Alejandro Moreno

These players now are yours.

And so while you may think, okay, we're gonna rest some players.

Yeah, rest them, but take them on the trip.

Put him on the bench, because this is the bench that was available to Real Madrid today.

So when the game was getting out of control and you need some help, you're not turning to Manuel, Angel, Sergio Mestre, Joan Martinez, who?

Cesar Palacio.

What?

Right?

So that you have options.

But most of all is the message that you're sending to the players.

You just lost a final in the Supercopa de España.

And I understand that you want to give a rest to certain players.

Give them the rest, but have them there.

You need unity.

You need this team to be together, not some guys in Madrid and other guys over here.

If you're looking for unity, that doesn't happen if those guys are over there and these guys are over here trying to get a result at Albacete.

You want to bring the group together, and you want to have options on the bench just in case, just in case things get complicated, which they have had a tendency to be so for Real Madrid this whole season, including the last round against Talavera, which he referenced.

If he knew this was gonna be tricky, if he knew this was gonna be difficult, then you need whatever squad you had available, you need that full squad ready for you just in case things got, as he thought they would, complicated and tricky.

Do you agree with Ali?

You only have, as we all know, one chance to make the first impression.