Is Xabi Alonso, A soccer coach, not the pop wizard. It was a game to aim details, not to draw conclusions. Impossible in four training to make Madrid a machine, however good the new coach is. So Real Madrid: Calm and patience. And winning the Club World Cup … is Madrid, yes, but right now there are much better teams.
Madrid ties a gonzalo goal to a meritorious
The first meeting of the era Xabi Alonso Leave as a headline that if a footballer is missing, another one who occupies his position plays. Be called what is called. Mbappé was missing and Gonzal playedOr, something unthinkable with Ancelotti. The boy also scored, demonstrating that he is a striker with a lot of goal … and many more things. You give him a washing machine and finish it.
More Xabi things: don't get married to anyone. Or so seems. Gonzalo played 90 minutes, Vinicius and Bellingham no. They were horrible and ended up changing them, for Víctor Muñoz (another canterano!) And Luka Modric, who will not continue next season, but the one that had to be thrown when Madrid escaped the victory.
Xabi Another of the great dramas of the past inherited: the penalties. Madrid had the victory in 90 'but Fede failed from eleven meters. Bono stopped, who has not lost that specialty he showed in Seville in Arabia.
A team from the beginning
For Xabi it is not only important to be a team, but also look like it. So it ended to see the players of Madrid scattered by the grass just before starting the game. Now a pineapple is made and the captains speak. A detail that just as it does not contribute much to the game, but that Madrid was always thrown every time it fit a goal in the first minutes.
Trent has a mission
In its premiere with the Real Madrid shirt, Trent Alexander-Arnold had a lot of tactical work to assimilate. The side did not play stuck to the band, but went to the middle to leave Rodrygo as an extreme. He does not want traffic jams in the Xabi Alonso band, who wants to see the English player as an offensive phase organizer.
Trent wore his good ball displacement and his good foot, although he did not play his best game. It still has a lot of adaptation work ahead. They ended up changing.
Al Hilal is a good team
Those who follow the Pro Saudi League would not be surprised with the level of al Hilal. He is a good team, with good players who went there to earn money, but not in the decline of his career. Did they see Lodi? The same would be the holder in Atlético. And they are bond, cancel, Koulibaly, Savic, Malcom, Neves …
Gonzalo has a lot of things, but above all: goal
It was the surprise in the eleven and the author of the first goal of the Xabi Alonso era. And it was not a preseason match although with the opponent and the appearance of the realization, but the first match of the Club World Cup. Gonzalo is a very interesting killer and a footballer for Real Madrid this season. Offers this summer will not be missing, but it would not be surprising if Xabi decided to stay. He was about to sign a double with a spectacular header, but Bono made a paradon.
Better with Güler
Madrid changed his face as soon as Arda entered the pitch. The Turk has more football than any of the midfielders who started the game and Xabi knows it, because he gave him the gallons in the second part. Güler, whose physique continues to grow, threw the team behind his back and generated the clearest chances of Madrid in the second half. He was about to score a goal as soon as he entered the field and his centers always created danger. He won ownership for Sunday against Pachuca.
Ni Vinicius, Ni Bellingham
It was not a good day for Vinicius and Bellingham, who gave continuity to football they showed in May. Little thing. Completely disappeared English, inaccurate and foul the Brazilian, who has lost the imbalance in one to one. Xabi Alonso's pulse did not tremble, who changed both of them. First Vini for Víctor Muñoz and then Jude for Luka Modric.
Ceballos?
It turned out that he did not play a minute, unless Xabi is clear that he does not have him. That players like Lucas or Modric, who are not going to continue next season, go to the field ahead of him … His club World Cup can say a lot in the face of their future.
