{"id":238164,"date":"2025-10-20T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238164\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:36:07","slug":"xabi-alonso-tells-real-madrid-to-target-barcelonas-weak-link-in-el-clasico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238164\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso tells Real Madrid to target Barcelona\u2019s \u2018weak link in El Clasico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona are set to face Real Madrid on Sunday in El Clasico in a game that will see the two old rivals renew hostilities once again in the Spanish top flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ahead of the game, a new report has claimed that Xabi Alonso has already identified a \u201cweak spot\u201d in the Barcelona team and wants his side to take advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Madrid boss reportedly thinks that while Lamine Yamal is Barca\u2019s best player, along with Pedri, he is a weak link when it comes to tracking back and defending, according to Defensa Central.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alonso therefore wants his team to try to hurt Barcelona down Yamal\u2019s flank. \u201cWe have to attack him there, we can do damage&#8230; \u201d is apparently the word from the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Madrid head into the game after losing all four matches against Barcelona last season and will surely be out for revenge after their bitter rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They will face a Barcelona team without several key stars due to injury. Raphinha is expected back in time for the game but Joan Garcia, Gavi and Robert Lewandowski will all be missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona are set to face Real Madrid on Sunday in El Clasico in a game that will see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1480,1481,403,99],"class_list":["post-238164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238164","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=238164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}