Real Madrid Madrid solves with the Austrian you go of water in the axis of the rear, the side and the pivot
El Real Madrid already has a closed agreement with David Alaba. The Austrian player will sign for the next four seasons and the defender has already passed the medical examination. Contract ends in June 2021, so they reach the white team free. It is considered a strategic signing for the 2021-22 season and Zinedine Zidane opens a range of possibilities to build his eleven with Alaba.
With the arrival of the Austrian to the white squad, the Madrid He covers three positions in the last few years in which he has had serious problems when the starters have not been able to be: the left-back, the axis of the defense and the defensive pivot. In these three areas it has shown Alaba that moves easily. In addition, he is a player who contributes goals: 35 he adds since he is a player of the Bayern.
It is a position in which Marcelo has made history with him Madrid, but it seems clear that the best times for the Brazilian have passed. Arrived Mendy last season to noticeably improve defensive performance on the left-back, but the Madrid needs more than a rock. So far, the Frenchman has contributed one goal and two assists. Little offensive argument for a team like white.
It is the system that could best fit Alaba at Real Madrid. Is higher than Ferland mendy, with a lot of arrival and with a lot of contribution in attack. The Austrian centers very well and is also a footballer who dominates that facet. It would be an interesting projection with a defensive line with Carvajal as right back and Ramos and Varane as centrals … as long as the one from Beds renews with the Whites.
The great debate right now about the immediate future of Madrid is the continuity or not of Ramos. It is a decision of historical significance, one of those steps that marks a before and after in the event that the captain of the Madrid decide to change teams when the season is over.
If that process ends with Sergio’s departure, the natural coupling of David Alaba It will be to occupy the central position. Left central, without modifying much the skeleton of the Madrid eleven. Let us remember that now Alaba is playing in the Bayern left-handed central. If Zidane uses this drawing, the defense will lack character and race, something that Sergio Ramos did.
The explosion of Davies and the signing of Lucas Hernndez has led the Austrian to be the regular partner of Boateng o Sle in the axis of defense. Of his 24 games this season, 21 have been in that position. Last season there were eight in the left-handed lane and 34 in the center of defense. The Alaba that arrives at Madrid is much more central than lateral.
And Sergio Ramos is still at Real Madrid, there will be a competition between Alaba and Varane. If the Austrian ends up being the game, the logical thing is that Zidane will use the new player to the right profile in that pair of centrals. With this option, Madrid is assured leadership and veteran of Ramos and a great exit from the ball with Alaba.
That way doesn’t seem the most likely. The couple Ramos-Varane it is not touched for Zidane beyond injury or penalty issues. The French central is essential for his coach and there is no clue to think that the arrival of Alaba could mean a change. If you maintain the current status, the logical thing is to think about the exit of Marcelo, the ownership of Alaba and Mendy as an alternative.
The pivot position is the private property of Casemiro since 2015. The Brazilian is the force that supports the talent of Kroos y Modric in a legendary midfield and that has engulfed all those who have passed through Real Madrid in the last season, the last Martin Odegaaard.
The arrival of David Alaba Madrid does not put at risk Casemiro. The Austrian has played little in that position at Bayern, but it is his in his national team. Largely because Austria lacks the talent of the Bavarian team, but also because One He has shown his coaches that from that position he is capable of generating play and protecting his rear. It is not something new. Shortly after debuting with Austria, in November 2010 and before Greece, I already played in that position. In it, he has traveled a large part of the 76 games he has played with his country.
However, since November 2017 he has not played in that area. He has almost always done it as inside left in a marked 4-4-2.
With Alaba there is no competition for Casemiro, but there is an alternative in a position in which Madrid has run out of answers after the departure of Marcos Llorente. When the Brazilian, for whom the rotations hardly exist, has not been able to play the news has not been too good for Madrid. So much so that in the 2019 preseason he shortened his vacation after the America Cup to the mess that was in the team.
In short, with Alaba A lot of solutions arrive in Madrid, many of them for critical positions in which the present and the future generate questions that with the Austrian are less disturbing.
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