For Carlo Ancelotti, the new format of the Champions League does not change much. The Real Madrid coach still feels his team is well placed to lift the trophy.
The group stage is over. Starting Tuesday, the new format of the Champions League will debut with a regular season at first. Each team will have to play eight games and will be in the same general classification that will determine the participants in the knockout phase. But regardless of the means of qualification, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti does not see any change among the competition favorites.
” Favorite teams? I think they are always the samereplied the Italian. It's true that the format changes a little bit but I think the favourite teams are always the same, including Real Madrid and others. When a competition starts, you can be favourite for some people just because you won the previous year. But it's another Champions League, it will be a different story. I hope we can go all the way like last season. “In passing, the former Paris Saint-Germain coach took care to add that this format, with more matches on the schedule, only harmed the health of the players.
Ancelotti's rant
” The problem is not in our hands. The problem is the calendar which is too demanding. Now there is a new competition, we do not know how it will go, it can be more entertaining than last season. But for the moment, the fact is that we have two more games in this competition. If the governing bodies do not start to think that the players are getting injured because they play too much, we have a problem. What I ask is that they stop to think about reducing the number of games to have more attractive competitions. ” demanded Carlo Ancelotti.
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