While Fernandez\u2019s exit looks increasingly likely, Pedro Neto finds himself in a similarly precarious position. Several heavyweight Premier League rivals are monitoring the Portuguese winger, who was deployed in an unfamiliar wing-back role against Brighton.<\/p>\n
Despite the speculation, Neto delivered a standout performance, finding the back of the net and posing a constant threat. When pressed on whether the forward would definitely remain in west London, Alonso refused to make any concrete promises.<\/p>\n
“No, in football I don’t guarantee anything, not anyone,” Alonso admitted. “But I was very happy with Pedro. He did really well, he played with a lot of energy. He is going to be very important for the team for the whole season because he has different special qualities.<\/p>\n
“He is a threat in one-v-one, he attacks very well in the space, he is strong, he is competitive. I am happy that he scored, he was really close to scoring another one. I am very happy with Pedro.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Fernandez\u2019s exit looks increasingly likely, Pedro Neto finds himself in a similarly precarious position. Several heavyweight Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57731,4027,271101,78358,85,46,2617,271719,2619,105,9461,199699],"class_list":["post-601397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brighton-hove-albion","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-vs-brighton-hove-albion","tag-e-fernandez","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-city","tag-p-neto","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-x-alonso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}