Alonso: Protests over Miami LaLiga game 'positive'

Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso backed subordinate protests implicit LaLiga playing a regular-season crippled successful Miami connected Saturday, describing the determination arsenic "positive."

Barcelona's crippled astatine Villarreal is acceptable to beryllium played astatine Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami, Florida connected Dec. 20, with tickets owed to spell connected merchantability adjacent week.

On Friday, successful the archetypal LaLiga crippled of the play -- Real Oviedo vs. Espanyol -- the two teams paused for the archetypal 15 seconds, successful a protestation that players' national AFE said was aimed astatine the league's "lack of transparency, dialog and coherence" successful staging the Miami game.

The planetary tv provender of the lucifer did not amusement the protest, with an exterior changeable of the stadium being displayed instead.

"We're against the [Miami] game, due to the fact that we judge it influences the competition," Alonso said successful a quality league connected Saturday. "There isn't unanimity among each the participating clubs [in the league]. We haven't been consulted.

"The protests are positive, due to the fact that it's the feeling of galore clubs. [The Miami game] has been done unilaterally, and that's what we're against. If there's unanimity, it tin happen, but that isn't the case."

In Saturday's aboriginal game, Sevilla vs. Mallorca, the players' protestation was concisely shown connected surface aft kick-off, earlier cameras chopped to the Sevilla bench.

In a connection connected Friday, AFE said captains of the 20 top-flight LaLiga teams were successful favour of the protestation -- which would instrumentality spot astatine the commencement of each this weekend's games -- though the national said Barcelona and Villarreal players had not been asked to instrumentality part.

Alonso refused to accidental whether helium would enactment further enactment from players, including a imaginable strike. "My reply is the same, and our presumption is the same," helium said. "The decisions that request to beryllium taken volition astir apt beryllium taken by others."

Madrid sojourn Getafe connected Sunday, and began the play 2 points wide of rivals Barcelona, who big Girona connected Saturday.

Alonso dismissed wounded concerns astir Kylian Mbappé, who returned to Madrid aboriginal from planetary work this week with an ankle knock.

"His ankle is fine," Alonso said. "He's successful the squad, and could start."

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