The competition for the right back at Real Madrid: Dumfries and Trent

The first stages of Real Madrid's preseason have been used to test pieces, including several of the newcomers. One of the most watched has been Denzel Dumfries, whose incorporation as 'covered' for 20 million from Inter initially suggested that he was arriving to cover Trent's back. The Dutchman seemed like the reinforcement designed for the rotation, the squire who would relieve the Englishman of minutes throughout a demanding season. Because Trent was called to be one of the leaders from behind for Mourinho, after a bittersweet first campaign in white. However, the distribution of minutes in the first three friendlies has left him in a questionable position. Denzel's competence is no small feat. Given the numerous losses from the World Cup, his coach has had to rearrange himself in his own way, and in this reinvention the right back has become a position with two full-fledged suitors. The trials attest to this. Against Fiorentina, Trent started as a winger and Dumfries ahead, as a winger; The Englishman completed the duel and the Dutchman retired in the 75th minute. In the second, against Ferencváros, Mou reversed the roles: Dumfries starting and Trent entering the second half. And in the third, against Deportivo, he repeated the formula of the starting Dutchman, this time as a winger, with Trent reappearing after the break as a full-back, although on this occasion it was the former Inter player who already played the full 90 minutes. Dumfries' versatility has given him a certain advantage at the start. Until Brahim's arrival, Mourinho barely had Yáñez, from the reserve team, to cover the right winger, so the Dutchman has acted as a valuable wild card in that area. He also responds to the prototype of a footballer that the Portuguese turns into a warrior, and this despite the fact that he has not yet displayed his best qualities in this preseason. Trent, on the other hand, has been seen as especially fine, loose and eager to claim stripes. Mbappé's substitute, in the same Something similar is drawn above, in the '9' position, where the distribution of minutes in the last two games has been almost equal, although with a slight advantage for Endrick over Espí. The Brazilian, destined to compete with everything against him in the white house, has started in all three friendlies, an insistence that speaks both of his determination and of the doubts that Mou must clear up to prevent his plan from changing in January.