World football fans are awaiting fiery confrontation between the Saudi Crescent and Real Madrid, scheduled for ten in the evening, Wednesday, at the “Hard Rock” stadium in Miami, in the first round of the eighth group in the World Cup Clubs Championship currently held in the United States.
Reverend confrontation with a global flavor
The match brings back to the final of the 2023 version that brought the two teams in Morocco, and ended with Real Madrid winning 5-3, adding a revenge character to this expected confrontation. This is the fourth participation of Al -Hilal in the World Cup clubs, where it plays in a group that includes Real Madrid, the Mexican Pachuca, and the Austrian Selburg.
A new start with a different technical leadership
Both teams enter the championship under new technical management; Real Madrid is leading Spanish coach Xabi Alonso, who took over after the departure of Carlo Ancelotti to train Brazil. While Al -Hilal is leading the Italian coach, Simoni Inzaji, coming from Inter Milan, to succeed Portuguese Jorge Jesus.
Real is chasing compensation
Real Madrid seeks to avoid repeating its local failures this season, after losing the three local championships against Barcelona, and bid farewell to the Champions League from the quarter -finals against Arsenal. Thanks to its stars battalion, headed by Killian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior, the royal team hopes to start his tournament with a victory that restores him.
Al Hilal aspires to surprise
Al -Hilal enters the meeting with high aspirations despite the difficulty of confrontation, based on widespread public support and a desire to compensate for a frustrated season locally. Saudi reports revealed that Inzaji is planning to push a strong defensive formation consisting of Renan Lodi, Joao Kansilo, Khaled Coulibaly, and Hassan Timbukti, with the aim of limiting the seriousness of the Real attack.
The new tournament system
The tournament will be held for the first time with the participation of 32 clubs from different continents of the world, with 12 teams from Europe, 4 from Asia, 4 from Africa, 4 from North America, and 6 from South America, as well as a representative of Oceania and a team from the host country. The teams are the first and second places of each group to the round of 16, which will be held in the upper -up -up system of the upcoming final on the 13th of next July at the “Mettlif” stadium in New Jersey.
