Sacred return to earth. When the kick-off of this Madrid derby was given yesterday afternoon around 4:15 pm in the Metropolitano, it can be said without hesitation that no one expected the meeting to end on a 5-2 score in favor of the Colchoneros. On a slightly average dynamic, the Cholo Simeone team finally rolled up on that of Xabi Alonso, who had won all his matches played so far (5 in Liga and 1 in the Champions League). A football lesson and above all, a huge humiliation.
Inevitably, the Madrid press is looking for the culprits. Many of them harvests strong criticism, like Dean Huijsen or Alvaro Carreras, however good on this start of the season but on the street yesterday. But if there is a man who takes more expensive than everyone, it is Xabi Alonso. The Madrid coach is indeed, for the first time since his takeover, strongly questioned. Some choices, such as depriving yourself of Franco Mastanuono, very good in recent weeks, and aligning a Bellingham Jude clearly not 100% have been well received. Just like the release of Arda GĂŒler early in the match when he was rather efficient went badly among Madrid supporters and observers.
The press is very hard
The Basque tactician did not find the slightest solution to hurt AtlĂ©tico, and none of his tactical adjustments during the meeting will have worked. In the Madrid press, he already takes very expensive. Marcawho compares him to Ancelotti, explains for example in an article that Alonso was not faithful to his principles of meritocracy and that he did what too many Real coaches have made recently, namely playing players who have a big status. âThe change of Arda GĂŒler defines what Xabi Alonso did to the Metropolitano. He was Real Madrid coach. And we expect Xabi Alonso to be something else precisely. From the eleven holder, Bellingham not being able to hold with the little that had been seen, until Gonzalo's game in the 90th minute, his decisions give the impression of having been taken by an AI to which we put as an indication: “Act as a Real Madrid coach”. If there were (and there is) so much enthusiasm with Xabi, it is because it is expected from him that he is something else, that he runs those who do not usually run, that he gives opportunities to those who do not usually have them and that he sends on the bench those who deserve it on the ground, no matter how they are called “can we read.
On the side of ASwe also have very strong words. âXabi tactically shipping in the derby. Cholo has tactically ridiculed it »can be read there. âReal Madrid failed miserably during the first major test of the season. Certain decisions by Xabi Alonso have not been understood, such as the presence in the starting eleven of Bellingham or the early change of GĂŒler. The team lost the qualities that characterized it in the first games âexplains the media in another article. âIt is not a defeat, it is a humiliation. The Madrid derby reports Xabi Alonso as the main victim âgo there Cadena Ser. Suffice to say that the former midfielder will not have the right to make mistakes in the middle of the week against Kairat Almaty in the Champions League, and especially next weekend in Liga against VillarrealâŠ
