Milan sets Real Madrid on fire and leaves Ancelotti shaken

Real Madrid‘s crisis is now an unquestionable reality. Once again devoid of football, attitude and energy, Chamartín’s team fell resoundingly against Milan this Tuesday and is looking into the abyss. With the Santiago Bernabéu on fire due to the lack of plan, ideas and blood that he sees day in and day out in his team, Carlo Ancelotti, lacking a response, is left devastated.

The goals from Thiaw, Morata and Reijnders consummated another night to forget on the Paseo de la Castellana that deepens the bad moment that a Real Madrid is going through in which there is no trace of the squad that ruled in the Champions League and in the It links last year with an absolute authority, but now it is a rubbish.

Scratched by Lille at the beginning of October, embarrassed by Barça in the classic played a week and a half ago and executed again this Tuesday by a Milan that is by no means the one that consumed the Quinta del Buitre, Ancelotti’s troops are a collection of stars without any cohesion that not even the epic can rescue. A goal disallowed against Rüdiger due to offside and a formidable save by Maignan on Brahim with regulation time already up prevented the locals from being able to resort this time to the usual bugle call to save another unpresentable performance that complicates their lives in the Champions League and leaves his technician hanging. Florentino’s impatience plays against Carletto’s credit.

Although Real Madrid came out shorn of the classic, the transalpine only changed one card in the eleven with respect to that duel with Barça: Modric for Camavinga with the hope that the Croatian would provide the necessary whip to a midfield incapable of deploying the powerful ride that is assumed.

This Real Madrid needs to run in a long stride, but it almost always does so without foundation. It became evident again this Tuesday with another disastrous performance in which Milan took the lead. The Lombard team hit early, taking advantage of the locals’ laxity in defending a corner kick to take the lead. Theo Hernández launched and Tiaw headed into the net, taking advantage of the lukewarm marking of Ancelotti’s centre-backs and the lack of hierarchy of Lunin, who preferred to take cover under the crossbar instead of attacking the ball as he should.

Real Madrid managed to recover thanks to a penalty caused by Vinicius and executed Panenka-style by the Brazilian. It is worth acknowledging the ‘7’ who never wrinkles, but in his owe it is worth noting again an abandonment of the administration’s tasks that once again cost Real Madrid dearly.

Once again overwhelmed by the pressure, Ancelotti’s team, whose promising performance quickly faded, granted Milan freedom of movement and received a well-deserved correction. It was preluded by a poor delivery from Tchouaméni, but the action that ended with Morata taking advantage of a rebound from Lunin after a shot from Leao to beat the Ukrainian also portrayed Vinicius, who ignored the action and collaborated in a new defensive confusion for his squad.

Although Mbappé was close to leveling the score again with a counterattack launched by Militao but aborted by Maignan, Real Madrid went to halftime hearing whistles again from a fan that does not forgive the lack of attitude.

Shrunken

Carletto took note, modifying the scheme on the way back from the locker room with a double change that summarized his discontent, but which had no effect. Camavinga came in for Valverde and Brahim for Tchouaméni in a team that reconfigured itself with three riders in the midfield and an offensive trident without the wind changing course. Quite the opposite.

Shrunken, without authority, order or concert, Real Madrid was a bundle of nerves and was exposed time and again to the counterattacks of the ‘Rossoneri’, who could have caused a real mess. The whites lacked government, blood, and even faith, with the stars waging war on their own and no ties between the lines. Mbappé and Vinicius didn’t have their night either, nor did they appear. A full-fledged drama.

Morata tried his luck with a spur shot before retiring in the middle of the whistle from what was once his parish. However, it was Reijnders who definitively extinguished any hope of a comeback on the part of the locals, culminating in a counterattack precipitated by Leao that left Real Madrid beaten for the first time in their fiefdom in Europe since they lost to Chelsea in the quarterfinal second leg. of the 2021-22 campaign and has conceded nine goals in his last three home games, with Ancelotti already stuck on the tightrope.