts to Manchester City win – “My teammates gave me incredible assists”<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 3-0 on Wednesday, and the star of the show was all-action midfielder Fede Valverde. The Uruguay international scored…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5488,"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\/5486"}],"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=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Valverde on Real Madrid game plan<\/h2>\n
Valverde looks ahead to return leg<\/h2>\n