TVictories against Alaves in LaLiga and Talavera in the Copa del Rey helped buy time, but they are not guaranteed. The manager’s credibility is still at rock bottom, and the club’s doubts persist. This is not because of concrete results, but because of a more worrying reality. They feel that soccer is not improving and the sports project is going nowhere.
There will be a new test against Sevilla on Saturday, after which a new period of reflection will begin at the office. Without a strong immediate reaction, Xabi Alonso’s future does not look good. If he passes the Sevilla test, the Spanish Super Cup will be like an acid test. Against Atlético and Barça, it seems that only a win can give them a decisive boost until the end of the season.
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It is true that interest from players is increasing. Their attitude too. But Xavi’s plan doesn’t go well. The team has lost its identity, cannot communicate its beliefs, and is on the brink of disaster every game. If it hadn’t been for some great stoppage-time saves from Lunin and Talavera, there would probably have been talk of his sacking by now.
Xavi is trying to get things back on track, but the feeling at the club is that he has lost all the power he had when he arrived in May. It looks like Madrid have a new manager now. What was expected was not Xavi, but a manager who had lost all sense of his sporting identity and had found balance in not disrupting the dressing room.
dire situation
The situation of the coach cannot be separated from the moments that Real Madrid experience in competitions, especially in La Liga. The team has experienced weeks of doubt, with a poor result that left them four points off the top of the table and a constant sense of vulnerability instilled in the environment. This crisis is about play and confidence, and it’s wearing down all the numbers in the project with the coach at the forefront.
The situation is more than delicate for Xabi Alonso, who is not only fighting against results, but also against a constant climate of urgency within the club, which does not understand transitional periods and always demands immediate results.
