Ancelotti: “We have to be worried”

Carlo Ancelotti did not add any heat to the tough defeat that Real Madrid suffered this Tuesday against Milan in the fourth matchday of the Champions League. «We have to be worried, the team is not giving a good version. The team is not compact, we have to be more compact, more organized, we have conceded many goals because we lack solidity. The team is not well organized on the field and we have to work on this,” said the whites’ coach after receiving a severe corrective that precipitated the crisis of his squad by joining the defeat that Barça gave them in the classic played on October 26 at the Santiago Bernabéu.

“Emotionally it is not an individual problem, it is collective, we are not doing well and we are not well,” Carletto added in statements made to Movistar + shortly after seeing how Real Madrid offered another terrible image against Milan and fell with justice at the mercy to the goals from Thiaw, Morata and Reijnders that left the whites’ episodic reaction to nothing after Vinicius tied it at one by converting a penalty caused by himself. It was almost the only thing the ‘7’ did on a night to forget.

The stars of Real Madrid do not shine and neither does the cohesion among their players that was so decisive in achieving the League-Champions double last season. “We have to be focused on what we have today, which is a team that is not giving its best version, and fight again for all the competitions,” Ancelotti explained.

The transalpine is experiencing its most turbulent hours since he returned to Real Madrid in the summer of 2021 to open a successful second stage that has helped him achieve the fourteen titles that Miguel Muñoz won with the Chamartín club, but whose future could be in the wire to continue the bad streak of play and results in view, above all, of certain fractures that appear in the locker room and that were exposed with a tweet from Mina Bonino, Fede Valverde’s wife, which she later deleted, criticizing the change of her husband at the end of the first half against Milan. «Fede was not giving his 100%, he had a back problem but he trained well yesterday. But I think he had problems in the first half,” Ancelotti said.

Together through thick and thin

«We have to look for the solidity that we have had for a long time and that is now missing. “We have conceded nine goals in the last three games and this is too much for a team that has built its strength on solidity,” Ancelotti would later say in the press room, where he was questioned about the lesser impact than expected that the attacking duo is having. that make up Mbappé and Vinicius.

«On the offensive level we have had many opportunities, but what stands out, for me, is not this. We lacked a little success, we could have scored more, but the problem we have to fix mainly is the ease with which the rival creates chances,” insisted the Real Madrid coach, who stood up for his players at the same time. that he sent them some other message.

“I can’t say that my players are lazy, but we are not capable of doing an effective job,” said Ancelotti when he was reminded of the few kilometers his players travel in games compared to those done by other teams. «It is a characteristic of the team. Last year we weren’t first and won the Champions League either. This is not the problem. When you don’t have solidity you have to be together,” he added.

“On a defensive level we cannot be as we were tonight,” Ancelotti stressed once again, who understands that he is questioned when the results and the game do not agree. «It doesn’t seem unfair to me, it seems normal to me. When the team does not bring out its best version, the coach has the responsibility. It is very important that we all accept responsibility, including the players. When we win, we all win together and when we have to suffer we also have to do it together because that way we gain more strength,” he said.

«The locker room is healthy. Obviously there will be a lot of criticism, especially in attitude, training… This is part of the past and has happened many times. We have to accept criticism, but we have to be sure of the reality, which is that at this moment we are not doing well and we want to do better because it is very difficult to reach the end of the season. We have to defend better because that’s the key. I have to look for solutions to have a more balanced and solid team. Without going crazy to change, some tactical details can improve things,” concluded Carletto, who insists on working together with his players even though they are failing him.