{"id":417142,"date":"2025-12-01T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:06:14","slug":"madrid-is-a-team-in-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417142\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMadrid is a Team in Regression\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On RadioEstadio Noche (Onda Cero), Santiago Segurola delivered a blunt assessment of Real Madrid\u2019s ongoing slide after a third consecutive league draw. The five-point cushion at the top of La Liga is gone, and Segurola argues the issues are structural, not episodic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMadrid lacks intelligence on the pitch\u2026 they\u2019ve opted for a more physical, more athletic style of football, with signings in midfield of that type,\u201d Segurola said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For Segurola, the club\u2019s missteps in the summer window set the stage for today\u2019s problems. \u201cReal Madrid is a bewildered team, in regression; it was known that a midfielder was missing and no one was signed. They signed players in every position except that type of player they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The squad lacks balance and profiles that mesh well. Many feel the same as Segurola: the lack of clarity in the most important zone of the pitch \u2014 the midfield \u2014 is telling after years of Kroos and Modric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On RadioEstadio Noche (Onda Cero), Santiago Segurola delivered a blunt assessment of Real Madrid\u2019s ongoing slide after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[98664,30376,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-417142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-real-madrid-cf-la-liga","9":"tag-real-madrid-cf-news","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115644228098434187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417142","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=417142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}