Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso spoke to the media after recording his first La Liga win \u2014 a 1-0 triumph over Osasuna on Tuesday night. Alonso was asked about whether this defensive partnership of Eder Militao and Dean Huijsen is the way to go this season, to which he said: \u201cWhoever deserves to play will play. Nobody is guaranteed a spot in the XI, but of course, I\u2019m very happy with Huijsen and Militao. And Carvajal, who\u2019s already there, is very important on the pitch and in terms of morale.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were good things and things to improve. The road is long. We lacked a bit of freshness. The win gives us peace of mind. We have to analyse things to improve. There are positives, starting with the result. After two weeks of preseason, against a team that has had a longer preseason, there were some things missing, but it will give us stability to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso on Osasuna\u2019s game plan<\/p>\n
\u201cOsasuna played their game. We expected a higher block from them. They demanded a lot from us, but we were able to play a lot in their half and not let them pass. We\u2019ve had little time to work on this. We\u2019re learning, because we\u2019re sure to play more of these games and keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like he wants more, you can tell from the first day. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because of the number 10, but it\u2019s noticeable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing\u2019s happening. The Club World Cup was a different context, now behind us. I\u2019m counting on him; it\u2019s just a one-off game. If he\u2019s still getting those minutes in three months, it\u2019ll be a different story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso on players\u2019 debuts<\/p>\n
\u201cThey weren\u2019t bothered by the shirt or the Bernab\u00e9u. All four of them performed well. They weren\u2019t nervous at all, generally good. I\u2019m very happy to be here, in this new Bernab\u00e9u, to experience how it sounds…\u201d Very good, really. They all landed on their feet, those who played in the World Cup and Franco, who made his debut today, are players we\u2019ll have here for years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso on Franco Mastantuono<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like I liked it, right? I was really looking forward to it, and sometimes the emotional aspect outweighs the emotional aspect. That\u2019s good news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso spoke to the media after recording his first La Liga win \u2014 a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[829,64725,403,99],"class_list":["post-95760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-latest-news","tag-real-madrid-cf-la-liga","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95760","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=95760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}