MADRID.- The coach of real Madrid, Xabi Alonsorevealed Monday that the new signing from River Plate, Franco Mastantuonowho highlighted his “Argentine competitive spirit”, could debut on Tuesday against Osasuna.
“You can have minutes tomorrow (Tuesday). It will contribute quality, energy, it is committed defensively, it has a good impulse,” Alonso said in his first press conference prior to the start of the league season.
“I have seen that it has that claw and that Argentine competitive spirit. It is good in the last pass. It is at a very good level,” said the Donostiarra, at the same time that he assured that he has logic that his favorite player is (Lionel) Messi: “Being Argentine is not a surprise for me.”
In addition, Alonso confessed that he was very surprised by Mastantuono’s personality when he spoke for the first time with the midfielder. “He was still 17 years old and was a man with great security in himself. He had no vertigo to take the step to come to Real Madrid,” he said.
Before a room to overflow with expectant journalists of its beginning at the head of the Madrid squad when eleven years of its last game as a merengue player, Alonso avoided talking about the market.
“I have all who are and I want everyone to be 100%, we need it,” said Tolosarra.
Does not think of individualities
Asked about the connection between the Brazilian Vinicius and the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé, Alonso insisted on the “idea of functioning as a team.”
“For the strikers it is important that the laps do not stay off, but also that when we attack the defensive line,” said the coach.
On the moment that the star of Barcelona, Lamine Yamal, said he does not have a “pressureometer” and just said that he is being an important player for Barça and the selection. “He will have to face him,” he said.
He also agreed with the white club statement criticizing that the match of LaLiga Between Villarreal and Barcelona it is played in the United States, as the employer wishes and for which the Spanish Federation was approved recently.
“If the rules are changed, it must be unanimously of all participants. Now,” he settled.
