{"id":899759,"date":"2026-10-30T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:42:09","slug":"xabi-alonso-tries-to-explain-his-estevao-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899759\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso tries to explain his Est\u00eav\u00e3o decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe started with Pedro, Morgan and Danny Welbeck, and the game had very intense moments. We knew it was going to be physical, and Malo had cramps, so we were a bit forced with substitutions. The season is going to be very long, and there will be moments for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe could be happier. He wants to play. I\u2019m sure Est\u00eav\u00e3o will have his moment, it is my responsibility. We know the game in England is really intense, and you need to be up for it. Est\u00eav\u00e3o is in his second season. The season is going to be long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">-Xabi Alonso; source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cv5ynwkndw61o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe started with Pedro, Morgan and Danny Welbeck, and the game had very intense moments. We knew it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[151932,403,99],"class_list":["post-899759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-chelsea-fc-players","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899759","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=899759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}