{"id":4090,"date":"2025-07-12T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4090\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:09:04","slug":"toni-kroos-gives-his-tactical-analysis-on-real-madrids-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4090\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Kroos Gives His Tactical Analysis On Real Madrid\u2019s Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"IA5Smd\">Toni Kroos may have hung up his boots after a legendary career (and has been sorely missed in the process), but he remains engaged with the evolution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.managingmadrid.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a>. Speaking on the latest episode of Einfach mal Luppen, the podcast he co-hosts with his brother Felix Kroos, the German offered detailed thoughts on where the club needs to improve, his belief in Xabi Alonso, and his admiration for Arda G\u00fcler.<\/p>\n<p>What Real Madrid Is Missing<\/p>\n<p id=\"Kz3VTn\">\u201cTo get back to the top, the most important thing in my opinion is focus, a system, and how that new system would work and be implemented. And from that, you can measure which player is missing, depending on the type of football you want to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Disorganization and Its Ripple Effects<\/p>\n<p id=\"5JHo0a\">\u201cIt helps the team a lot to have the feeling that you\u2019re defending together. You have more energy when you win the ball back. Otherwise, you\u2019re constantly running in behind, or you feel like you can\u2019t press because they\u2019re always beating you, and you also feel like you can\u2019t retreat because you\u2019re not used to it. And that\u2019s where we suffered the most last season, and that\u2019s why our play on the ball also looked so poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belief in Xabi Alonso<\/p>\n<p id=\"jcDNIz\">\u201cThat\u2019s what I trust Xabi to do, that he will convey a clear idea. It\u2019s all about dominance. And if they defend better, they\u2019ll achieve it on the other end too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arda G\u00fcler\u2019s Rise<\/p>\n<p id=\"n1Ewmb\">Finally, Kroos praised Arda G\u00fcler \u2014 a player who has impressed despite limited opportunities.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XXxPOr\">\u201cHe brings a lot of football to the game, let\u2019s say. He was already ready football-wise last season, but he\u2019s also taken a step forward physically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"7v3Ach\">Kroos advocated for G\u00fcler\u2019s inclusion in the team, even if he occasionally struggles defensively:<\/p>\n<p id=\"CMlIlx\">\u201cIf you have a player like that, who can play like a number ten between the lines, then I\u2019m in favor of turning a blind eye if he loses a duel. The important thing is that he has his task clearly defined and participates in the defensive effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toni Kroos may have hung up his boots after a legendary career (and has been sorely missed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4687,4689,424,4685,2848,4688,4684,829,824,828,2105,823,419,403,99,4686,4683],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-analysis","tag-formations-and-tactics","tag-front-page","tag-gives","tag-his","tag-issues","tag-kroos","tag-latest-news","tag-madrid","tag-managing","tag-on","tag-real","tag-s","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tactical","tag-toni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}