Xabi Alonso has the complete backing of Jude Bellingham amid rising hypothesis the Actual Madrid manger could possibly be at risk of shedding his job after defeat in opposition to Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League.
Los Blancos suffered a second-straight defeat on the Bernabeu as they had been crushed 2-1 by Manchester Metropolis simply three days after shedding to Celta Vigo in LaLiga.
Rodrygo ended his 32-game aim drought however a comeback earlier than the break courtesy of Nico O’Reilly and an Erling Haaland penalty turned the tie in Metropolis’s favour as Actual’s dismal run was prolonged to simply two wins from their final eight matches in all competitions.
Their latest kind has piled additional strain on Alonso, who in November was the topic of rumours of a breakdown in his relationship with star Vinicius Junior.
Actual are presently seventh within the 36-team desk and nonetheless heading in the right direction to complete within the computerized qualificartion locations.
Nonetheless, they path Barcelona by 4 factors in LaLiga and have received simply as soon as in 5 Spanish top-flight matches.
However Bellingham believes Actual have all of the instruments at their disposal to reignite their season.
When requested the place his facet have gone mistaken over the previous couple of weeks, the 22-year-old informed TNT Sports activities: “It’s most likely various issues. We’re nonetheless making an attempt to work it out throughout the altering room, no matter what goes on exterior. That type of noise is not going to be useful.
“It’s about us making an attempt to determine it out contained in the dressing room. I feel one of many issues that’s most likely fairly apparent is how we’re managing video games on the minute. Sure factors the place we have now to endure, it seems like we at all times concede and it places us on the again foot and perhaps makes us play in a means that we don’t wish to.
“We have now every thing we have to flip it round. I’ve full religion this season isn’t over simply because we’ve been on a nasty run of kind. As gamers, it kills us and we’re going to strive every thing to show it round.”
Amid the elevated warmth on Alonso, the England midfielder insisted the group was “100 per cent” behind the previous Actual participant, including: “The supervisor has been nice. I’ve personally bought an incredible relationship with him. Loads of the lads do as effectively.
“After the primary few video games the place we drew we had some nice conversations internally the place it felt like we had been going to be on the again facet of that dangerous kind. The final couple of video games we’ve let ourselves down.
“Nobody is downing instruments, nobody is complaining. We’ll should take a little bit of the s**t on the chin however we’ll should preserve preventing and bouncing ahead.”
