{"id":29967,"date":"2025-08-31T05:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vinicius-shines-and-xabi-alonso-praises-after-real-madrid-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:09:19","slug":"vinicius-shines-and-xabi-alonso-praises-after-real-madrid-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/vinicius-shines-and-xabi-alonso-praises-after-real-madrid-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin\u00edcius shines and Xabi Alonso praises after Real Madrid victory"},"content":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso praised Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior&#8217;s performance after the match in which the Real Madrid forward celebrated his return to the team by scoring a goal in the 2-1 victory over Mallorca on Saturday.\n\nMadrid found themselves trailing after Vedat Muriqi&#8217;s header for Mallorca at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, but two goals in a minute from Arda G\u00fcler and Vin\u00edcius turned the score around.\n\nIt was the second goal in two games for Vin\u00edcius, who also scored from the bench last week against Real Oviedo, which ensured that Madrid went into the international break with three wins from three in LaLiga.\n\nConfirmed match schedule for the Champions League\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[Vin\u00edcius] played well. It was a better match for him than against Osasuna and it was an important goal to put us ahead&#8230; I am happy with Vini&#8217;s game, he is scoring goals and that is important.<\/p><cite>Alonso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMadrid had three goals disallowed by VAR against Mallorca: two by Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, disallowed for offside, and one by G\u00fcler for an involuntary handball.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0830%2Fr1538934_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior scored Real Madrid&#039;s decisive goal in their win over Mallorca.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior marc\u00f3 el gol decisivo del Real Madrid en su victoria sobre Mallorca.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nAlonso commented that he was happy with his team&#8217;s trajectory so far this season, with their three victories before the break, which came after a shortened pre-season.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I would like to continue, and to have the players here. But we knew that in these three matches, after a mini pre-preseason, it was important to compete, to keep improving things, defining the path we want.<\/p><cite>Alonso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMadrid will play again on September 13, when they visit Real Sociedad.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xabi Alonso praised Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior&#8217;s performance after the match in which the Real Madrid forward celebrated his return to the team by scoring a goal in the 2-1 victory over Mallorca on Saturday. Madrid found themselves trailing after Vedat Muriqi&#8217;s header for Mallorca at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, but two goals in a minute from Arda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2206,254,402,1110],"class_list":{"0":"post-29967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-mallorca","9":"tag-real-madrid","10":"tag-vinicius-junior","11":"tag-xabi-alonso"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29967","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=29967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}