Real Madrid began the Club World Cup and the Xabi Alonso era the next installment was seen in a situation that threatened to lose foot. Asencio saw the red and a disturbing scenario of almost 90 minutes was opened with one less footballer. But Madrid came out of a situation that threatened to be desperate with an extraordinary domain of the ball and the tempo, perhaps what most missed in the first installment. From the touch of Güler, Bellingham, Ceballos and Modric, deactivated the Pachuca, who says goodbye to the tournament after missing the Real in a match with one more. His hierarchy with the pass was overwhelming. Madrid showed that some things work fluently, although perhaps not those that Xabi wanted.
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Thibaut Courtois, Fran García, Raúl Asencio, Dean Huijsen, Trent Alexander-Arnold (Antonio Rüdiger, min. 77), Jude Bellingham (Dani Ceballos, min. 59), Arda Güler (Luka Modric, min. 59), Aurélien Tchouaméni, Vinícius Júoro (Víctor Muñoz, min. 86), Gonzalo García (Brahim Díaz, min. 45) Y Federico Valverde
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Carlos Moreno, Luis Rodríguez (Javier López, min. 59), Eduardo Bauermann, Bryan González, Federico Pereira, Kenedy (Carlos Sánchez, min. 59), Agustín Palavecino (Víctor Guzmán, min. 71), Alán Bautista (John Kennedy, min. 45), Alexéi Domínguez (Gustavo Cabral, min. Montiel and Solomon Rondón
Goals
1-0 min. 34: Jude Bellingham. 2-0 min. 42: Arda carrots. 3-0 min. 69: Federico Valverde. 3-1 min. 79: Elías Montiel
Referee Ramon Abatti Abel
Yellow cards
Agustín Palavecino (Min. 17)
Red cards
Raúl Asencio (Min. 6)
The distance from the board to the field is a bit that abyss that opens between the sharpness of the plans and blurs of life. In his career against time, Xabi imagines movements, connections, spaces, corridors, but then life comes and leads the game he needed to put everything to the test. A ball behind the back, a badly measured race for, a grip, and Madrid suddenly saw one less, with an entire world ahead under the heat of Charlotte, less wet than Miami’s. The Canary Central, who against Al Hilal committed a penalty that his coach described as “avoidable”, saw a red to which the same label can be hung.
The Real tried to adjust to the territory, measured the distances between its troops, the spaces in which the rival moved and chose the place where the defensive line lifted. It is still a logical introspective team. He looks at himself before the game. It is a group that has been able to rehearse the end -of -year dance and executes the choreography a little at the wrong time. Once late.
While Madrid players wake up with each other, Pachuca, life, does not wait for anyone. The Mexican team, with Jaime Lozano also being released on the bench, threw himself for the doubts of Madrid. Xabi pushed his defensive line to the center of the field and Pachuca signed up insistently. And Asencio doubted, and the Canary ended up throwing Rondón one of the times the Venezuelan escaped. There the board that wanted to test the Real coach, the Real’s coach.
They had played only six minutes and Tchouameni had to return to the defense and delayed the Valverde pivot, which had begun as the right end instead of Rodrygo, on the bench, the first amendment of Xabi regarding the first game. For the Brazilian, Arda entered the eleven, with the mission of ordering the game.
With one less, the Turkish and Bellingham were responsible for kneading the ball, putting it away from Pachuca’s reach so that he could not punish his back. Palavecino’s passes and Kenedy and Rondón movements supposed a shock always on the prowl. But the center of the countryside, which cost him to doma the duel with Al Hilal, ruled a very risky situation. Valverde, who does many things when it is most needed, managed to hide the inferiority with a formidable display to sweep the entire medium.
Ahead, Gonzalo demonstrated the understanding of the game of who already accumulates many battles in the elite. It always appeared in the place and at the moment necessary to give a way out in the tight landscape that lets play with one less. He offered support to open Fran García to the band in the play of the goal of. And Güler’s ball left for the second with a light pass in the area. Touch to touch, Madrid deactivated the courageous Pachuca, without being left alone in that numb the game. He accelerated again, Brahim put the ball in the area and Valverde took off some of the weight of the failed penalty against Al Hilal marking with the toe.
The Mexicans finding their moments, but came up that Courtois fingers reached more than ever. They only surpassed him when a shot of Montiel touched on Tchouameni’s leg and confused him. It was late. Madrid had the game trapped and found even the occasion for Rüdiger to return after his knee. The Real straightened with the pass when he saw the strings.
