“What is happening in Madrid? » : the Spanish press is worried, the day after Real Madrid’s defeat in Lille (1-0), this Wednesday, October 2 in the Champions League. For the Madrid media As the questions focus more on the game offered by Carlo Ancelotti’s men since the start of the season than on the defeat itself, the first since January 2024. “Nothing works like before”headlines journalist Manu de Juan.
For his part, his sulphurous colleague Tomas Roncero comments “ a Madrid without joy »who plays with “a civil servant’s spirit” to illustrate the lack of temperament of the Madrilenians, authors of“a desperate slowness”of a game “predictable” and a lack of “biting in duels”.
“An obvious excess of confidence”
At the heart of a “dark night” where the three Spanish clubs involved in the evening lost (Girona to Feyenoord (3-2) and Atlético de Madrid to Benfica (4-0)), Mark observed a “very bad shock” from the White House in the North, with a Madrid game “worrying”.
For its journalist José Vicente Hernaez, the most worrying thing is not so much the defeat but the manner. In his post, he targets the Merengue coach in particular: “Ancelotti does not solve Madrid’s playing problems. He has not yet convinced by playing with three attackers, nor with four midfielders yesterday. »
For his colleague Carlos Capio, Real were guilty of“obvious overconfidence” in Lille yesterday, explaining that “these 36 matches in a row without defeat end up inducing you into a state of excessive confidence in your own strength which dangerously leads to relaxation”.
Catalan media Sports World depicts him as “white meltdown” Carlo Ancelotti players, “disastrous again” adding: “An indolent and flat Madrid confirmed doubts about its game and conceded its first knockout of the season against a modest opponent”.
The Barcelona-based newspaper did not go out of its way to analyze the performance of the Madrilenians last night, describing an Eduardo Camavinga ” clumsy “causing the penalty converted by Jonathan David with one hand in his area and a Jude Bellingham ” desperate “ to creation, loser “his nerves” et “many balloons”.
