It was only the premiere, with a stifling heat in Miami and without Kylian Mbappé, but the debut of Xabi Alonso at the head of the Real … Madrid did not respond to the enormously generated expectations. It was more than the white team, demolished in the first act and more dominant after the resumption, but could not stand a rotating battle, with good individuals, but on paper different steps below. The result does not make concessions on the possibilities of Real Madrid in this Club World Cup, because it is a lot of superior Pachucha and Salzburg, but as soon as it shows conclusions about the keys played by Carlo Ancelotti.
At the moment it is possible to collect that Madrid has a new boss, but maintains the old vices. Enormously the task for Xabi Alonso, as the Guipuzcoan recognized after his first official exam. «I feel a mix of everything. The first part didn’t like it, it will help us to see what we should improve. In the second we were better, with more balance, better ball handling. We sink more, but the goal was missing. I will stay with that and we will throw away, “he analyzed in Dazn. Bayer Leverkusen Expressionman believes that his players missed patience in some sections. “I didn’t want us to accelerate too quickly, we had more break with the ball.”
At the moment every analysis is premature. But Xabi knows the house well and knows that in Real Madrid -hits are requested from the first minute. “They have only been three training sessions and the requirement of the result is there, but what we want to be takes time,” he explained. However, he already saw some details in the second part that he has influenced by his players. “The good treatment of the ball, attacking the corridors, playing higher and penetrating after loss,” he said before he explained, without excuses that the heat made it difficult for Vinicius to have cramps or that Raúl Asencio was with antibiotics.
The entire season it happened during the season, Madrid missed depth and clarity in the last meters, hierarchy in the middle of the field and lack of strength in the defense, both in the ashes and on the sides. Courtois was hardly demanded, but also failed the work in defensive tools and replication, especially in the first law. Another old problem, although Xabi Alonso has little to do there, was the lack of success in the criminal releases, with that maximum fine incorrect by Fede Valverde who could suppose the victory.
A lap with Vinicius
Several players were indicated. One of the most requested was, again, Vinicius. The Brazilian is still gray, well below what is expected of him. He hardly flowed over and generated imbalance. They have been low performance for several months that disrupt the coaching staff, fans and criticism, which expected a more decisive version of an attacker with the Golden Ball level. Rodrygo did not seem, with whom Xabi works in the mental aspect from the start, but at least gonzalo in the goal of the goal.
Raúl Asencio was one of the negative protagonists. He played in a naive fine, proves the lack of maturity and was again poorly measured in some situations. The Canterano emerged like a shot when Ancelotti had to give ownership due to a lack of healthy defenses, but he looks nervous. Only he knows if he influences him to remain accused of an alleged crime of child pornography.
De Debutant Huijsen, Lights and Shadows. Well, although he made a mistake for a frivolity that could cost a goal well, but softly in the duels and regulate in supervision. Right, Trent, the way they want them to be called, has hardly intervened. The location was one of the contributions of Xabi. He worked as an right side, but in attack he always came in to leave Rodrygo’s free band. It must be much more influential, especially in the attack, because it never stood in defense. For the left flank, Fran García again sows doubts about whether he has Real Madrid level. He will not start when Benfiquista arrives Álvaro Carreras, but the doubt is whether he will continue in the club because Mendy is improving in his recovery. He was surpassed in the defense and without contributing to the attack.
I am also restless about Jude Bellingham, who ended the competition with worrying symptoms, both physically and tactically. It is still far from that exuberant football player, ‘Box to Box’, who was surprised in his first exercise in white. Little lucid and absent before the Saudis, although in one of the contributions of Xabi Alonso delayed his position to try to take more part in the creation of the game. The doubt is to know whether the cause of his decline that is battered shoulder that he does not decide to work.
There are two details that show the change. The first one, that Xabi looks more at the quarry than its predecessor. This is demonstrated by the ownership of Gonzalo García, the ‘murderer’ of Castilla, in the absence of Mbappé and Endrik, and access to the last part of Victor Muñoz. The second, which, as the net has landed, has no mortgages in the costumes and does not marry anyone. His wrist did not shook for the removal of the field in the second half to Alexander-Arnold, Rodrygo, Vinicius and Bellingham.
