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hasta el final

[Madrid Xtra @MadridXtra]

🚨 JUST IN: Jose Mourinho and Vinicius Jr have SPOKEN numerous times.

He has reinforced the importance of Vinicius Jr directly to him. @geglobo

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@SeputarMadrid langsung banget nih pi

[サザンドラぁ？！ @sazan_tenhapi]

全然サッカー知らないけど、ヴィニシウスっていう選手だけは素人目で見ても明らかに違うもんなぁ。
こいつをなんとかしろマジで。

[Madrid Xtra @MadridXtra]

🚨 BREAKING: Real Betis are interested in Fran García but Real Madrid have asked for €20 MILLION.

They do NOT want to pay that.

Negotiations are currently ON HOLD. @Sergivalentin_

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@thejurgenholic Haaland goal lagi? Tentu saja dia akan diam ..🤫🇺🇾

[Futbol de Inglaterra @Mercado_Ingles]

🚨🌎 Un sostenedor de la bandera de República Checa de la FIFA se quedó atrapado en la enorme bandera mientras los demás la enrollaban. 😭🇨🇿

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

CHAMPIONS!!!!! 🏆 🟡🔵

[Managing Madrid @managingmadrid]

"Mbappe was supposed to be the guy that fattens the margin of error — that takes the offense to another level.

On the surface, he did his part: He’s scored 85 goals in the past two season, and that includes a slow start to his Real Madrid career as well as missing seven games this season due to knee problems.

But his goals came with a cost: The team’s defensive shape fell off a cliff, and the structure of the team broke over and over again with him on the field. Vinicius, nominally a hard working winger on defense, had his defense dip when Mbappe was on the field (and not when Mbappe wasn’t). My theory: ‘if that guy doesn’t defend, why should I’? The defensive shape looked better when Vinicius was paired with Gonzalo Garcia or Brahim Diaz.

Paradoxically, despite Mbappe scoring nearly 60% of Real Madrid’s goals, the team didn’t look too worried about Mbappe’s absence in certain games. For example, in a four game stretch without him, they outscored opponents 14-5. Three of those four games were against Manchester City (twice) and Atletico Madrid. Despite being reliant on Mbappe’s goals when he’s on the field, the team looked confident in scoring without him, and part of that was because Valverde had much more offensive freedom without Mbappe. Valverde, in Munich, was a ghost, in part because Arbeloa needed him to do defensive work deep trying to accommodate Mbappe, Bellingham, and Vinicius higher up the field.

The question is: How does any of this make sense? Real Madrid added Kylian Mbappe to a Champions League winning team, and it tanked.

Part of the explanation is tactical, part of it is psychological. Mbappe is not a spiritual leader the way Benzema was. He puts his head down and does what he knows how to do. Benzema was more of a leader, a rallier — a man who could pump ice into his veins and tell his teammates ‘I got this, we’ll be ok’ when the team was backed into a wall. He gave directions. Teammates listened.

The tactical aspect is also clear: Mbappe likes freedom to operate in whatever zone he feels like operating in. That’s often deep, in the left half-space, in close proximity to where Vinicius is on the left wing. That’s not dissimilar to where Benzema liked to be; but Benzema also could act as a target in the box when the team needed him to, and he also had tremendous off-ball work rate and led by example.

The solution, from a tactical standpoint, if both players have to play, is also straightforward and not talked about enough, but admittedly more challenging in practice than merely putting it into words: Real Madrid need to recognize, collectively, on the fly, what run the team needs and it requires a constant recalibration of where Mbappe is. They have done better at this specific wrinkle over the past two months. Mbappe did make a lot of the right runs he was supposed to make against Bayern, and when he wasn’t there, Valverde or Thiago Pitarch would make that central forward run instead so that the team remained fluid with options. Most recently, against Real Betis, it was Bellingham acting as the target.

The other tactical concern is more challenging: The defensive side of things. If Real Madrid are to generate more chances without hurting their defensive line, they need to be masterful counter-pressers — something Mbappe is better at than when he’s asked to sit into a mid-block where his presence alone makes the first line of defense vulnerable. The ease at which opponents slice through is because of the numerical superiority they boast once passing the forwards. All of a sudden, the midfielders and defenders tread water marking more than one player.

That’s where finding the right coach becomes challenging, because the tactical concerns they will face won’t go away, and every coach wants his players to work hard, run, press, and make different runs. Every coach will have a difficult task doing these things with this team — hence why the board should look at holding players accountable as much as the coaches they bring in.

There was a promising high press brewing with Xabi Alonso earlier this season, but for reasons discussed to death, that team evaporated and Alonso was fired. Arbeloa’s record is even worse. The main difference between Arbeloa and Alonso is that the players and board both like Arbeloa — though he is a dead man walking anyway and part of the reason the board likes him is because he says what the board wants him to say, which is unhealthy in itself. Alonso was less diplomatic and more authoritative. Many felt that’s exactly what the team needed given what happened the season prior.

Alas, finding the man who can balance everything is challenging. Jurgen Klopp, for example, is a legend. The most obvious question to him is the same one I asked Alonso last summer during the Club World Cup: ‘How will you press with a forward who doesn’t press’?"

- @KiyanSo : https://t.co/r6V4edeSsI

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra @diarioas Perez wont like this idea

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra @yagosabuncuoglu Sanitas never miss

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra him in every press conference would be a chef kiss

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra Great osasuna future player 🔥

[Jihad Brahmantyo | #pelanpelanlamalamajadijuga @Gieehad]

Danantara Rekrutmen 2026

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra @AranchaMOBILE I think its a good filter, whoever still wants to play and die for this badge will bounce back, the cowards will leave

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@centregoals The math is mathing

[Ace @RMxAce]

In the past 1 year, Vinicius JR:

- Had Lucas Vazquez/Ceballos tell him to calm down and stop crashing out at his own teammates
- Lashed out at Fran Garcia.
- Lashed out at Luka Modric after Modric told him to help defend with them.
- Has been publicly criticized by Toni Kroos for his lack of emotional control.
- Has played significantly worse than ever before.
- Has disrespected Xabi Alonso and turned a good season into a bad season almost singlehandedly as results tanked right after his outburst.
- Publicly whined to Xabi Alonso that nobody passes to him and that everyone dribbles too much, proceeding to trashtalk Gonzalo Garcia who is literally an inexperienced kid who SCORED A HAT-TRICK that day btw.

The fact he trashtalked Luka Modric literally showed me that this "man" has no limit. He's completely lost the plot and he's just too egotistical.

I don't understand how anyone can make excuses for him anymore. It's so beyond me. If you're a Madridista, you must surely be disgusted at some point... but the truth is a lot of you are fake Madrid fans that prefer a single player over the club.

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra @marca Its like u just hate this new teacher in class and u start whispering to each other 😭

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@thejurgenholic Nyawit nih orang

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra Even kabin know this, Real so exposed.

[muhshofyan @muhshfyn]

@MadridXtra @marca So does Endrick