Xabi Alonso has already told Vinícius, warning against Juventus: 'You can't…'

Real Madrid are rushing to prepare for the round of 16 match against Juventus of Turin. That match at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami has several aspects that Xabi Alonso hasn't lost sight of during training, working hard with his footballers to improve them.

One of the most striking is led by Vinícius Jr. The verdeamarelo footballer seems to have found his way back to reconnect with his best version after his performance against RB Salzburg. In addition to insisting on that, Xabi Alonso has also delivered an important message to the merengue number "7" in the days leading up to the clash against the bianconera sports discipline.

"You can't get a yellow card in the match," Xabi Alonso states. The Tolosa coach reminds his player that, given the warning received in the World Cup debut, he is extremely close to suspension. The regulations implemented by FIFA for the Club World Cup are very clear in this regard.

Therefore, any player who receives two yellow cards during the group stage, round of 16, and quarterfinals will be left out of the next match his team plays. The same applies to red cards, something that Raúl Asencio has already experienced firsthand. The possible Vinícius sanction would come at the worst possible moment.

It is an unfinished task

Not only because he would have to play the rest of the match against Juventus of Turin measuring some actions, letting go of part of the intensity that Xabi Alonso always asks for. Also because he would necessarily miss some hypothetical quarterfinals against Borussia Dortmund or Rayados de Monterrey.

Nobody at Real Madrid wants to face that important match in the Club World Cup without one of the most decisive players in the European football elite in recent years. That's why Xabi Alonso emphasizes one of the few issues that the São Gonçalo striker still needs to finish working on to finally focus entirely on soccer.

That is the main goal of the coaching staff led by Xabi Alonso. The top priority is to find the ideal position for the verdeamarelo player on the field, an aspect in which significant progress has been made in the Club World Cup. But attention must also be paid to the disciplinary issue, which has caused more than one unwanted absence from the field in previous seasons.

Therefore, Xabi Alonso makes it clear to Vinícius that he must keep fully focused on the development of the match. Especially when he is so close to missing a vital match in the evolution of the current sports project... The form level of his competitors for a spot in the starting forward line has proved to be quite high.