“What worries Madrid the most is the refereeing situation in Spain.” The basketball pavilion of the Valdebebas sports city yesterday hosted the classic Christmas meeting between Real Madrid officials and the media. Event that landed in the middle of the sporting news of the first football team, plunged into a crisis of results, timidly softened after the victory of Mendizorroza, which Xabi Alonso against the ropes.
Monday was lived in a certain tense calm and with a lot of doubts within the white team, while awaiting the results against the Talavera In King’s Cup and in front of him Seville during the last match of the year Santiago Bernabéuto decide what to do with the Basque coach. The last seven days have been eventful in Chamartín, with the defeat against Celta, the meeting at the stadium after the match, the warning from the management to the footballers about their attitude, the 1-2 against Manchester City and the balsamic triumph in Vitoria as a climax and followed by a strange situation in Valdebebas. No one dares to predict.
“Anything can happen”, is one of the answers that comes from the grass of the Madrid sports city, where no one knows very well what to expect in the coming days. Alonso seemed more on the outside than in after the duel against Celticbut the improvement in intensity against City gave him breathing room until Mendizorrosiswhere his team added three points which calmed the waters a little.
Florentino insists with Negreira
However, the feeling within the Madrid organization is that failure against another inferior rival (City were not considered as such) would end the Basque’s run on the bench. Some voices, however, believe that Madrid will finish taking off in January and that the solutions that are on the table to replace Alonso, who are currently Solari And Arbeloathey wouldn’t change the current outlook of the white team too much.
During a luncheon with the media, Florentino Pérez He avoided pronouncing his coach’s name during the speech he gave for five minutes to the press. The president of the Madrid team focused his efforts on the Negreira case and on the errors made, according to him, by the referees who directed Madrid’s last matches. “Against Alavés, we were refereed by a referee who threatened us before a Cup final. It seems that the trigger Rodrygo And Vinicius These are not sanctions. It is possible that a club was relegated as a victim of Negreira affairthe image of our football has been damaged and justice must be done. “The judge defined this as systemic corruption and they said these were convenient payments, why?” Pérez thinks.
Beyond the referees, nothing. Neither a message of support, nor a message of warning towards its players or its technical staff. Nothing. The president of Madrid and the rest of those responsible for the white team are now awaiting the events, with the next touchstones being the cup duel against Talavera and the League match against Sevilla. This is the near future of the club, the only one that currently exists. Next will come the Saudi Super Cup, a competition which caused a lot of damage last year. Carlo Ancelotti losing the final against Barça 2-5. Nobody wants to see that far ahead, because at the moment in Madrid, “every match is a world”, as we recognize behind closed doors. Nobody dares to say that he will be the technician there.
change of tone
So there is no deadline for Alonso. For now, they all are. The relationship with the dressing room, at least in public, improved after the club’s warnings to the players and the accolades from Rodrygo And Vinicius In the matches against City and Alavés they reflected this change in tone of the team, but the internal problems remain similar. The team does not finish playing well and depends on the individual quality of its attackers, the midfield pieces do not fit together, Alonso looks for new solutions every day and the physical fitness of the players is far from the best.
Calm tense, and with a lot of doubts, before the Cup and the League. This is the Christmas reality of this Madrid. One that can change at any time.
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