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Statistics point to defensive improvement at Real Madrid under Xabi Alonso

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One of Carlo Ancelotti’s most famous phrases during his second spell in charge at Real Madrid was that he liked his defenders to be pessimistic. In the opening games in La Liga, Los Blancos have been generating plenty of reasons for optimism under Xabi Alonso. For while the Italian has a reputation for giving his players freedom in the final third, and fitting together star-studded forwards, his rhetoric was often based around defensive solidity…
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The white leg is positioned as the most solid of LaLiga. Xabi’s sign numbers that reflect the team’s great defensive work When Xabi landed in Madrid to put himself at the head of the white ensemble, he had clear one of his primary objectives: to strengthen the defense and provide it with solidity and reliability. Last season he exposed one of the main cracks of the team: his defensive fragility. Ancelotti, conditioned by several casualties in th…

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MadridistaReal broke the news in on Sunday, September 7, 2025.
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