The next Real Madrid match will be followed very closely by football fans. After starting in dilettante, the training of Xabi Alonso unrolled his football in the third group match of the Club World Cup. Facing Salzburg, Casa Blanca unrolled (3-0) and the tactic set up by the new Madrid coach finally begins to bear fruit. For the first time since taking office, Xabi Alonso managed to animate as he wanted his team both in the defensive and offensive sector.
Faced with Juventus, it will be necessary to recur, but this time with an extra element, and not the least: Kylian Mbappé. The Frenchman missed the whole competition due to an acute gastro entrepreneur. Very weakened and hospitalized in Miami, he had missed almost all training of the Madrid club so far. But, he will finally return to Juventus. According to information from Marca, he normally participated in the latest training sessions of Real Madrid and he still has three sessions before the shock against the Italian club.
Mbappé must quickly adapt
Before the match against Salzburg, Mbappé, just back, had exchanged with Xabi Alonso and the medical staff and it had been agreed to leave him to rest so as not to precipitate his return. This time, it's the right one and he's going to return to the group against Juve. But will he be directly holder or first on the replacement bench? This is the question that Xabi Alonso is currently asking. In his absence, the Spanish coach bet on the young Gonzalo Garcia who perfectly grasped his luck with 2 goals and 1 assist in 3 games.
Above all, the Spaniard has a profile that fits perfectly with Xabi Alonso's tactical requirements with an ability to press and repeat the efforts. The Madrid daily Marca explains that Real Madrid hopes that Kylian Mbappé will agree to make the efforts in the pressing. Because Xabi Alonso wishes to associate French with Vinicius Jr but with great flexibility in traveling in the axis and therefore defensive races. The Brazilian seems to have understood what his coach asked. It remains to be seen whether this will be the case with Mbappé. But Xabi Alonso hopes that his star will make it easier for him because if the team tactically unrolls with Gonzalo Garcia, she will start 0 with Mbappé and will therefore have to restore automatisms. Xabi Alonso is already hollowing out.
