The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup starts. We will analyze the personnel composition and tactical play of each team, and at the same time predict the qualifying situation of each group. Today, let’s talk about the H Group where Real Madrid, Pachuca, Riyadh Crescent and Salzburg Red Bull are located.

Real Madrid

League: La Liga

League Ranking: Second place

Steam stars: Mbappe, Vinicius, Bellingham

Team strength introduction: The head coach is the leader among the "trendy" young coaches. There are two popular candidates from the Golden Ball Awards of the previous year and the European Golden Boot winner of this year. The team's value is as high as 1.33 billion euros. Real Madrid stands out in Group H.

Different from Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and Chelsea who traveled through the ocean with a relaxed attitude, Real Madrid will see participating in the Club World Cup as a journey of redemption. In the 2024/25 season, the Galaxy Battleships made multiple attacks but achieved nothing. They lost 13 games in various competitions and lost three championships in four national derbys. What is even more heartbreaking than the bad record is that this former champion team has lost its style, young players have failed to fill the gap left by the "Celebration Midfielder", and the scarred defense line is unable to withstand the pressure from the backflow.

Florentino opened the checkbook for Xavi Alonso, and Real Madrid's defense line quickly completed the upgrade.

After Xavi Alonso took office, Florentino quickly opened the check book. Real Madrid first solved the disease of scabies in terms of signings. Arnold and Heisen came to the market one after another (including Alvaro Fernandez), and then went deeper into the texture. Mastantono and Subimedi were on the way to report. For a team that has just experienced an unbearable season and vowed to reorganize the old mountains and rivers, the high-standard training opportunities provided by the Club World Cup are precious. The performance of Mbappe, Vinicius and Bellingham on the North American journey will directly affect Real Madrid's forward upgrade plan.

Real Madrid's internal problems are very complicated. Xavi Alonso seems to be preparing to force the three central defender system, but instead use the 4-3-3 formation to complete the soft landing.

When the Fire-On rescue of Leverkusen, Xavi Alonso quickly completed the integration of tactical resources, reversed the team's decline at the competitive level, won the trust of the locker room, and embarked on a magical journey. It is unusual to coach Real Madrid. Considering that the current personnel are not familiar with the three-center-back system, Xavi Alonso did not forcibly lay out his personal will (three-center-back formation) in training, but planned to rely on Ancelotti's "legacy" (433 formation) to complete a soft landing. Although this move cannot solve the defensive problem that has plagued the team for a long time, it can guarantee the output on the offensive end. It is not difficult for them to win the first place in the group.

Pachuca

League: Mexican League

League Ranking: No. 8 in the Autumn League

Stars in the Team: Longdong, Kafraar

Team Strength Introduction: Although he won the 2024 Central and North America and the Caribbean Champions League, Pachuca performed very poorly in the autumn league not long ago. This veteran team that has won 14 important event championships in the past 20 years has only achieved 8th place. However, as the group is in a "one super and many strong" situation, Pachuca is confident that she will complete the promotion task as the second place in the group.

In the Intercontinental Cup final half a year ago, Pachuca had a fight with Real Madrid.

In order to prepare for this Club World Cup, Pachuca fired Uruguayan famous coach Guillermo Almada who has coached the team for three years, and the new coach Jaime Lozano has taken office less than a month. In the process of winning the Champions League in Central and North America and the Caribbean, Pachuca showed the ability to control the game with high intensity pressing and confrontation. Almada had high requirements for the players' running ability, and young players led by Elias Montel and Alan Bautista stood out. From Pachuca's performance in recent training and warm-up matches, Jaime Lozano is more inclined to "energy conservation and emission reduction", that is, to formulate a relatively conservative tactical approach around 39-year-old veteran Long Dong.

39-year-old Long Dong Yu Yongkejia.

Behind Longdong, the midfield is Pachuca's advantageous link. Idrissi, who have played for Feyenoord, Ajax, Cadiz and Sevilla, can bring endless inspiration, and Elias Montel and Alan Bautista hope to win invitations from European teams through their outstanding performances in the Club World Cup. In the InterContinental Cup final several months ago, Pachuca had a fight with Real Madrid. Kavlar's performance when he provoked Vinicius before the game was impressive. The former Celta star has now become a substitute, and his role as captain is gradually fading, and Longdong looks more like the leader of this team.

Riyadh Crescent

League: Saudi United

League Ranking: Second place

Team stars: Mitrovic, Milinkovic, Ruben Neves

Team strength introduction: Signing Inzaghi Jr. before the start of the Club World Cup, Riyadh Crescent has set the qualifying group as the lowest goal of this trip to North America. Under great pressure, Inzaghi was hasty to take office, but he was not unfamiliar with the atmosphere of his new boss. Here are his old subordinate Milinkovic in Lazio, and Kulibali, who had dealt with Serie A. It is not difficult for him to quickly control the locker room and ensure that the tactics are implemented.

During the period of Joe Jesus-Jesus's coaching, Riyadh Crescent became a team with strong offense and weak defense. The frontcourt consists of Mitrovic, Davasari and Leonardo are invincible. Behind them, the second wave of attacks led by Milinkovic and Malcolm often makes the opponent unable to defend.. When Cancelo and Renan Lodi also participate in the offense, the central defender combination of Culibali and Ali Brech (or Hassan Tambatti) will appear isolated and relying on Ruben Neves alone to resist the opponent's impact on the Crescent Line.

Shortly after Jerry Inzag took office, Riyadh Crescent began to seek loan from his rival Jeddah nationals on Kante, which is a signal that the Italians want to strengthen the team's defense. Before the arrival of powerful new players, Inzaghi will first start by changing the formation structure and defensive organizational model to improve Riyadh Crescent's defensive ability. When the team's formation goes from a four-back to a three-center-back/five-back, Renan Lodi, Cancelo and Ruben Neves' advantages will be easier to play, and Culibaly's pressure will be reduced a lot.

Riyadh Crescent has personnel reserves to support the three central defender/five guard formation. Inzaghi's tactics can allow Milinkovic, Mitrovic, Ruben Neves, Cancelo and Renan Lodi to enter the "comfort zone".

The team's net worth reached 190 million euros, not only far surpassing Pachuca (48.4 million euros), but also surpassing Red Bull Salzburg (170 million euros). Riyadh Crescent is very likely to join forces with Real Madrid to qualify. The schedule of Group H is also beneficial to them - if they can use the "warm-up" of the first game with the Galaxy Battleship to debug their state to a high point, Riyadh Crescent can calmly deal with the "heavy metal flow" impact from Red Bull Salzburg. When the final battle against Pachuca, the opponent may have lost his fighting spirit because he was eliminated early.

Salzburg Red Bull

League: Olympic Super League

League Ranking: Second place

Team stars: Dogles, Gloch

Team strength introduction: After completing the 10 consecutive Olympic Super League championships with a record set, Salzburg has stopped to refresh history in the past two seasons. Star players such as Aronson, Adeyemi, Rasmus Christensen, Sesco, Okafor, Sewald, Sucic and Pavlovic were sold successively. Red Bull Salzburg was seriously injured and the limelight in the league was completely snatched by Graz Storm. Today, Thomas Lech lacks star players, and high-quality teamwork is essential to win in the competition with Pachuca and Riyadh Crescent. After Sesco left the team, Red Bull Salzburg was suppressed by the Graz Storm for two consecutive seasons, and his record in the Champions League was also very bad.

As a well-known European star transfer station, Red Bull Salzburg has attracted talents through its global scouting system for many years and "packaged" players with its open and radical tactical play. There are few players over 30 under Lecci's command. The 33-year-old substitute forward Onycivo has become a marginal role in the team. The 34-year-old "second goal" Brasvic still has stable playing time. Reiner (32 years old), who just transferred from Borussia Mönchengladbach, may become the stabilizer in the main lineup.

Dogles and Gloch will take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the Club World Cup to recommend themselves to the five major league teams.

Among the new generation of talents trained by Red Bull Salzburg, Dogles and Gloch are two with relatively outstanding personal abilities, and the two players have received the attention of many Premier League teams. Lech often puts the two behind the front line at the same time, using their breakthrough ability to cause damage to their opponents. In the regular season of the Champions League this season, Red Bull Salzburg only won one victory, and suffered another three losses in the Olympic Super League championship group battle. This young team lacks the ability to withstand pressure and is likely to complete the Club World Cup with the record at the bottom of Group H.