The curtain falls on Mestalla y aparece Trent Alexander-Arnold. It’s no joke. That’s it the scenario that Arbeloa plans for tomorrow and that Real Madrid is looking forward toeager to see the English full-back begin to dominate Madrid’s right wing. If he plays, it won’t be improvisation. His recovery has been macerating, which was initially aimed at the game against Rayo last Sunday, but he opted to win this extra week. It is to welcome you in 2026, because Trent is the only player on the white squad who has not yet played this year.
“There is no rush with him, he was not signed for one day,” has been slipping from the club, which insists that patience is the mother of science. Trent’s two long-term injurieswhich occurred in the middle of the game (against Real on September 13 and in San Mamés, on December 3), were among the pile of reasons given by the highest levels of the entity to precipitate at the beginning of january the return of doctor Niko Mihic. Stopping these types of ailments like those of the Englishman is one of the Croatian doctor’s missions in this second stage at the club, now as supervisor of the medical area.
The club has been shielding him from the rumors, echoed in England but unfounded, that Arbeloa does not like him. Even that Madrid would want him to leave. Neither one thing nor the other. As this newspaper reported, from Madrid the side was comforted since he learned how serious his last injury was (“I’m devastated,” the Real Madrid No. 12 admitted) so that he wouldn’t hasten his return. There’s Trent for a while.
Starting with Valencia. The former Liverpool man has a job. Valverde will help in the middle and without Carvajal still available, it will be up to the Englishman begin to quickly recover the sensations that he left before his misfortune in Bilbao. There he started with great vigor and gave his first assist as a Real Madrid player for Mbappé’s 0-1 in the 7th minute. flash and an association still very much in its infancy, but one that gives hope to Arbeloa and the club. That is the Trent that Real Madrid has opted for and who is expected.
A power to exploit
One of the reasons is that he is still seen as an offensive force in his own right. Bilbao was the norm when I played for Liverpool. There every three games billed a goal or an assist. He participated in 115 goals for the Anfield team (he scored 23 goals and 92 assists) with one more extra, because there he was capital in the strategic plays.
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Trent experienced the change of the bench from the relative solitude of working with the physical recoverers, but this final stretch on the green, with Arbeloa pampering him. Another who was a right back at both Anfield and the Bernabéu and who also understands the particular way of being of the Liverpool natives. The three corners of the triangle, Trent, Arbeloa and Madrid, hope that the third time is the charm…
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