Real Madrid show fight but another setback leaves Xabi Alonso’s future on knife-edge

The hosts battled against Manchester City but a second successive home defeat pushes manager towards exit.

Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso speaks with Jude Bellingham from the touchline. Pic: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

On the night they were going to sack him, Xabi Alonso watched his team rise against their fate and perhaps his, but fall again. 

He listened to the fans whistle and the final whistle, embraced the man who had been his mentor and then, defeated for the second time in four days here, disappeared straight down the Bernabéu tunnel without looking back.