Xabi Alonso lived his first tragedy as coach of Real Madrid. A tough varapalo that cuts the recovery I wanted to build for this Club World Cup. The white coach felt beaten after an overwhelming start of the PSG, which imposed his law. “It is a project done and with time, we are still starting. Not for being more brave would be better. We had to know how to play those moments. We saw each other 2-0. We are not in the field. We have suffered. This stage is starting, but there is a lot of room, although it hurts,” said the Basque.
“We are going from here as a better team”
“We wanted to make a worked game. More than the distance between the PSG is the margin of improvement we have. It is the end of the season, not the start of the next. From this meeting we will take things out for a future. We are going from here as a better team, although it is difficult to explain it. It will serve as a starting point for next season“added the Madrid coach.
Xabi Alonso wants to see the glass half full: “I am leaving with certainties. This match and championship has told me many things than we are and what we have to improve. I go with many certainties. Next year it will be different because of the changes that there will be. In August we will begin the 2025/2026, which will be a bit different.”
The bleeding that caused the PSG sneaked into Modric's farewell, “A bitter end, but he will never be remembered for today's game. It will be for other great meetings. It is a world football legend”. The margin of improvement will no longer be the responsibility of the Croatian: “I do not talk about defenses, midfielders or front. I only try to analyze the team. It is good to see the errors and that serve you for the future. If we repeat the same errors again and again we will not be intelligent.”
“We have not talked about signings or future”
Xabi Alonso was restless, although prudent. “I believed that the moment of the changes was to wait. In the second part we have stretched some good. We have changed the 4-3-3 since the 4-4-2 with Gonzalo lying left, because we were not getting fit. There has been a change, although it has not been perceived. The analysis of all the decisions will be looked at with a different prism and I will also do it. I am self -critical about what I have decided. We are all together. I hope this end does not mark us for the start of the next. It will be a reset from scratch. Not since the 98 that we have finished today, “Tolosarra tried, trying to differentiate the two campaigns.
“Rodrygo was a party decision. There has been no decisions for the future, just playing a World Cup. We have not rotated too much,” he said about the absence of the Brazilian, with which he will have a different conversation. “It was not what we expected. It is the first defeat. The bad news for me is that it will not be the last defeat, but the one who thinks that he will never lose is ever cheating. Now we start another rest season and refresh the heads. We will all need them. We want it to have enough impact, let's not forget it, but not let us drag, “concluded the Basque coach.