Actual Madrid head into El Clasico prime of the desk towards Barcelona, with a two-point benefit over their rivals. Los Blancos have been constant and defensively efficient, however much less convincing going ahead, and nonetheless have the damaging derby defeat to Atletico Madrid to place behind them.
It’s a radically totally different facet to the one which Carlo Ancelotti left final season although. With out the ball, Actual Madrid are defending a lot larger up the pitch and urgent extra agressively. But with the ball, Actual Madrid have struggled to interrupt down defences at time, usually counting on moments of brilliance from Kylian Mbappe.
Change of method underneath Xabi Alonso
Talking on Cadena SER, Anton Meana has defined that Alonso is a really methodical supervisor, who speaks to his gamers quite a bit, albeit with out overdoing it. The Basque supervisor is direct and comfy taking troublesome choices, and has communicated to gamers that they are going to be on the bench effectively upfront of the ultimate tactical briefing.
Actual Madrid gamers battling video evaluation
Nonetheless there’s one side of his methodology that Alonso’s gamers are battling. The squad has complained of an excessive amount of video evaluation, with the teaching employees displaying the gamers movies each day throughout their preparation, and so they are usually very lengthy, one thing that has gone down much less effectively within the dressing room.
Check to return in El Clasico
The one fundamental excellent situation that Alonso should handle is Actual Madrid’s performances in large video games. Though they managed a victory over Juventus, the Bianconeri created a number of clear openings, and the 2 defeats Alonso has suffered got here in dramatic style towards Paris Saint-Germain and Atletico Madrid. In each video games, Actual Madrid’s press was surpassed with ease, and their very own play by way of midfield struggled.