Winning Mentality: Three Points Only

Only Florentino knows if Xabi Alonso spoke this Sunday in the Bernabéu press room for the penultimate time. The white team’s fall since the victory against the classic has not ended. From +5 to -4 in just forty days they leave … Madrid already with a certain distance to fight for the championship, and what is worse, with a feeling of apathy and neglect that has no justification: «It was not the game we wanted and expected. We have been missing things and we have only reacted with one less. That’s when we pushed and ran. “People are angry and we understand it, and now we have to show another side on Wednesday,” Alonso said.

It was an analysis with some crumbs, but from there Alonso put it on autopilot and castled himself like the worst «There are only three points today and there is still a lot of League left. “You can have a bad game at home.”

Reflections full of clichés and empty of content that do not help to improve what was a depressing image on the field, as has happened in the last month, even in the victory in Athens, where from midfield to the back the team was a disaster. Not even the excuse of the two red cards against Celta saves this half-dead Madrid: «The referee’s decisions have unhinged us. The card to Álvaro is very debatable, as if he really wanted to… I didn’t like the refereeing at all and that made us lose control a little. A justification that he repeated with Militao’s injury: «It has been difficult for us to recover after that mishap. “We are suffering a lot of injuries.”

In the final mess, after the red card for Carreras, a frustrating “get more red cards” could be read on Vinicius’s lips. And so it was. Endrick, one of the many substitutes who protested the Galician’s two consecutive yellow cards (the second for telling him “you’re terrible”), was also sent off. A global disruption that reopens the wounds of a Madrid on the limit. At least his coach, although he doesn’t want to see it: “We all take the blame and the responsibility to change belongs to everyone. On Wednesday we have a nice opportunity in a competition in which we are well positioned.”

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