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Real Madrid begins its Club World Cup campaign with a confrontation with the Saudi side, in Hilal, which marks a first game by Xabi Alonso.
Former Bayer Leverkusen head left the Bundesliga club to return to Madrid, a club with whom he won five trophies as a player.
He will expect to win his first coach at the World Cup of Expanded Clubs, with this opening edition of the new format of 32 teams.
Madrid is a great favorite to start with a victory against one side in Hilal playing under Simone Inzghi for the first time. Inzghi left Inter Milan to take over Al Hilal after the defeat of Nerazzurri 5-0 against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final last month.
And Liverpool’s former champion, Alonso, has given a debut to a player who left the Reds to join Los Blancos, as well as another signing on the back.
Trent Alexander-Arnold makes his arch of Madrid when he begins to the right after his move from Liverpool. Dean Hujsen, the Spanish Signed Center of Bournemouth, is also named the XI for his debut.
His colleague from England, Jude Bellingham, who had a shoulder surgery after the tournament, begins, surprisingly, in the middle field.
But there is a more unknown name ahead, with Gonzalo Garcia playing in the center instead of Kylian Mbappe, who has been treating a disease.
Garcia made only six appearances in his career in Madrid, scoring his first goal at the Club at the Rey Cup in February.
Real Madrid: Cortada; Alexander-Arnold, Assinci, Huijsen, France Garcia; Backhadge, Valummer, Bellingham; Vinicus, Rodrygo, Garcia.
Substitutes: Water, Andres, Eyesheskes, Diaz, Fortea, Fran, Guler, Luke Vazquez, Monday,
Inzghi has surprisingly selected a family face, choosing Sergej Milinkovic-Savic in the initial 11th.
Milinkovic-Savic played under Inzghi in Lazio from 2016 until the latter departure in 2021.
But Inzghi has not been able to call another Serbia star, with Aleksandar Mitrovic.
It is said that Mitrovic, who scored 19 goals in the Saudi League Pro by 2024-25, is a muscle injury, which means that Marcos Leonardo leads the line.
To Hilal: Bonus; I cancel, at the Tambakti, Koulbaly, Lodi; Neves, Milinkovic-Savic, salt in the Dawsar; Malcom, Marcos Leonardo, Nasser al Dawsari.
Substitutes: Abu Rasen, in Bulayhi, Khalifah in Dawsari, Ghaannam, Hadhood, Hamdan, Harbi, Jewish, Qaahtani, Rubie, Yami, Kanno, Lajami.