Xabi Alonso reacts to Real Madrid\u2019s draw against Al Hilal<\/h2>\n
It was not a good day for Real Madrid, and as per Diario AS<\/a>, Alonso gave his thoughts on proceedings when he spoke to the media post-match at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.<\/p>\n \u201cThe match had a mixture of everything. The result is a shame, in the second half we were much better. I didn\u2019t like the first half too much, it will help us to see what to improve. In the second best we had more balance, we were better with the ball, we sank them more, but we lacked the goal. I\u2019ll take that and we\u2019ll learn from that.<\/p>\n \u201cI know that there are things to improve. That just like there is. I saw a reaction in the second half. Everything takes time. There have only been three training sessions. The demand for the result is there, but what we want to be takes time.\u201d<\/p>\n Alonso spoke on debutants Dean Huijsen and Trent Alexander-Arnold, while he also gave an update on Kylian Mbappe, who missed out against Al Hilal due to illness.<\/p>\n \u201cDean has been very good and Trent has gone from less to more, like everyone else. Happy for them. We have to see how Mbappe evolves, in the last two days he has been bad\u2026 We have to see how he is.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s clear that Real Madrid must improve in they are to go far in the Club World Cup. A victory over Pachuca this weekend will be essential for their hopes of reaching the knockout stages.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Xabi Alonso reacts to Dean Huijsen and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Real Madrid debuts<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid failed to start their 2025 Club World Cup campaign with a win, having been held to a 1-1 draw by Al…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"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\/953"}],"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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Alonso reacts to performances of two Real Madrid debutants<\/h2>\n
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