{"id":71536,"date":"2026-09-29T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/?p=71536"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:09:24","slug":"we-need-to-have-a-conversation-about-michael-kayode-the-22-year-old-brentford-defender-is-quickly-becoming-one-of-europes-most-exciting-right-backs-and-his-performance-for-italy-against-tur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/we-need-to-have-a-conversation-about-michael-kayode-the-22-year-old-brentford-defender-is-quickly-becoming-one-of-europes-most-exciting-right-backs-and-his-performance-for-italy-against-tur\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to have a conversation about Michael Kayode. The 22-year-old Brentford defender is quickly becoming one of Europe\u2019s most exciting right-backs, and his performance for Italy against Turkey tonight was more evidence of that."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 1 goal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 3\/3 shots on target<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 0.82 xG<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 37\/40 passes completed (93%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 1 chance created<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 0.88 xG + xA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 5 defensive contributions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u25aa\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/25aa.png\"> 8.1 rating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he\u2019s doing this on his senior Italy debut. What a night for Kayode, and what a night for Italy as they win 4-1 in Turkey. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf1f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/te0\/1\/16\/1f31f.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb9\/1\/16\/1f1ee_1f1f9.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 goal 3\/3 shots on target 0.82 xG 37\/40 passes completed (93%) 1 chance created 0.88 xG + xA 5 defensive contributions 8.1 rating And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71538,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536\/revisions\/71538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}