{"id":589,"date":"2025-06-19T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:14:21","slug":"joao-cancelo-addresses-fair-draw-against-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/joao-cancelo-addresses-fair-draw-against-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Cancelo addresses &#8216;fair&#8217; draw against Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-30.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-30-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-30-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joao Cancelo addressed Al Hilal&#8217;s draw against Real Madrid. The Italian coach highlighted his team&#8217;s character, while the Portuguese described the draw as \u201cfair\u201d in the Saudis&#8217; debut in the Club World Cup.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/real-madrid\/al-hilal\/2025228097\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal&#8217;s Joao Cancelo said on Wednesday that the draw between Real Madrid and his team in their debut in the Club World Cup was &#8220;fair&#8221; after a first half in which he maintained that they were &#8220;far better&#8221; to the Merengue club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it was a fair result for what happened in the match,&#8221; Cancelo told the media in the mixed zone after the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Cancelo, the Saudi side were far superior in the first half, in which they enjoyed the better chances, while the second half &#8220;was more balanced.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to play against Vinicius, Rodrygo, Bellingham\u2026, we played against the best players in the world in one of the best teams in the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Cancelo addressed Al Hilal&#8217;s draw against Real Madrid. The Italian coach highlighted his team&#8217;s character, while the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}