Overview
- Real Madrid host Celta at the Bernabéu today in the coaches’ first meeting as first-team managers, with Celta owning 7 wins in 68 visits.
- Giráldez says Madrid should show patience with Xabi Alonso, insisting he will do a “spectacular” job at the club.
- The two managers are depicted as aligned on a possession-first approach that often features three center-backs and attack-minded full-backs.
- The Celta coach admits his side must raise their overall level and improve goal output, noting injuries to Williot Swedberg and Hugo Álvarez have weighed on finishing.
- He warns about Madrid’s speed to break games as well as their ability to control possession and alter full-back height to build play.