{"id":113113,"date":"2026-03-12T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alexander-arnold-madrid-was-going-to-be-thrashed-by-city-but-won-3-0-in-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:55:09","slug":"alexander-arnold-madrid-was-going-to-be-thrashed-by-city-but-won-3-0-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/alexander-arnold-madrid-was-going-to-be-thrashed-by-city-but-won-3-0-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander-Arnold: Madrid &#8220;was going to be thrashed&#8221; by City, but won 3-0 in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"Trent Alexander-Arnold highlighted Real Madrid&#8217;s mentality and game plan after their 3-0 victory over Manchester City in the Champions League.\n\nAlexander-Arnold praised the team&#8217;s performance, mentioning that many expected a different result, but the team proved their worth.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We show the mentality. No matter what injuries you have, what players are out. This competition means a lot to the club and we as players understand it&#8230; We executed the game plan to perfection in the first half.<\/p><cite>Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFederico Valverde shone with a hat-trick in the first half, securing the lead for Madrid at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. The only negative note was a missed penalty by Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior in the second half.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0312%2Fr1627241_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Real Madrid ran out 3-0 winners against Manchester City.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nMadrid arrived at the match against City with several important absences, including Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Jude Bellingham, \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o, Rodrygo, \u00c1lvaro Carreras, David Alaba and Dani Ceballos.\n\nAlexander-Arnold acknowledged that, based on recent results, City could have been considered the favorite, but emphasized that in the Champions League any team can beat another. He highlighted the team&#8217;s effectiveness in scoring goals.\n\nMadrid is four points behind Barcelona in the race for the LaLiga title. Their results in Europe, including defeats against Liverpool, City and Benfica, have reduced their chances of winning the Champions League.\n\nAlexander-Arnold concluded that, in high-magnitude matches like this one, players know they must perform at the highest level.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Alexander-Arnold highlighted Real Madrid&#8217;s mentality and game plan after their 3-0 victory over Manchester City in the Champions League. Alexander-Arnold praised the team&#8217;s performance, mentioning that many expected a different result, but the team proved their worth. We show the mentality. No matter what injuries you have, what players are out. This competition means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[12220,270,1200,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-113113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-arnold","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-manchester-city","11":"tag-real-madrid"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}