{"id":1470,"date":"2025-08-20T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:59:04","slug":"rodrygo-left-on-bench-again-as-man-city-watch-closely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/rodrygo-left-on-bench-again-as-man-city-watch-closely\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrygo left on bench again as Man City watch closely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-26.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-26-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-26-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodrygo endured another frustrating night on Tuesday as he failed to play a single minute in Real Madrid\u2019s 1-0 victory over Osasuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brazilian remained an unused substitute as Kylian Mbappe&#8217;s penalty secured a winning start in La Liga for new coach Xabi Alonso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It marks the second consecutive game without action for the forward, raising further questions about his role under Alonso. Despite his status as a regular in recent seasons, Rodrygo has yet to feature in the opening stages of the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester City are keeping a close eye on the situation, though any move will depend on the future of Savinho. City would only make an approach for Rodrygo if the Brazilian winger completes a transfer to Tottenham, a deal which is currently blocked by the club&#8217;s hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, Rodrygo&#8217;s immediate challenge is to win back his place in Alonso&#8217;s plans at Madrid. But with City monitoring developments closely, his future could yet become one of the major talking points of the summer window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrygo endured another frustrating night on Tuesday as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","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\/1470","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=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}