Re: UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season
by on 13/12/2025, 10:02:18 UTC
Xabi Alonso is already under pressure for losing both in the champions League and the league, they lost against Manchester Celta Vigo in the league before going to the champions League to lose against Manchester City, they are in the second in the league and still trying not to miss out in the champions League knockout stage. From the performance of Real Madrid I don't know if they will qualify to the next stage in the champions League even though they qualify they are not going to make it to the finals unless they improve in their performance and their players come back from injury.
The remaining 2 matches for Real Madrid:
- vs Monaco home
- vs Benfica away
The first one is highly winnable. Monaco have got worse this season. Their biggest problem is with defending. I can't say they are scoring a lot in the CL either. We saw an example of it against Galatasaray. They found a lot of chances but were able to score only once.
The Benfica one is trickier and this will be the decider for Real Madrid to finish in top 8 in case of beating Monaco. Benfica won their last 2 matches and now they have hope for top 24. Xabi Alonso had better make progress until then.
As Monaco won their last match against Galatasaray though they’ve been in on and off form but they got lucky that day and won, so it is with football. The unexpected can always happen at any time and a lot of teams have not been performing at their best this season and consistently too. Only Arsenal and Bayern I can say have not been disappointing or inconsistent.