{"id":829057,"date":"2026-07-28T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829057\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:46:13","slug":"chelsea-vs-western-sydney-wanderers-friendly-live-score-and-match-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829057\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs. Western Sydney Wanderers\u2014Friendly: Live Score and Match Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7m\">The Xabi Alonso era unofficially begins for Chelsea with a friendly against Western Sydney Wanderers in Australia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7p\">After a turbulent season spent under the watch of three different coaches, the Blues pulled off the coup of the summer by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/key-factor-xabi-alonso-chelsea-over-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">convincing Alonso to join<\/a>. Unburdened by any European competition, there will be plenty of time for the Basque boss to theoretically get this ideas across. That starts now.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7s\">Alonso\u2019s first task is to find a way of getting past a Wanderers side which finished bottom of the Australian top flight last term. Performances are more important than results at this premature stage of the summer, so all eyes will be on the ever-changing cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/chelsea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> talent trying to impress yet another new figure in the dugout.<\/p>\n<p>Live Match TrackerMatch MomentumMatch StatsMatch SummaryREAD THE LATEST MAN UTD NEWS, ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT FROM SI FC<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Xabi Alonso era unofficially begins for Chelsea with a friendly against Western Sydney Wanderers in Australia on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-829057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829057","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=829057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}