Real Madrid – Barça: Mbappé’s match, Ancelotti’s only satisfaction

Real Madrid had revenge to take! After the slap received in the Clasico at home and the 4-0 defeat in the league, Real Madrid wanted to redeem themselves during the Spanish Super Cup final against Barça. A shock contested in Saudi Arabia as has now been the case for several seasons. After this great display, Carlo Ancelotti, the White House coach, took the floor to review his team’s performance. And he did not want to remember anything from this meeting apart from the performance of Kylian Mbappé.

Ancelotti spares Mbappé

Indeed, the Italian was keen to highlight the meeting with the Frenchman: “I don’t remember anything positive apart from Mbappé’s match. He had a very good match and scored a goal. You have to forget the rest to move forward. We defended poorly with high pressing and low pressing. At halftime we talked about trying to play football. You can lose, but not like in the first half. We have to look at reality, they scored goals very easily and we couldn’t compete on a collective or individual level because we lost a lot of duels, but that’s football. We are sad and disappointed, we are sad for our fans, but we have to look forward because there is another challenge ahead of us. We need to get the momentum back. I don’t want to name anyone. I’m talking about the team and we didn’t defend well in the middle and we weren’t compact. We need to defend better.”

Stunned, the Madrid coach nevertheless dreamed of a comeback after Wojciech Szczęsny’s red card: “I thought we might come back when Szczesny was sent off. The match was not good from the first minute. When we were one more, we were unable to find solutions. I’m sad about the whole match. I’ve already said it, we had to defend well and we defended poorly. They defended better than us.“