"I always say that you have to make the wine with the grapes you have. If you want to make champagne but you don't have champagne grapes, you're not going to make champagne... When you arrive at a new place you have to know where you are going to work."
"With [former boss Carlo] Ancelotti they didn't press either. It's one thing to go back and place yourself in an area where they help the team, but do you really want them to press? They don't have that ability, they can't do it."
"We are talking about players who when they have the ball they hurt the opposition, and when the team does not have it they must come back, but not to put pressure on. Nowadays it seems that everything consists of pressing. Then there are individual cases in which a player if he does not press, okay, he does not press, but when we have the ball he has to do something good, different, and that is when you have to demand things from him. If he doesn't work 100% without the ball, let him do it at 70%"
Real Madrid beat Real Betis 5-1 but remain unstable at the Bernabeu. Xabi Alonso's high-press, high-energy system has struggled to take hold and appears mismatched to many squad players. Madrid sit second in La Liga, four points behind Barcelona at the domestic season midpoint. Several players lack the habit or ability to press consistently; they are effective when in possession but generally do not apply off-ball pressure. The recommended adjustment is to tailor tactics to the players available rather than rigidly imposing a high-press philosophy.
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