Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso praised his team after their 3-1 victory over Villarreal, with special mentions for two-goal scorer Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, as he said, \u201che played a very good match, not just because of the goal. In the first half, he was very unbalancing. I like to see Vini smile. I\u2019m happy for him and for the team, we wanted to end this cycle on a high note\u201d.<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on changes at half-time<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we needed more speed in the first half. When we got there, we created chances, but we lacked dynamism. Marcelino\u2019s teams are very well prepared and despite everything we had chances to score and at half-time I told them we were playing a good game, that we had to play calmly. It was a serious game and now we move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on Jude Bellingham<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be better when he comes back after two weeks of training. He\u2019s going to be very important in the next phase in October. We\u2019re going to have the time that Jude missed in pre-season and we have a busy schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKylian will continue to take them, he\u2019s the penalty taker, but today they decided among themselves who would take them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on Kylian Mbapp\u00e9\u2018s sprain<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t say whether he\u2019ll play for France or not, they\u2019ll have to assess him in their national team. If it gets complicated, he won\u2019t be able to play, but we can\u2019t say anything right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on the refereeing<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Marcelino didn\u2019t want to talk about it, I\u2019m not going to get into it either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on Fede Valverde<\/p>\n
\u201cA very good game on the right wing. He\u2019s always willing to play wherever he\u2019s needed. He helped us a lot in the transitions, a great game from Fede.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on Valverde\u2019s position<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve all seen how he\u2019s played. He had a very good game, and today, due to our needs, he played there. He\u2019s very generous, he wants to feel useful wherever he plays. He\u2019s never put up any obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on whether he\u2019d start Bellingham in the derby given the choice again<\/p>\n
\u201cMy answer won\u2019t make any difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso on whether this was Vini\u2019s most complete game with him<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very good game. He also played very well against Levante. He\u2019s very important to the team because of his ability to unbalance the opposition and everything he creates. We saw a great game from him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso praised his team after their 3-1 victory over Villarreal, with special mentions for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,95176,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-190489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-real-madrid-cf-coach","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}