{"id":70178,"date":"2025-07-10T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70178"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:03:19","slug":"fifa-club-world-cup-we-suffered-against-psg-says-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/10\/fifa-club-world-cup-we-suffered-against-psg-says-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Club World Cup: We Suffered Against PSG, Says Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has admitted that his team was thoroughly outclassed by Paris Saint-Germain in their FIFA Club World Cup semi-final clash on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat to the UEFA Champions League winners at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, crashing out of the tournament at the semi-final stage.<\/p>\n<p>Costly defensive errors saw Madrid on the back foot early, and they never recovered against Luis Enrique\u2019s in-form PSG side.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Alonso acknowledged the gulf in quality between both teams and emphasized the need for reflection and improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to analyse and learn from,\u201d Alonso told Football Espana. \u201cWe now know where we are, where to look, and where we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He praised PSG\u2019s cohesion and admitted his team is still at the early stage of their development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPSG are a team. We have just begun our journey. We suffered and it was difficult. There are many things we want to do better. It hurts today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss marking the end of Madrid\u2019s 2024\/25 season, Alonso said the team will regroup and prepare for a fresh start in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has admitted that his team was thoroughly outclassed by Paris Saint-Germain in their FIFA Club World Cup semi-final clash on Wednesday. Madrid suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat to the UEFA Champions League winners at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, crashing out of the tournament at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70180,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70178\/revisions\/70180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}