{"id":505522,"date":"2025-12-08T01:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505522"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:47:15","slug":"alonso-under-pressure-after-another-real-madrid-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alonso-under-pressure-after-another-real-madrid-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso under pressure after another Real Madrid defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Blancos suffered a shocking loss vs. Celta Vigo at home in the league as they finished the game with 9 players, and the pressure on head coach Xabi Alonso is rising.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat means 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-placed Real Madrid, who will face Manchester City in the UCL during the week, remain 4 points behind the leader Barcelona as the Royal club won only 1 of their last 5 games in LaLiga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are disappointed as we didn\u2019t imagine that the match would go this way. The defeat is making us angry,\u201d Alonso shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must reach and get back to winning ways as soon as possible. Our team faces Man City in the Champions League on Wednesday, and that\u2019s a match that will give us a perfect chance to react.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was Celta\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> victory against Los Blancos in the league since 2014, as after that Real Madrid didn\u2019t lose 22 straight matches against them until now.<\/p>\n<p>This was Real Madrid\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> game since Trent Alexander-Arnold was ruled out for 2 months with a thigh problem, as his disappointing debut campaign continues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffb Xabi Alonso: \u201cI definitely do feel strong enough to turn this situation around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team wants to compete, we&#39;re on the right track\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa Liga is still very long. We can turn this around\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rKZYAsKK08\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rKZYAsKK08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1997885883186651163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Blancos suffered a shocking loss vs. Celta Vigo at home in the league as they finished the game with 9 players, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17375,19141],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[25864,19142],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Xabi must turn the tables quickly if he wants to keep his post.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505524,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505522\/revisions\/505524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505522"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505522"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}