European teams are having multiple identities in a club World Cup in which they have much to lose. Atlético, for example, like Porto, confirmed their bad seasons with two eliminations that affect their pride and needs. For its part, a Real Madrid under construction has been able to recover from the initial scare that was debuting before the Hilal with less than a week of training. The meeting against Pachuca extended the filming and reinforced the morale of the team after a victory with ten for the expulsion of Asencio.
Xabi Alonso and its ability to change matches
Xabi Alonso knew the team with ten, with adjustments that worked, both in the pressure and in the circulation of the ball, the great evil of the white team this season, in which football has lacked on the four sides. The Basque knew how to change on Charlotte's lawn moments of the game and situations that were taking place. For example, a vinicius determined to make impossible dribbles against the rivals until he learned that the most useful thing was to play inside to cause imbalances.
Xabi Alonso and Luka Modric, during the Club World Cup. / EP
Each Real Madrid match at the Club World Cup is a revalidation for players, both for those who have their assured future and for those who have the door open. What for clubs such as PSG is an idyllic campaign, in the case of Xabi Alonso is the beginning of a campaign that will later have a couple of weeks of rest. That, in case of reaching the July 13 final that is played at the Metlife Stadium in New York (New Jersey). There is a lot to that game for the title.
First, Real Madrid must fasten the classification for the round of 16, which oriented with the 3-1 victory against Pachuca, which was reinforced after the tie between the hilal and its final rival in the group stage. An RB Salzburg that also got rid of the Mexican team, already eliminated, and that will try to refute the first place in a group where it was not even a favorite to take a place for eighth. The Austrian painting season has been bad, like the previous one.
A good precedent for Real Madrid
The team led by Thomas Letsch ended up in the last last place of the Champions League phase after losing, among other games, which played against Real Madrid at Bernabéu. He did it for a clear 5-1 in the only round game signed by Ancelotti in the highest European competition. The only player who highlighted that night was Danish Mads Bidstruptogether with the Israeli striker Oscar Gloukh, the great figures of a transition phase team, such as Red Bull's own model.
There is also a Real Madrid that has as its self -imposed obligation to get as far as possible in the Club World Cup, both for the 145 million it would receive for winning it, and for the prestige that the title would give. This has understood Florentino Pérez, who personally moved to the club's debut in Miami, where the white club has a large community of followers. In that definition process all folders are open. At the moment, Asencio has been erased from one after two bad performances. And the same has happened with Rodrygo.
Christian Zawieschitzky, RB Salzburg goalkeeper, intercepts a ball. / Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP
Mbappé is still out and Gonzalo winning prestige
The canterano had two titles that ended with a penalty and an expulsion. The Brazilian played the first game and then did not even warm up. It is Xabi Alonso's philosophy, who has made it very clear from the beginning. Unlike Carlo Ancelotti, who cares more to keep hierarchies. Regarding the first game, Ceballos was able to get out of ostracism with good minutes. Huijsen was crowned as the best creator of the team and Arda Güler consolidated himself as one of the great bets for this campaign.
But now the Club World Cup for Real Madrid begins. The phase that will help you define which team wants to be and, therefore, what version you want to avoid. He will have to do it, again, without Mbappé, who has reappeared after the serious gastroenteritis he suffered in the United States with a very soulless appearance and quite a few kilos less. There will be no problem in this regard, because the best Madrid World Cup, saving regular Courtois, will be available again.
A Gonzalo García who has lying down the door and has been discovered with the '9' that Real Madrid was going to fish outside. The canterano, the one who has what he wants to be. An identity development to advance in a tournament full of obstacles. The meeting against the Salzburg RB in Philadelphia will look with one eye in the outcome of the G Group, which will be the white rival except Hecatombe of defeat against Salzburg and Victoria de Al Hilal that would leave the whites outside. This scenario is not contemplated and the two that offer a reborn Juventus and the renewed City of Guardiola, a duel from which the future rival of Xabi Alonso will come out.
RB Salzburg Technical Card – Real Madrid
Probable alignment RB Salzburg: Christian Zawishiczky; Stefan Lainer, Joane Gadou, Jacob Rasmuses, French Creaty; Dorgeles Nene, Mads Bidstripe, Dibaté, Oscar Glokh; Edmund Baidoo, y Onisiwo.
Real Madrid probable alignment: Courtois; Alexander-Arnold, Rüdiger, Huijsen, Fran García; Tchouaméni, Güler, Valverde, Bellingham; Vinicius y Gonzalo García.
Arbitrator: Dahane Beida (Mauritania).
Estadio: Lincoln Financial Field (Filadelfia).
Time: 03:00 (CET)
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