{"id":803559,"date":"2026-10-15T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803559\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:34:13","slug":"how-really-smart-trey-nyoni-has-impressed-andoni-iraola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803559\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;really smart&#8217; Trey Nyoni has impressed Andoni Iraola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__lead__LA_9t\">The 19-year-old hit another milestone in his career on Wednesday evening by earning a first Champions League start in the 6-3 victory away at LASK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">That occasion in Austria was the midfielder&#8217;s 26th competitive appearance for the club, having made his senior debut back in February 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">&#8220;Trey is a player that I think, being very young with not a lot of minutes in the first team, he&#8217;s very mature,&#8221; Iraola told reporters. &#8220;He understands the situations very well, he understands the game very well. Tactically, I think he&#8217;s really smart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">&#8220;But he has to continue doing the steps in the right direction. I&#8217;m confident with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">&#8220;He has been involved, I think, in most of the last games, but he has to keep this level of performance, of training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">&#8220;If he has to play as a six, as an eight, he has to play one minute, he doesn&#8217;t have to play, he has to start and play all the game like yesterday \u2013 he has to be there, putting pressure also on the other midfielders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">&#8220;And I think it&#8217;s very good for us that we can put [in] these young players with not a lot of experience and they can perform in a competition like the Champions League or in the Premier League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"video-embed_videoEmbed__title__BD_Nz\" data-testid=\"video-embed__title\">Andoni Iraola&#8217;s pre-Brentford press conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 19-year-old hit another milestone in his career on Wednesday evening by earning a first Champions League start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[137252,218,101,128405,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-andoni-iraola","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-trey-nyoni","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}