{"id":22827,"date":"2026-07-30T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:35:03","slug":"xabi-alonso-press-conference-live-chelsea-boss-on-joao-pedro-hat-trick-dastan-satpayev-10-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22827","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso press conference live: Chelsea boss on Joao Pedro hat-trick, Dastan Satpayev, 10 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hello and welcome to <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">football.london <\/strong>for live updates from Xabi Alonso&#8217;s post-match press conference after Chelsea&#8217;s extraordinary 6-4 victory over Western Sydney Wanderers in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Alonso&#8217;s team got the ball rolling early on when new signing Dastan Satpayev smashed the ball into the top corner after being played in by a wonderful Ryan Kavuma-McQueen pass. The Australian side were not behind for too long when Anthony Pantazopoulos headed in from a corner to level the score in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wanderers then took the lead through a fine Aydan Hammond finish into the bottom corner after some individual skill. Dario Essugo levelled the friendly before the half-time whistle after some intricate link-up play with Reggie Walsh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The second half proved to be even more of a thriller. Dylan Scicluna scored, Jamie Gittens levelled, Awan Lual netted, Joao Pedro levelled. And then Joao Pedro went and won the game for Chelsea with a nine-minute hat-trick late on for the west Londoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">What did Alonso make of all of that? <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Bobby Vincent <\/strong>is live in Australia to bring you word-for-word updates from Alonso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to football.london for live updates from Xabi Alonso&#8217;s post-match press conference after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}