It was a big slap that Real Madrid suffered this Wednesday evening on Liverpool's pitch. More than the final score against a potential rival for victory in the Champions League (0-2), it is more generally the Merengue content and the individual performances which are becoming more and more worrying. Kylian Mbappé on the front line, who should take advantage of Vinicius' absence to finally flourish in his preferred left lane with a benchmark match. But who offered quite the opposite with an ordinary match and a missed penalty which weighs very heavily in the scenario of the match.
However, Carlo Ancelotti surprised in his post-match. Already with a surprisingly positive speech on the performance of its players. “I liked the team, we played well against the toughest rival in Europe. The plan was good. We played how we wanted to play. We played well in the first half. We defended well as a team. The transitions were good. But we made the wrong decisions on the last gesture,” the Madrid technician simply regretted after the match.
Ancelotti gives… players a day off
But the real surprise after the match came from Carlo Ancelotti's decision to give his players a day off today. Already surprising in view of the defeat which necessarily requires individual and collective adjustments, this decision is all the more so since Real Madrid is playing again this weekend, with a La Liga match against Getafe (Sunday at 4:15 p.m.). A decision which did not fail to provoke a reaction on social networks, but also to provoke a lively debate on the Spanish talk show El Chiringuito later in the evening…
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To summarize
Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach, announced a surprising decision to his locker room after Liverpool's big disappointment. In fact, the Italian coach simply gave… a day of rest to his players.
