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Xabi Alonso has admitted Real Madrid was exposed connected Trent Alexander-Arnold’s flank successful Wednesday’s triumph implicit Juventus, and implied helium has not been overly impressed by ex-Liverpool’s antheral commencement to beingness astatine Los Blancos.
Real progressed to the quarter-finals of the Club World Cup connected Tuesday courtesy of a 1-0 triumph implicit Juventus. It was a scrappy performance from the 15-time European champions, peculiarly successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Juve created respective unsafe openings connected the break.
But Real exerted much power successful the 2nd play and recovered a decisive extremity via Gonzalo Garcia, who is enjoying thing successful a breakthrough tourney successful the US. The youngster’s victor was supplied by Alexander-Arnold’s cross into the box, which was headed location confidently.
It was the 26-year-old’s archetypal assistance for his caller nine successful what was a mixed performance. Deployed erstwhile again successful a close wing-back role, Alexander-Arnold was caught retired of presumption connected a fewer occasions, with Andrea Cambiaso and Kenan Yildiz creating respective openings down the Real right.
It’s a caller acquisition for the England international, who has played the bulk of his vocation connected the close of a backmost four, and helium is inactive intelligibly adapting. Speaking aft the match, Alonso said helium expects Alexander-Arnold’s show levels to improve.
“We were caught retired by Yildiz's presumption successful the middle. Everything takes time, but I person religion successful him,” claimed the erstwhile Liverpool and Real midfielder.
“He's a reliable full-back and truthful is [Dani] Carvajal. We volition amended from the corporate broadside to the idiosyncratic and not the different mode around.”
It’s not conscionable the defence that is intelligibly inactive adapting to Alonso’s system, 1 helium perfected astatine Bayer Leverkusen.
Vinicius Junior played successful a much cardinal presumption but didn’t look comfy successful the triumph implicit Juve.
“He tin bash both: wrong and outside,” said Alonso. “The 2nd portion of the archetypal fractional was bully and truthful was the 2nd half.
“The abstraction was connected the extracurricular and erstwhile we insisted connected playing connected the wrong they were capable to travel retired connected the counter. We gave him width and for that we needed him connected the outside.
“He interpreted it well. The different time helium gave america a batch of abstraction connected the inside. Juventus were rather heavy and the abstraction was much connected the extracurricular than connected the inside.”
Real faces Borussia Dortmund successful the quarter-finals connected Saturday and the victor of that necktie volition look either Paris Saint-Germain oregon Bayern Munich successful the past 4 of the competition.
Alexander-Arnold has started each 4 games for Real astatine the Club World Cup, completing the afloat 90 minutes successful each of the past two.
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