{"id":153627,"date":"2025-09-13T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153627\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:08:28","slug":"sergio-francisco-xabi-alonso-has-changed-things-at-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153627\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Francisco: \u201cXabi Alonso has changed things at Real Madrid\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real Sociedad manager Sergio Francisco believes Xabi Alonso has changed a lot of things at Real Madrid, as the two managers are set to face off on Saturday afternoon at Anoeta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real Madrid want to make it four wins out of four La Liga matches under new management, while La Real are trying to get into the upper half of the league table in their new reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Francisco was asked about the biggest difference that Alonso has made during his time at Real Madrid so far, to which he gave a detailed, tactical answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He said: \u201cThey\u2019re the best in transition, we\u2019ll have to counter them and limit them, and then create our own. Xabi has changed things at Madrid. They want the ball more, they\u2019re more combinative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe aggressiveness after losing the ball, the level of the collective. Madrid sinks you in the opponent\u2019s half and also attacks space very well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMadrid is one of the best teams in the world, but we\u2019re playing at home and we have the people on our side. We have to improve on what we\u2019ve noticed we\u2019re lacking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real Sociedad and Real Madrid face off at 4:15 pm Spanish time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Sociedad manager Sergio Francisco believes Xabi Alonso has changed a lot of things at Real Madrid, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[64725,403,99],"class_list":["post-153627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-real-madrid-cf-la-liga","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}