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The commitment between Spaniards and Germans will close the quarter -final round and define the second key of the semifinals.

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The Real Madrid of Xabi Alonso faces this Saturday at Borussia Dortmund in the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup with whites from less to more in a tournament where each game leaves more brushstrokes from where the coach walks with his football idea.

Opposite will be the German team led by the Croatian Niko Kovač, who first qualified for a weak group F and that surpassed by the minimum (2-1) to Monterrey, by Sergio Ramos.

However, Kovač has already promised to fight the meringues if they play “as in the first part against Monterrey”, aware of the “challenge” of playing against “one of the best teams in the world.”

What has been seen until the moment of the new Real Madrid, with an Xabi Alonso who took the reins shortly before the Club World Cup began, excites the Real Madrid players for the dynamism of the 5-3-2 model that applied in the Bayer Leverkusen, the arrival of new signings and the brilliant emergence of the Gonzalo Canterano.

He is also drawing attention, for good, the defensive plot of a team under construction but that is currently the only one in this competition that has never been losing in the matches previously played; And that in the 3-1 victory against Pachuca they played with ten from minute 7 for the expulsion of Asencio.

Before the Northern-Westphalia Renan Club, one of the great incentives will be to verify how the Xabi Medullary will make again and if it will finally give you much of the organization and reading of the game-as a replacement of Modric or Kross-A Arda Güler.

The Turkish pearl has left very interesting details in its conversion and shows that it has a large capacity for short and long association, but with work ahead in advance of anticipation, positioning and ball recoveries.

In defensive tasks that aims to be a fixed for the once Bayer Leverkusen coach is Aurélien Tchouameni, headline in the four games that Real Madrid has played in the Club World Cup, either as a defensive pivot or third central with Rüdiger and Huijsen behind.

Although the great unknown for this meeting, and Alonso does not have it easy in this regard, it is whether he will continue with the Canterano Gonzalo as a holder in the attack front.

The boy is the fashion player from Madrid in this tournament, thanks to his 3 goals and 1 assistance, and in the round of 16 he started with a mbappé still trying to recover the form after acute gastroenteritis.

With the Frenchman recovering the tone and sensations in the training, the decision to bet on the merengue star, to give continuity to the canterano, is in the hands of the coach, give the canterano while MBAPPÉ has just repressed or look for a mixed formula with both.

For its part, Borussia Dortmund shows up in these rooms after a discreet performance in the World Cup, where he suffered a lot against Fluminense, won with the right the South African Mamelodi Sundowns and to the South Korean Ulsan, and won Rayados in eighths despite a second upper part of the Mexicans.

However, the Germans arrived at the World Cup spurred by a good season end with Kovač in which they got a draw and six consecutive victories.

In Saturday's duel, the fan will finally run out of face to face among the Bellingham brothers, after Jobe, who signed for Borussia weeks ago from the Sunderland, saw his second yellow against Monterrey, which implies a suspension match in this tournament.

To take into account the name of the Franco-Guinean Serhou Guirassy, who invoiced Dortmund 34 goals and 6 assists in his first season, and that already has another 3 goals in the Club World Cup.

Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, who would face the winner of the PSG-Bayern Munich in the semifinals, will reissue the 2023-2024 Champions League final, when the meringues raised their last 'Orejona'.