Real Madrid will have to show another face. After a start to the season marked by several disappointing performances, notably against Atlético de Madrid, José Mourinho intends to take advantage of the international break to correct certain shortcomings in his team. But there is no question of revolutionizing everything overnight. Asked about the changes he intends to make to his eleven, on the eve of the reception of Villarreal, the Portuguese technician called for patience. “We stayed here and, when you have little time to actually work in the field, you have much more time to analyze every detail. During this first period, we identified a lot of good things, but also aspects to improve. This does not mean that everything needs to be radically changed. This takes work and time. I can’t arrive with one or two days of training and say: “We’re going to start playing with five at the back, four in the middle, change the full-backs.” This is not possible”he explained.
And Mourinho also wanted to point out that the demands of Real Madrid necessarily make each transition period more complicated to manage. “Yesterday I read something curious that could not happen to Real Madrid. Mikel Arteta extended his contract and said they are only at the beginning and there is still a lot of work left. Real Madrid are coming out of a somewhat complicated period. Here, what would be considered a normal situation elsewhere takes on another dimension. And it’s also Real Madrid’s fault, because this club has won so much in the last ten years, and even before, that everything takes on different proportions. We need time to improve certain things. There are details that we can correct quickly, by going “tick, tick”, and that’s what we do. Yesterday we worked on these aspects. We have things to improve. I’m not just going to say that we should have won against Atlético because we should have played eleven against nine. We must look for improvements in what we can control. Perhaps many people, without a trained eye, will not be able to see them. But we will try to make adjustments to progress on certain aspects.continued the Special One.
