{"id":528,"date":"2025-09-22T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:33:38","slug":"xabi-alonso-picks-out-real-madrid-player-that-has-pleasantly-surprised-him-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/xabi-alonso-picks-out-real-madrid-player-that-has-pleasantly-surprised-him-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso picks out Real Madrid player that has \u2018pleasantly surprised him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Real Madrid could hardly have planned for a better start to the season, particularly after their Club World Cup elimination at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, with six games won out of their opening six fixtures. That start has been underpinned by major contributions from new signings, and fresh Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n

Los Blancos have done so with Trent Alexander-Arnold injured for the past two games, without Jude Bellingham until the closing minutes of their win against Espanyol, and with Vinicius Junior blowing somewhat hot and cold.<\/p>\n

Xabi Alonso picks out Real Madrid man that has surprised him<\/h2>\n

Nevertheless, there have been standouts for Real Madrid beyond Mbappe, and one garnering increasing praise is Alvaro Carreras. Brought back to the club after a sojourn to Manchester United, Preston North End and then Benfica at the price of \u20ac50m, Carreras has been omnipresent for Alonso thus far<\/a>. He told the press he had been surprised by his impact.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was optimistic, I have, we have been following him for a while, but his personality and competitiveness have very pleasantly surprised me. He makes very few mistakes and has a great mentality. It\u2019s surprising how quickly he\u2019s impacted that position. We also have Fran [Garcia], David [Alaba] and Ferland [Mendy] for that position. But his performance has been excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alonso taking it slow with Eduardo Camavinga<\/h2>\n

The Basque manager confirmed that both Eduardo Camavinga and Jude Bellingham would be ready to start against Levante<\/a> on Tuesday night, but noted that he was keen not to rush things with the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m a bit cautious with him. He\u2019s been with us a while, but has not been available much. I know him from watching him, from how he interprets the game. He has enormous potential, a lot of qualities, and there\u2019s a place for him within the project. He\u2019s keen, he\u2019s willing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Real Madrid could hardly have planned for a better start to the season, particularly after their Club World Cup elimination at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, with six games won out of their opening six fixtures. That start has been underpinned by major contributions from new signings, and fresh Kylian Mbappe. Los Blancos have done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leistergame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}