For several weeks, a debacle was brewing at Real Madrid, which ended this Sunday, with a defeat against Celta which left Xabi Alonso in a delicate position, because his position is more uncertain than ever. However, The Tolosarra coach still has defenders, like Jorge Valdanowhich directly targeted footballers.
“I have to say that I consider Xabi to be a worthy coach. Those who don’t run are the players, not the coach“, expressed the former player, coach and director of the Madrid entity in the early hours of this Monday, during the Movistar post-match. “We have to activate the aggressiveness of the team, and that depends on the players,” he continued.
In this sense, the Argentine emphasized that it is the task of the coach to “guarantee order, maintain the motivation of the players”, and compared the performance of the white team with the defeat of Athletic in San Mamés a few days before: “I was surprised that after a match as complete as the one played in Bilbao, the team lacked aggression and took so long to wake up“.
“Only when he saw that the situation was hopeless“We lose 0-2, they send off a player, it becomes complicated”… So they activate another level of dedication in the game, and that also gives results”, he concluded, clarifying who is responsible for the bad sporting moment that Real Madrid is going through.
Valdano, moreover, went further this Monday by The third time. “There are some (problems) that are chronic, e.g. the difficulty the team has in pressing. And this is directly linked to the state of mind, to the stimuli. Yesterday, the team ended up with 10, and From that moment on, he found an aggressiveness that he had not had before. for an hour,” he began to explain.
“Why is the pressure so important? Because when a team is attentive to its obligations, it also connects on a footballing level. It does not get distracted, it does not fall into moments of apathy”, continues the Movistar collaborator. In this sense, he emphasizes that, to create good pressure, “you have to start at the top, where it costs the most work because Real Madrid’s two big attackers are very unbalanced, but it is difficult for them to fight the first battle“, he said, in reference to Mbappé and Vinícius.
The Whites will have another chance – perhaps the last for Xabi Alonso – to show that they can live up to this Wednesdayduring Manchester City’s visit to the Santiago Bernabéu to play the sixth day of the championship phase of the Champions League.
“We want to give a good level, have a good match, show that we can play much better than today“, expressed Tolosarra after his defeat against Celta, closing ranks with a message of confidence: “All united, knowing that this is football, that there is a lot of season leftthat we can turn the situation around. “We can have a bad match, but we have to look forward.”
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