{"id":400853,"date":"2026-01-10T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400853\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:51:08","slug":"real-madrid-boss-xabi-alonso-to-assess-the-risk-on-kylian-mbappes-fitness-ahead-of-supercopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400853\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid boss Xabi Alonso to ‘assess the risk’ on Kylian Mbappe’s fitness ahead of Supercopa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xabi Alonso said Real Madrid<\/a> will “assess the risk” of playing Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> in Sunday’s Supercopa final with Barcelona<\/a>, with the star forward racing to recover from a knee sprain.<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 flew out to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia<\/a> to join his teammates on Friday having stayed behind to continue his recovery in Madrid, missed Thursday’s 2-1 semifinal derby win over Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

The France<\/a> international has been absent for Real’s first two games of 2026, with an injury which had previously troubled him for some weeks, despite scoring 29 goals in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n

“He’s much better,” Alonso said in a news conference on Saturday. “The idea was that it was going to be very tight [for Mbapp\u00e9] to play against Atl\u00e9tico, so we decided not to rush him.<\/p>\n

“But if we got to the final, depending on how he felt, he would come. When he trains today, we’ll have all the information we need to assess it, and see if he’s ready to start, or play a bit less.”<\/p>\n

Alonso was asked whether it would be worth the risk of giving Mbapp\u00e9 a pain-killing injection to take part in Sunday’s final, with the first trophy of the Spanish season on the line.<\/p>\n

“We have to assess the risk,” Alonso said. “We know what’s at stake, and take responsibility for our decisions. We’re not kamikazes… It’s a controlled risk.”<\/p>\n

Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 in the first Cl\u00e1sico of the season in October, having lost all four meetings in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

They completed Thursday’s semifinal with a makeshift defence, after centre-backs Antonio R\u00fcdiger<\/a> and Ra\u00fal Asencio<\/a> both had to be substituted with discomfort.<\/p>\n

“[The defence] are better,” Alonso said. “We’ll train this afternoon and make a decision. We’re seeing some instability in defense. Some players are putting in an extra effort. But we’re dealing with it.”<\/p>\n

– Hansi Flick: Focus is Real Madrid not just Kylian Mbappe in Supercopa<\/a><\/p>\n

– Vin\u00edcius Jr. taunts Diego Simeone after Real Madrid, Atl\u00e9tico clash<\/a><\/p>\n

– Laurens’ weekend preview: A Supercopa Clasico; Inter vs. Napoli; Istanbul derby, more<\/a><\/p>\n

Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a> has again been in the spotlight this week after clashing with Atletico coach Diego Simeone during Thursday’s game.<\/p>\n

The Brazil<\/a> international has now gone 16 matches without scoring.<\/p>\n

“Every player is different,” Alonso said, when asked about how he’s managing the forward. “You have to be intelligent. Vini is emotional. You have to know how to be there for him. His teammates and the coaching staff make sure he understands. It’s a matter of timing. He’ll be back to his best, and he will be decisive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso said Real Madrid will “assess the risk” of playing Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 in Sunday’s Supercopa final with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-400853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}