{"id":1019527,"date":"2026-08-23T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019527\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:50:26","slug":"spanish-media-pass-judgment-on-denzel-dumfries-official-debut-for-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019527\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish media pass judgment on Denzel Dumfries&#8217; official debut for Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Denzel Dumfries can look back on a mixed debut for Real Madrid. The Dutch right-back drew both praise and criticism in the Spanish media after the LaLiga match against Espanyol (1-2 win).<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Carlo Ancelotti started Dumfries on Saturday evening ahead of Trent Alexander-Arnold, who came on after 79 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid made a strong start to the season. Jude Bellingham put them ahead after just nine minutes, heading in from an indirect free-kick.<\/p>\n<p>Half an hour in, though, Espanyol were level again. Alex Cala finished off a long move and blasted the ball high past Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the winner in the final minute. Carlos Espi collected the ball in the opposition penalty area, dribbled past the goalkeeper and found the net.<\/p>\n<p>Dumfries was on the pitch for almost 80 minutes and earned some praise, though the former PSV and sc Heerenveen player also came in for criticism.<\/p>\n<p>MARCA liked plenty of what it saw. &#8220;Very good in the way he defended on the front foot. He made good use of his strength,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;In the second half he produced a magnificent defensive action.&#8221; MARCA gives him a 6.<\/p>\n<p>El Desmarque took a dimmer view. &#8220;He gave Javi Hernandez too much space for the 1-1, but apart from that he was very involved with his trademark attacking play. A 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mundo Deportivo also blamed Dumfries for the goal Real conceded. &#8220;Was very involved going forward, but as a result was too late for Espanyol&#8217;s equaliser.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denzel Dumfries can look back on a mixed debut for Real Madrid. The Dutch right-back drew both praise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1019528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[76454,402158,23958,10214,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1019527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-espanyol","tag-espanyol-vs-real-madrid","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117146329247743731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}