The press conference after a defeat at Real Madrid is never easy, especially after a derby in which a bad image is given. Carlo Ancelotti spent his drink this morning drawing on his experience, defending his system and making light of what happened. “Criticism is part of my position, of the coach’s job, and it appears when you coach Madrid and things don’t go well, but it doesn’t affect me. Public opinion can give its opinion and say whatever it wants. I can’t get into this. I must evaluate things with more balance and, fortunately, it is in my blood due to my balanced genetics. To question a team that has won six games out of seven seems too much to me,” he commented.
The coach defended how he planned the derby: “Each system has its weakness. The rhombus is not the perfect system, but it allows you to press higher and recover. The downside is that sometimes they throw you off because the interiors do not have time to retreat and in that “We work. It is difficult for us to control the bands, especially in our field. The lack is quite evident.”
For Ancelotti, the drawing in the derby was not very different from usual: “What I changed was what I told Bellingham when defending. In attack it was the same, breaking lines and moving all over the field to do damage. Then I made Modric play as a 10, but I had already done that before,” he insisted.
The Madrid coach is worried about conceding so many goals so soon (four before the first 20 minutes): “It’s something that has happened too many times, we have pointed it out. We have to change the attitude of the first minutes. In the derby we have seen “We watched the videos of the goals conceded and we know that we had to be more forceful. We had to avoid easy crosses and accumulate more people in our area.”
The good news for the whites is that except for Courtois and Militão, the rest have already recovered. Ancelotti highlighted the ability to have the young Turkish player Arda Güler: “He is available. He needs minutes, a bit of physical condition and getting used to the team’s game, but he is fine. In this time he has shown that he has an extraordinary natural talent due to genetics” .
Ancelotti also denied that it is difficult for him to seat Kroos and Modric in important matches, one of the criticisms that is made most insistently: “It doesn’t bother me at all. This is my job, as I have said before. It is not true that “I don’t dare leave Modric and Kroos on the bench. Here all the games are important. If I have to answer all the criticism… pufff… I would spend a lot of time here,” he said.
Ancelotti also rejected that the diamond player harms Kroos and Modric: “They can play in any system in the world due to the quality, knowledge and experience they have. In fact, they would have no problems playing in any scheme.”
Ancelotti made an unusual criticism for him following a question about Rodrygo: “The mistakes that young coaches make are that they give too much information in the game with the ball to the players. And I, who am from the old school, give more “freedom to creativity. Without the ball, everything has to be sacrifice and concentration. But with the ball there must be creativity. If they want to open up and attack from the wing, I’m never going to tell them anything. I don’t want to undermine everyone’s creativity.”
Ancelotti did not want to talk about his future. Asked if he would accept his renewal, he commented: “I am very happy here, everyone knows it. But now is not the time to talk about this.”
Finally, the Italian coach finished with a defense of Kepa: “He has my complete confidence; he is a very good goalkeeper and he is doing excellently. The three Metropolitano goals were everyone’s fault. I don’t like to point fingers at anyone, least of all him. , who couldn’t do anything.”
