Real Madrid resolved the first match of the Champions League quarterfinals without problems. With goals from Benzema and Asensio, the white team will travel to Stamford Bridge with a good income in the tie. Carlo Ancelotti was “satisfied” with the result and assured that “the team played well”, although he did not hide his self-demand: “I think we could do better, especially in the combinations in the last third”.

The Italian coach acknowledged that his team did not go well, but that he knew how to react: “The first few minutes we were not in a good position, but then we managed the game well. We did well eleven against eleven and when we got one more, the game was good”, he assessed, although he confessed that at times they “lacked a bit of energy to find the best solution”.

For Ancelotti, despite the 2-0 draw, the tie is not resolved: “We have to go there to play the way we are playing. We don’t have to look at the result because there are another 90 minutes and we have to suffer and fight”. “We have to be calm and calm. In football anything can happen. It is good to have an advantage, but you have to manage it well”, he added.

Real Madrid player Vinícius, named best of the game, assured that it was “one of the best games of the season”. “We played very well and winning at home is very nice, but there is a long way to go”, he warned: “The second half is yet to come and we have to keep a cool head and come out strong”. Real Madrid will play the second leg at Stamford Bridge, something they took into account when planning the game at the Bernabéu, as Vinícius acknowledged: “We knew that playing the second game away from home is more difficult and that’s why we wanted to score all the goals we could”. Regarding his personal performance, the striker explained that he works hard to reach this stage in the best conditions: “I train with Pintus, at home with my coach to reach this phase of the season in which the others are going down and I am going up ”

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