Al -Malab newspaper – Xabi Alonso, the possible coach of Real Madrid, plans to coup against the tactical legacy that he will get from the Italian veteran Carlo Ancelotti, who will leave the Merinji training at the end of the current season to lead the Brazil national team.
According to the Spanish newspaper “AS”, the biggest challenge for Alonso is now not to reach the Real Madrid training seat, but to continue and succeed, especially since the team appeared this season away from competition in major championships, amid unstable technical performance in most of the season.
It will be exciting to monitor the expected tactical change under Alonso’s leadership, especially since Real Madrid is not a club clinging to strict tactical systems like Barcelona, which gives the new coach a space to apply his ideas freely.
Since his arrival in Bayer Leverkusen, Xabi Alonso has shown a clear tendency to rely on a defensive trio, the method he applied since his first match against Schalke (4-0), and he continued for him for almost three seasons, with a diversification between the two plans 3-4-3 and 3-5-2, and with this approach, he led the team to crown the league and the cup in Germany, and lost only one match throughout the last season in the final of the European League in front of Atalanta.
Alonso’s repetition of this tactical drawing in Real Madrid depends on the quality of the players available to it, especially since the team started the current season with problems in defense, with Rodgeger and Melitao only as defense pivotal. However, the expected deals may change the equation, and may not be able to apply his ideas immediately in the Club World Cup for time, but the next season will be an ideal theater for their experience.
Real Madrid ended the defender Dean Hoison, and is close to announcing the contract with Trent Alexander-Arnold as a right back, and Alvaro Carreras as a left back, as part of the rebuilding of the defense, and the next season may witness Alonso’s reliance on a system with three defenders.
The defensive squad is expected to include Danny Carvajal, Alexander Arnold, Edir Milito, Antonio Rudiger, David Alaba, Raul Asensio, Dean Huwaison, Fairland Mende, Alvaro Carreras, with the possibility of Fran Garcia, in addition to some young talents such as Jacobo Ramon.
Hoison is one of the elements that are able to contribute to the application of the Alonso plan, thanks to his high ability to build play from behind.
Carvajal and Mindy may play pivotal roles in this system, especially since they have played previous experiences such as defense couple under the leadership of Ancelotti and Zidane, respectively.
Despite Carvajal’s serious injury, he has the flexibility to adapt to this role, while Arnold is characterized by the possibility of playing as an offensive suite or midfielder, which is also doing with the England national team.
Triple attack … or binary?
AS stated that in the offensive line the question will remain open: Will Alonso rely on an offensive or bilateral trio?, Because the Basque coach attaches great importance to the midfield, and wants to support him with a new player to compensate for the problems of the ball’s exit this season, and Martin Zobimindy, Real Sociedad star, is the preferred option, with prominent names such as Aurelin Chaamini, Vedi Valverde and the presence of Pelingham.
Alonso may go in the attack to play with a duo consisting of Vinicius Junior and Killian Mbappe, especially if Rodrigo Joyce, whose future does not seem clear inside the club.
The newspaper pointed out that this option may give the team a greater balance, after it showed dependence on an offensive trio with Beingham as a fake striker a kind of chaos in some matches.
If Rodrigo leaves, Alonso will have alternative options such as Ibrahim Diaz, Arda Goller, and Andreik, as well as the possibility of contracting a Josello -like striker to play specific roles when needed.
