Xabi Alonso says he hasn't had enough time to develop his idea. He is right, but in Real Madrid the chronology is very different from that of any other team. Little is worth the work and innovations if in the 7th minute of the game a player like Asencio decides to self -expire. Despite playing the whole match in inferiority, the white team took a game forward where it imposed its greatest pace with goals from Bellingham, Güler Yalverde.
The Basque coach was an interventionist to avoid bleeding behind the backs with which he started the game and had Gonzalo as the best ally of his idea. With a high load of minutes for the brilliant season that has made in First RFEF the view of its value in this scheme, He decided to withdraw in the second half for players with first template value to justify their salary.
Another avoidable expulsion from Asencio
The canterano was marked again with a red that, together with the failure of the other day, will persecute him during his near future. He grabbed Rondón behind, who threw veteran to cause Pachuca's superiority. Courtois made it clear: “Two games and two errors.” These situations are not predicted by tablets or analysis that a Xabi Alonso has implanted that showed its despair after the expulsion of its plant.
With 10, Tchouaméni passed to the axis of the rear to form a couple with a huijsen as important at the ball out as weak in an advanced defensive line that would only work with pressure. Courtois made each day's salvation to prevent the Mexican team from getting ahead. The question of rhythm, much superior in Real Madrid even with one less player, was fundamental. The difference was noticed from half an hour of play.
Xabi Alonso took advantage of the hydration pause to make the necessary adjustments that changed the direction of the party. He put Vinicius on Punta, with a double pivot of Bellingham and Valverde. But the key piece of the entire gear was Gonzalo. A player who understands the game better than most of his most experienced teammates. Real Madrid's first goal was born from his precise first touch to Fran García, who ran to the front to give her to Bellingham. The English released a perfect left -footed shot and took advantage of the celebration to claim.
Gonzalo closes the thunder box
Although a player who is yielding below the expected and demonstrated level is not for too many exhibitions. Same case as Vinicius. Luckily for Real Madrid, before teams like Pachuca, it is enough for them to raise a reverse to generate sufficient danger with which the rival mitigates. Force needs intelligence to get to fruition. And the smartest of the initial class of Xabi Alonso is Gonzalo, a substitute for circumstances of a viral Mbappé.
The canterano is the one that gives an example to the rest and not vice versa. He has already demonstrated this season in Castilla, where he has crowned as top scorer and seasoned assistant for plays like the one that originated the second goal of Real Madrid. Gonzalo's fine touch so that Güler defined with the right hand to the long stick was the demonstration that Xabi Alonso will trust this tournament with those who most seriously take it. All this happened with Rodrygo on the bench and Endrick recovering in Madrid.
The best Courtois and return of Rüdiger
Gonzalo already held with his goal the poor premiere of his teammates in the Club World Cup and was again the magical key that closed the thunder box that had opened with the expulsion from Asencio. He celebrated the goals in style the 'Americanized' hobby that went and went from the food areas while the game passed. By pure logic, Pachuca began raising the accountant of occasions to avoid elimination.
Real Madrid has come with the best of Courtois to the tournament and Huijsen is growing in one of the essential associations that Xabi Alonso will need, who has a second full -fledged coach. A Sebas Parrilla that did not stop correcting positions. Modric came out to close the game and, above all, to justify the entry of the followersin addition to Ceballos, to leave the land of the pending conversations.
Like the one he will have to have with a non -existent wine and a Rodrygo without minutes. Valverde rounded the win in inferiority that supposes the added value for the goal difference. A meeting in which Xabi Alonso will put the notes that will begin to order the hierarchy of a template that was in need of an emotional impulse like the one that a game that began as a storm. Rüdiger's return in the last minutes was celebrated. He did it in a line of three like Xabi Alonso used in the Leverkusen. Montiel's goal in the 80s simply served to encourage the 'Show Business' of the Club World Cup.