{"id":414990,"date":"2026-01-15T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:22:08","slug":"the-carabao-cup-semis-and-more-upheaval-at-real-madrid-football-weekly-video-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414990\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carabao Cup semis and more upheaval at Real Madrid: Football Weekly \u2013 video | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Philippe Auclair, Dan Bardell and Sid Lowe as Xabi Alonso leaves Real Madrid and the Carabao Cup semi-finals begin.<\/p>\n<p>On the podcast today: Arsenal win at Stamford Bridge in their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg, but it was still a decent showing for Liam Rosenior in his first home game in charge at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, in the other semi-final, Manchester City won 2-0 at Newcastle in a game overshadowed by a very, very long VAR check. The panel try to spend less time discussing it than the check itself too.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the pod discuss the Afcon semi-finals, Xabi Alonso leaving Real Madrid and your questions answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Philippe Auclair, Dan Bardell and Sid Lowe as Xabi Alonso leaves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-414990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}