{"id":1203,"date":"2025-06-19T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:23:12","slug":"the-first-half-will-serve-us-to-insist-on-what-we-have-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/the-first-half-will-serve-us-to-insist-on-what-we-have-to-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The first half will serve us to insist on what we have to improve&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-37.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-37-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-37-768x504.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso was very disappointed with the draw in the Club World Cup opener. He was pleased with the second half &#8211; he didn&#8217;t like the first &#8211; and congratulated Huijsen and Alexander-Arnold on their debuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Xabi Alonso era at Madrid began with a draw (1-1). Al Hilal made things difficult from the start for the Spanish team, which could not do anything to achieve victory in the Club World Cup opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Merengue\u2019 coach, speaking to &#8216;DAZN&#8217; made an assessment of the match: &#8220;A mixture of everything. The result was a shame, we were better in the second half. I didn&#8217;t like the first half too much, but it will help us to keep insisting on what we have to improve. We had some balance and we pushed them further down. I&#8217;m sticking to the second half, which was much better&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Xabi Alonso explained where his team went wrong in the first half: &#8220;We were rushing. We wanted to go too fast. We lacked a goal. The missed penalty can happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the Toulouse-born player congratulated debutants Huijsen and Alexander-Arnold. The Spanish international completed the full 90 minutes, while the Briton played 65&#8242;. &#8220;Dean has been very good and Trent has gone from strength to strength like the whole team,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso was very disappointed wit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}