In addition to the obvious financial issue and the possibility of catching up a 2024/2025 season which had been complicated at all levels, this 2025 club World Cup was also the opportunity for some players to prove themselves in front of Xabi Alonso, their new coach. The Madrids were thus keen to prove to the Basque tactician that he could count on them and offer them a more or less important place in the team in the coming season. Some have seized this opportunity wonderfully, like Fran Garcia, Arda Güler or Gonzalo Garcia, authors of rather satisfactory services before the half.
Others, however, have clearly lost points. If the average services of Vinicius Jr or Jude Bellingham should not cost them their place, the cataclysmic copies rendered by Raul Asencio could however have terrible consequences for the Spanish defender. So strong and solid in liga, so much so that he was the only satisfaction of last season for many, he completely sank during this tournament in US land, punctuating all this with a catastrophic meeting against Paris.
Goodbye to the eleven holder?
His competition, which had started badly with a penalty offered in al-Hilal and then an expulsion in the second match against Pachuca, place him in the heart of criticism. And we know that generally, the media are a little more indulgent with young people from the training center. It's simple, in an article of Mark Where all the Merengues are noted on their performances during the Club World Cup, Raul Asencio receives a… 0/10. By far the worst note of the team, while most players get the average.
Author of individual errors that he did not know, often poorly placed, not confident, outdated, Asencio is also probably touched by his case of diffusion of child pornographic images, in which he is always involved. But with the arrival of Dean Huijsen, rather to his advantage during this tournament, the return of Éder Militão and the possible arrival of another central defender by the end of the transfer window, Asencio knows that he may have lost his place in the team after his disastrous performances …
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