Real Madrid Can Play Much Better – Álvaro Arbeloa

Real Madrid manager Álvaro Arbeloa has come out to admit that the team can play much better. This comes after a 2-1 defeat at Osasuna on Saturday saw the team drop points in the La Liga title race.

According to him, despite the control Real Madrid players showed against Osasuna yesterday, the team still lacked the required speed to kill off the opponent.

Arbeloa added that he’ll keep working with the players until they’re able to grind out maximum results consistently.

His words, “It wasn’t a good game for us.

We can do a lot more, we can play much better. It isn’t easy to do it in midweek and then a Sunday, but those are the demands, this is Real Madrid. We knew how difficult it would be to come here.

Nobody wants to lose of course. But it will be a long season. There’s a lot left. In the first half we had quite a lot of control, but we lacked speed in our game, we have to move the ball much more quickly.

We have to keep working, we have to open teams up on the wings. We’re playing a lot down the left, but we have to do it on the other side too, otherwise we’re too easy to defend.

We know we did good things last Tuesday [against Benfica] that today it wasn’t so easy to do.

We have a lot of room for improvement, and when we aren’t at 100% any team can beat you, we’re aware of that.”

WOW.

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It was under Florentino Pérez’s first presidency (2000–2006) that Real Madrid started its ambition of becoming the world’s richest professional football club. The club ceded part of its training grounds to the city of Madrid in 2001, and sold the rest to four corporations: Repsol YPF, Mutua Automovilística de Madrid, Sacyr Vallehermoso and OHL.

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