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XABI ALONSO IT DESVELA EVERYTHING

The plan of Mourinho, Bouquets and Xabi Alonso to stop to Messi

Published:13/12/2017 - 17:09h

Updated:14/12/2017 - 14:05h

Xabi Alonso, ex midfield player of the Real Madrid in the period in which Guardiola and Mourinho coincided in the benches of the Real Madrid and the Barcelona, desveló the plan that the Portuguese technician wove beside Bouquets and to him same to brake to Messi

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Xabi Alonso suffered during a lot of seasons to Leo Messi like rival in the classical that the Real Madrid contested against the FC Barcelona. The ex midfield player tolosarra, in an interview conceded to Echos of the Balloon, desvela the plan that wove beside José Mourinho and to Sergio Bouquets to stop the electrical football of the Argentinian.

"Messi has done me a lot of damage, I have suffered it a lot. It did us squeeze us a lot the head. We spoke a lot with Mourinho and with Sergio Bouquets. How It was hurting us? How could control it? It played Messi and, by behind, of right interior, Xavi. And they caused you. Xavi taught me the balloon, I went, Messi put in my back and had to go out Sergio to by him, and hammered us", admitted the tolosarra.

"Only we begin to control to Messi when I was I, and no Sergio, the one who commissioned of his desmarque. Xavi called me, but I remained me with Messi and like this Sergio did not have to go out, and from here, control it quite well. We sacrificed metres and can steal to prioritise in Messi. And when we control him in this position, the Barça-Madrid equalised ", explained Xabi Alonso.

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Xabi Alonso also desveló that, as a result of the 5-0 fit in the Camp Nou, the Madrid learnt of his errors and knew to improve his game. "The famous party of the 5-0 in the Camp Nou did us change a lot of things. In this moment were not to the level to compete against that Barça", recognised.

"But to the following year already notice that yes we could. Against the Barça and in general. We happen to have a much more dominant game. To finals of 2011 were exultant. We knew it: in four played were able to break any party. It was like going to the park of attractions", sentenced.

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