Xabi Alonso will need time to make Real Madrid a team in his image. For his great first on the Bench of the White House, the one who wore the Merengue jersey between 2009 and 2014 did not have the opportunity to receive praises from the Spanish press. His team looked greatly like that of Carlo Ancelotti, as Thibaut Courtois pointed out, and lacked creativity once arrived on the opposing repair area. And in addition to that, the Madrilenians fell back into their fault: again, they missed a penalty.
Against al-Hilal, the teammates of Vinicius were granted a penalty at the end of the game, absolutely decisive while the score was 1-1. Federico Valverde was responsible for executing the sentence, driving on Yassine Bounou. This missed attempt is added to a very long kick list at the eleven meters not converted this season: since the start of the exercise, Real Madrid has missed 7 of 19 attempts, the worst ratio of all the teams of the five major European championships. The icing on the cake: the Casa Blanca is the one that fired the most.
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