Yeah Xabi Alonso He is going through a delicate moment as coach of Real Madrid, every time he sits in the press room to analyze before or after a match, he does not let his emotions take over. The Tolosarra technician shows up … confident, calm your fears and approach the situation naturally. The losses are heavy, the moment is complicated, but if a club and a squad can overcome the situation, it is them. That is why the Basque is confident that those who can play this Wednesday in Mendizorroza against Alavés will give the best of themselves.
“Despite the defeats, we have enough strength, we have enough team and eleven Real Madrid players will enter the field to give everything. I am sure that the desire, the attitude and the commitment will be enough to win the game. It’s an important game, we have three games before we finish. Tomorrow, The eleven who come out will do their best“, he declared during the previous press conference.
Alonso wanted to turn the page on the European defeat at the Bernabéu against Manchester City, but he also wanted to make it clear that the White team had “done a lot of things well”. “You shouldn’t think too much about the last game, it’s already happened, but there are positive things that we will need in the future, and the very near future is Vitoria.”
Asked about the possibility that a bad result could shorten his time on the Madrid bench, Xabi wanted to divert attention from his figure. “The most important thing is the team and it’s the club. We have a very important match at the moment, we want to change the dynamics of the results and we have a demanding opponent. “This is why we are playing tomorrow,” he concluded.
“Mbappé is good to play”
For the important event in Vitoria, Xabi Alonso gave some joy to Real Madrid fans, pointing out that after being rested against City in the Champions League Kylian Mbappé “is good to play”. “Tomorrow we will decide. This is obviously good news. Regarding City, there were no further losses. We recovered Kylian, but we have three suspended. We don’t have many players and we complete the call with players from Castilla, who every time they arrive give quality in training and are ready when needed. We go with those who are well and with those who help us,” he stressed.
In response to rumors about alleged bad relations with some of his players, the Tolosa player assured that there is a “good connection” in the dressing room. “We always fight for a common goal, which is to make things go as smoothly as possible. The other day we didn’t win, but there was no criticism of the players. We are together every day, we work on the good times and the bad times.. We know that now, due to the circumstances, we are going through difficulties, but we also believe that we can grow,” he added. “If we go through these difficult times, we will reverse the dynamic a little, Maybe in a few weeks we will look back and say “what a time we lived through, but it made us stronger”. These are the processes of every team and every locker room. In this locker room, there are people who have this background and this personality to be able to make decisions,” he maintained.
Faced with the journalists’ insistence on the team’s problems and the difficulty of their situation, Alonso emphasized that he has been in football for “many years and I am not surprised by anything that could happen. These are normal things, things that have happened and that will surely happen again in the future. We must face them with the responsibility of the position, with the responsibility of what we represent and from there work to reverse the situation. But it is not something which surprises me too much.
Constant communication with Florentino
“I have been training for several years, not much, but close to football. Two coaches were fired at this point, Paunovic and Calero. I’m sure you’re relying on the statistics and in the past there have been a lot more layoffs at this point. My impression is that football is demanding and there have been other times when there have been more dismissals at this stage,” he explained. And he said once again that he feels the confidence of Florentino Pérez. “Since I have been here we have had constant communication with the president, with José Ángel and with other important people at the club. We are all in this together, out of trust, out of respect, out of affection, out of responsibility towards the common goal.“Communication is always good.”
Finally, the coach of the Real Madrid first team did not avoid the question of the possible election of his friend Álvaro Arbeloa, coach of the reserve team, in the event of dismissal. “Álvaro, in the future, could be the coach of Real Madrid. He does things very well. “We talked about the players who are with us tomorrow, but we didn’t talk about anything you asked me.”
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