Before being asked at the Press conference prior to the Champions League match against Milan, Carlo Ancelotti He spoke: «It has been a week since the tragedy in Valencia happened. We are sad and very close to all the affected towns. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. In this sense, I want you to understand that talking about football right now is complicated, just like playing,” said the Italian coach, serious and sad. And he continued: «We are part of this country and all this affects a lot. Out of respect for you and all those who are suffering, I will try to make a press conference as simple as possiblebecause I don’t feel like talking about football. The match against Milan is a special match and I would like to talk a lot about it, but out of respect I will try to talk as little as possible.
It is a special match because, despite the fact that Carlo Ancelotti He has lived a lot in the world of football, he has traveled and coached great teams in the best European Leagues, Milan and Real Madrid are his heart teams. In the first one he became a footballer (and he was in Sacchi’s Milan that crushed Real Madrid with a 5-0 and many offsides. The one that forever melted the Quinta de El Buitre) and in the second, at Real Madrid, he has reached his maximum ceiling as a coach.
It is the Real Madrid’s first game after DANA and at the Santiago Bernabéu a heartfelt tribute has been prepared: “A minute of silence will be observed tonight. On one side the flag of the Valencian community will be displayed. The players will come out with t-shirts that say: We are all Valencia – Siamo tutti Valencia. They will wear black armbands,” said journalist Arancha Rodríguez.
But, in addition, it is a special match for the white team because it comes after one of the most difficult sporting moments for the white club during this season. Difficult and unexpected.
They lost the LaLiga Clásico against Barcelona and two days later they saw how the votes of «France Football» they left Vinicius without Ballon d’Or, despite the fact that almost everyone had it. They were two somewhat surprising blows and they have restored the current champion of the competition this season.
This match against the Italian team and the next Saturday against Osasuna in LaLigThey have to mark the new path for Carlo Ancelotti’s team after a more irregular start in the game than in the results, until the Clásico arrived. Real Madrid was overcoming its football problems and doubts about how to play with good results, saving the games. However, the second half of the match against Barcelona, which already seems so far away, does not allow us to deceive ourselves.
He Carlo Ancelotti’s Madrid He needs a reaction that is consistent over several games and nothing like two games in a row at the Bernabéu to find himself. Ancelotti has had time to work and perhaps to take a look at what he wants from the team and how to get the most out of his players.
The group needs to find the best Mbappéfully exploit its virtues, which until now have gone unnoticed. The Frenchman is aware that in this first stretch of the season, although his goal tally is not bad, he has not offered everything he should offer to the Bernabéu according to his status.
The second solution that the Italian coach has to find is to make the midfield effective and command the games. Without Mbappé one hundred percent, Ancelotti has not made any changes at the top; However, he has gone around the core area in search of the combination of players that will give him the best results. If Rodrygo does not play, his ideal midfield is the one formed by Bellingham, Tchouaméni, Valverde and Camavinga, but it doesn’t work as it should. The Englishman is isolated from the game and loses all his quality and his arrival in the area, while Tchouaméni He is being, along with Mbappé, one of the most discussed because he is not differential for the team, neither in attack nor in defense.
Ancelotti He is not one to make sudden decisions because the hierarchy and the idea that, in the end, it is the players with the most reputation who are going to solve the long season, always prevail, but the Italian also knows that, although it is early, it has There has come a key point in the course in which things cannot continue as they were before this break.
