Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid faced off this Wednesday at New York’s MetLife Stadium in the semi-finals of the 2025 Club World Cup. The match ended in a 4-0 Parisian victory (video highlights PSG/Real Madrid). After the match, Madrid’s coach Xabi Alonso spoke to DAZN. He was clear: his team wasn’t up to scratch.
Alonso “we weren’t connected.”
Was it a difficult match?
I’m not necessarily going to analyze the match. I’m going to make an overall analysis of this competition. Things like tonight can happen, but 2-0 against PSG after 10 minutes is complicated.
We weren’t connected and the second half was generally the same, we weren’t connected. That shows what we need to improve. There are things to do in the future, obviously, and today’s game is the end of this season, but it’s not the start of the next one.
No good feeling?
Obviously, it’s not the best feeling to feel that way, particularly in terms of the match and the way we started. We’re obviously wondering what we can do better.
Did Mbappé/Vinicius not work today?
No, it didn’t work. We’ll analyze that, but I don’t necessarily have any other comments to make.
