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Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso has spoken positively of his reunion with old side Liverpool. The Basque coach did return with Bayer Leverkusen last season, but this time will bring with him Trent Alexander-Arnold, who will face his boyhood club for the first time.
Understandably, it was a key topic of conversation in their pre-match press conference. Dean Huijsen did tell the media that they had overblown Vinicius Junior’s outburst during El Clasico, while Alonso reiterated that he felt the issue had been resolved. On this game, Alonso called it a classic of the genre in Europe.
“On the one hand, it’s a classic of European football, both historically and in the present. It’s a…