Xabi Alonso hints at Real Madrid changes and Kylian Mbappe decision for Liverpool

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Real Madrid will take on Valencia this weekend in La Liga, before traveling to Liverpool for the Champions League clash at Anfield — with Xabi Alonso hinting his priority for now is domestically. "If we lose that concentration even a little, we'll drop points, and we don't want that to happen," Alonso said in a press conference today.

Alonso will take his Real Madrid team to Liverpool next week (Image: Dennis Agyeman/Europa Press via Getty Images) "In the Champions League, you can drop points and then recover them. Valencia won at the Bernabeu last year, so we can't relax.

We have to be alert because sometimes you can let your guard down after a big win." French superstar Kylian Mbappe has played a high volume of minutes this season — the most in the Real Madrid squad — and Alonso says he will have to manage the game time of some key men. With Kylian, it's been like that so far, but we'll see what the future holds." Real Madrid has some wriggle room in the Champions League having won all three games in Europe so far this season, overcoming Marseille, Kairat Almaty and Juventus.