International football
Real Madrid tied with Al Hilal in its first game under the technical direction of Xabi Alonso. Asensio committed a children’s penalty and Valverde erred the shot that could mean the victory.
Federico Valverde, number 8 of Real Madrid CF, reacts after a penalty fails. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
He real Madrid It did not go from a 1-1 draw against Al Hilal, in which it was the debut of Xabi Alonso on the bench of the Merengue box.
The intense heat in the hard rock stadium did not favor the show, but the Real Madrid also didn’t show his best version and made mistakes They ended up costing him expensive, directly affecting the result.
On the one hand, there is the one converted by Rúben Neves by means of the penalty, after A fault committed by Raúl Asencio. This action was not out of the conversation on social networks, since many argued that it did not merit being considered as maximum penalty.
On the other hand, there are those who think otherwise: that Asencio made a child error and that the penalty was well sanctioned.
Outside that play, Real Madrid was not as fine as the merengue fans waited in Xabi Alonso’s debut on the bench.
In the end, Madrid’s impetus weighed more, and at minute 87 the referee was called to review an action in which Mohammed al Qahtani committed Fran García in the area. After the intervention of VAR, Real Madrid had the opportunity to turn from the twelve steps.
However, fate again did not accompany those led by Xabi Alonso, since the penalty executed by Federico Valverde was stopped by Yassine Bouou.
“The first part our game was too slow, it has been hard for us to find the game rhythm. They created much more danger but we found the goal and then we made a somewhat silly penalty and tied us,” was what the goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois declared after the commitment.