Xabi Alonso's new new method

This summer, Real Madrid decided to start a revolution. After the end of the cycle noted with Carlo Ancelotti and his methods, the Madrid club decided to bet on a completely different profile in the person of Xabi Alonso. The young 43 -year -old Spanish coach embodies football much more in tune with the times. Passed by the club as a player, the former Liverpool showed his qualities of coach in Bayer Leverkusen with two exceptional seasons in both the result and in the game.

So inevitably, it is eagerly awaited this season by taking the lead of a fairly muddled team in the offensive and defensive animation for two seasons now. With an attractive workforce, but which presents certain limits, Xabi Alonso will have to work to metamorphose a team accustomed to Ancelotti football. For his first on the Madrid bench, the Spanish technician also started with a 1-1 draw against Al-Hilal. “We leave four years with Ancelotti where we had automatisms, so we try to change these automatisms to adapt to what the coach wants now, but it is not in four days that we will get there. We watch videos, we talk a lot, we will learn a lot about this match and progress ”explained Thibault Courtois after the meeting.

Xabi Alonso uses drones

Real Madrid actually has work and Xabi Alonso is aware of it. And he puts the odds on his side. According to information from Markthe former Real Sociedad coach has been using an unprecedented method for Real Madrid for a few days: drones. The club's training sessions are filmed using drone to observe players' trips and better analyze performance during video sessions. A method that Real Madrid did not use absolutely under Carlo Ancelotti since the Italian technician did not film all the sessions.

In addition to the drones he did not use at Bayer Leverkusen, Xabi Alonso has also installed several cameras above the training ground as well as several sensors at different levels along the field. The objective: that his staff can collect much more data and information on players than in the past. It remains to be seen whether it will eventually bear fruit, but Xabi Alonso decided to break the Codes of Real Madrid to accelerate the tactical assimilation process of its players. Answer in the next match against Pachuca at the World Cup.