Sabre wrote:Bad Bob wrote:Sabre wrote:The BBC, Cuatro, and other national medias make a filter to keep the bandwidth under control. That's why Andy G and me are able to watch that link and probably foreigners won't.
Xabi Alonso is getting a lot of praise from Madrid press, which is as if the ITV or SSN were giving credit to Liverpool players rathern than to the Mancs
Any chance Alonso will start ahead of Senna this weekend Sabre? (I assume he'll never start ahead of Xavi Hernandez.)
The media are pressing so that happens as everyone is praising Xabi.
If Arangones' words are true and yesterday was a chance to prove their worth Aragones would choose Xabi.
But my hunch is that he won't start and will enter the game in the second half.
P.S. Unless Aragones changes the system to a double holding mid, Alonso is not direct competitor for Xavi. Aragones' have played that system against strong teams (England away friendly IIRC, Italy at home recently) so it may be possible.
P.S. Even Rafa yells for Xabi Alonso playing. I mean Rafa Nadal who writes a football blog these days
http://www.elmundo.es/eurocop....54.html
In Spain everyone talks about football.
Nice to hear that the media are backing Xabi, mate. Hopefully he'll play and play well.
