It is a Real Madrid stunned since Sunday which will approach the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey against Celta Vigo scheduled for tomorrow evening (9:30 p.m.) at the Santiago Bernabéu. Swept by FC Barcelona (2-5) in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, the reigning European champion thought he was doing better in recent weeks. But this new humiliation, just a few months after the first in the championship (0-4), could well revive bad memories and undermine the dynamics of the Merengue.
Ancelotti wants to forget and salutes Mbappé’s great form!
Present at a press conference this Wednesday, Carlo Ancelotti returned to this slap with the ambition to quickly forget: “It’s an important opportunity to forget the bad match played on Sunday, which hurt us a lot but which didn’t ruin us. We want to react and I hope it goes well, that the reaction is strong after the bad match the other day. It’s a step backwards, but we must move forward. There remains a season where we are well positioned in all competitions. Obviously it was a bad match, we evaluated it and looked for the solution. The lack of commitment is collective, it is not an individual commitment. The assessment of the match was a poor defensive plan across the board. Nothing more to add. It’s a team that has youth, energy, commitment, which doesn’t always show it, but I trust this team. It’s been a month since they won the Intercontinental Club Cup, 6 months ago the Champions League… and now we compete in all competitions. Sometimes you have to pay the bill… and in the match the other day we paid it, an expensive bill but it was a match. We will fight to the end as always. I must clarify one thing, this is a press conference and not a debate. We have already done it with our players and the technical staff. Doing it here doesn’t seem the most appropriate. The good thing about football is that after a bad match, a defeat like that, there is an opportunity to do well, which is tomorrow, and that gives you the opportunity to concentrate a lot on what you should do and not about the wrong thing you did.”
He then commented on the form of Kylian Mbappé: “I think he needed time to adapt to the team and get back to his best physical version. Now he is in a very good moment and the team must take advantage of it” he confided before looking into the question of the Mercato: “The idea has not changed. We are talking with the club to make the team more competitive, but talking here about what I am talking about with the club does not seem right to me” he declared before concluding on the need for reinforcements: “I won’t answer you.”
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To summarize
Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of Real Madrid, returned to the huge slap suffered against FC Barcelona in the final of the Spanish Super Cup on Sunday evening (2-5). It is a Real Madrid stunned since Sunday which will approach the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey against Celta Vigo scheduled for tomorrow evening (9:30 p.m.) at the Santiago Bernabéu.
