{"id":20113,"date":"2026-01-12T21:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/xabi-alonso-reflected-his-flick-numbers-last-season\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:41:55","slug":"xabi-alonso-reflected-his-flick-numbers-last-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/xabi-alonso-reflected-his-flick-numbers-last-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso reflected his flick numbers last season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\"><span class=\"capital-letter\">\u00d7<\/span>Abi Alonso&#8217;s farewell did not receive strong support, at least from a numbers perspective. That&#8217;s because the Spaniard has won 24, drawn four and lost six out of his first 34 games in charge, a record that matched his flick for Barcelona at this stage last season.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/>Counting six games in the Club World Cup, the Whites suffered their first defeat against PSG (4-0), two defeats in La Liga (5-2 against Atl\u00e9tico, 0-2 against Celta), two more defeats in the Champions League (1-0 against Liverpool, 1-2 against City) and yesterday&#8217;s Supercopa final in El Clasico.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bala, on the other hand, ended his first 34 games with a win against Alaves on February 2nd. Firstly, their record in La Liga is much better than Madrid&#8217;s this year. At this stage, Flick&#8217;s side had lost five games (all before January) and drawn three, meaning the club had dropped 21 points from their first 19 games in the competition. Alonso&#8217;s side have dropped 12 points, including two away losses and three draws. Rose must add a sixth loss in their first Champions League match against Monaco (2-1).<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ue-c-article__summary\">\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-dailymotion\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Barcelona troll Real Madrid with controversial locker room dance after winning Super Cup<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Bar\u00e7a after January for reference<\/h2>\n<p>Real Madrid, now under Arbeloa, could therefore follow Barcelona&#8217;s example, especially in La Liga. Flick&#8217;s team finished as champions thanks to a comeback from January. They only lost one game in La Liga, the penultimate game at home against Villarreal (2-3), but they were already champions. The only game against Real Betis was a draw, and the rest were all wins in La Liga.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/football\/real-madrid\/2026\/01\/12\/6965378222601db53b8b45b2.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00d7Abi Alonso&#8217;s farewell did not receive strong support, at least from a numbers perspective. That&#8217;s because the Spaniard has won 24, drawn four and lost six out of his first 34 games in charge, a record that matched his flick for Barcelona at this stage last season.Counting six games in the Club World Cup, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Xabi Alonso reflected his flick numbers last season - EPL VIP \u2013 Latest English Premier League News &amp; Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/xabi-alonso-reflected-his-flick-numbers-last-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Xabi Alonso reflected his flick numbers last season - EPL VIP \u2013 Latest English Premier League News &amp; Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00d7Abi Alonso&#8217;s farewell did not receive strong support, at least from a numbers perspective. 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