Real Madrid kicked off their 2025 Club World Cup campaign with a 1-1 draw against Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal. Xabi Alonso, Dean Huijsen, and Trent Alexander Arnold made their debuts for Los Blancos, but couldn’t get all 3 points following a last minute penalty miss by Federico Valverde. Adam Hunt and Chris Wittyngham recap the match and discuss what went wrong for Real Madrid!
00:00 Coming Up…
00:15 Real Madrid vs. Al-Hilal recap
02:10 Is Club World Cup ideal for Xabi Alonso?
03:57 Has Xabi Alonso made a difference for Madrid already?
05:10 Dean Huijsen and Trent Alexander-Arnold make debuts for Real Madrid
06:31 How did Vinicius Jr. perform?
08:03 Real Madrid looked tired
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Hilal didn't actually win any title this season.
Vini played World Cup qualifiers literally weeks prior
Al Halil is freakin good. Really good quality players 🤙🏽
Real Madrid was pathetic first half
Even European clubs pay lots of money, their players are not playing for charity
Please give credit to Alhilal
You guys are so jealous
0:00 Eu farei 10x se for preciso. Eles não estão preparados.
Zero Zero excuses. Al Hilal played under the same heat and they also just finished their season. Playing 34 leagues games in Saudi boiling heat. So no excuse about the weather. Their last game was on May 26. Madrid last game was in May 24. So stop blabbering about the heat.
Like the brazilians said: stolen penalties doesnt get scored
Thats what happened between Real Madrid versus Bono from Al Hilal
Salem Aldawsari, the main winger for Al-Hilal actually played a match in the La Liga. And was subbed on when Villarreal were losing 2-0 against Real Madrid. And with his efforts, the match ended up being 2-2. He only played one match for Villarreal and showed that he could hang in the top leagues.
Come on, let's be real here… everyone expecting Madrid to do a Bayern on Al-Hilal have 0 ball knowledge…those Al-Hilal starting 11 are not farmers… that team would finish top 5 in La Liga!!
Stop saying front 4 we don't need Bellingham playing forward we have goal scorers
Bench Bellingham and vinicius anceloti spoiled they will never follow instructions
Now you know Saudi league is not as easy as you thought.
This is a message to Tony Kroos that his team couldn't get past Al Hilal, the soudi league that he criticised. 😅
Training may have been fooling Xabi as if his message is received. Now that a game has been played, I believe it has given Xabi an idea where he stands with the team and where to fix.
Al Hilal was amazing. If we put them in the UCL they can definitely reach the semis
Al-Hilal had a lot more cohesion because maybe they all are used to play together?
But stop with your Mbappe's obsession. If Vini was that good, he would have played better and would not be have been affected by a new player. All I see is that he takes the wrong decision like not passing the ball to Bellingham to instead shoot in a wall and not making any effort when he loses the ball. In what way this is Mbappe's fault? All his drive last season was because people – suspecting that Mbappe was coming – said he was Ballon d'or material. He was motivated because of that but he is not a great player. I wish he was.
💙💙💙💙
I think Trent is bit lier, he was supposed to be happy of training sessions and I don't think he was there 😂
Alonso should be sacked
Mbappe wasn't the problem
How can modic be on the pitch and valverde played the penalty. Please ascensio should be sold or dropped cos he's an inexperienced defender
Honestly even when I looked at the bench we dont have a team. Lets be honest madrid is bigger than ALONXO
the penalty to RM in the 90th minute is a great gift
Real Madrid are in real trouble.
I did not see any improvements on this team and they still have trouble scoring goals.
All the changes this team has made, from coaching to players, has not made any improvements at all.
Poor Madridistas are going to have another sad and painful season again this season just like last season.
Xabi needs more time to implement his system, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't win this tournament.
These bums got talent, just no chemistry
The sky it blue
Vini thought this is La Liga…😂
At this point, not having Arda as a starter is treasonous. He brings the spark that’s been missing.
The miss is due to ego issues. One of the laziest penalties to be taken. At the death, just put your laces through it.
💙🤍💙🤍💙 Alhilal the glory is blue 💙 🤍 💙🤍
I should've listened to Ronaldo lol
saying anything but giving credit to alhilal
AlHilal should won this game
With Bellingham and Arnold we can be absolutely certain Real Madrid is not going to win any trophies next year either. So overrated it's ridiculous
See this is what happens when u dont make mbappe play
Saudi League is good.
This was the standatd Real, not the rusty one
Are we still pushing the narrative that Mbappe is the problem given the state of the midfield and defense? And how's he being blamed for someone else's underperformance? Especially since he's playing through the middle majority of the time and not on the wing. Such lazy analysis.
Alhilal deserved better result
Good luck to Alhilal next matches
Shagi Alontoast ball 😎🔥
Raphinha and Yamal be fighting for the LW position
All Nico Williams is asking for is Madrid to further extend Trent's contract—that's all he wants
I mean real madrid played a wrong formation it should be 3-4-3 rodrygo,vini,mbappe as the front 3 and bellingham and valverde control midfield while trent and arda control the wings and the defence will be asencio and huisjen and start either camavinga or tchoumeeni