{"id":62189,"date":"2026-07-28T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/62189\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:20:09","slug":"real-madrid-take-on-leganes-for-an-in-house-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/62189\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid take on Legan\u00e9s for an in-house friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have just reached half-time in Real Madrid<\/a>‘s second pre-season match against Legan\u00e9s. Real Madrid took to the field with the following line-up: Lunin<\/a>, Alexander-Arnold, Huijsen, Asencio<\/a>, Carreras<\/a>, Camavinga<\/a>, Valverde<\/a>, G\u00fcler, Mastantuono<\/a>, Ciria (Castilla), Garc\u00eda. Attendance at the Estadio Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano was restricted to journalists and staff, with new signing Denzel Dumfries<\/a> amongst the few spectators.<\/p>\n

After a slow start to proceedings, with Madrid maintaining possession at almost walking-speed \u2013 we ended up seeing a good amount of action. Arda G\u00fcler linked up with Fede Valverde for the first chance of the game, but the Uruguayan could not get his toe to the delicate pass. The same combination would later open the scoring, this time with a combination along the floor allowing Fede to poke the ball home. Madrid would make it two straight after a drinks break, when a trademark Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/a> pass found Gonzalo Garc\u00eda<\/a>\u00a0who dinked the ball over the keeper to score. Trent was deployed very high up the pitch, and was a standout alongside Arda.<\/p>\n

Legan\u00e9s did pull a goal back with an unstoppable effort that left Andriy Lunin and his defence mesmerised. A great first-half test against a strong second division side \u2013 with the score currently reading 2-1 to the hosts ahead of the second period. Changes are expected at the break. Check out our socials for coverage for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have just reached half-time in Real Madrid‘s second pre-season match against Legan\u00e9s. Real Madrid took to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24937,3652,4297,24475,82,83,17,2978],"class_list":["post-62189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-alfredo-di-stefano-stadium","tag-denzel-dumfries","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-leganes","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-spain","tag-valverde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}