Resignation was the word in the Real Madrid locker room where for the second consecutive year the team left without being able to win (last season Madrid lost). Carlo Ancelotti appeared before the media with the displeasure of the two points that had vanished and tried to get a positive reading: “The draw does not leave us happy, but this point can be very positive. “Sometimes there are draws that hurt, but they can be a positive step to win the League.”
The Italian coach does not believe he has to criticize his players: “This year it is difficult for them to have anything to reproach us for.” Then he hid behind how complicated it is to play in Vallecas: “It’s not easy to play here. You have to get used to this field, which is shorter, smaller. You have to play a different game. We started very well, but the penalty changed everything.”
Apart from two points, Madrid lost Carvajal for the next matchday against Sevilla, who was sent off (with cards in 92 and 94) and Camavinga, who is completing the warning cycle. Ancelotti exonerated them: “I will talk about it on a personal level with the players. It was a match with many duels, a lot of fighting. You can understand a little protest.”
“The truth – Ancelotti continued – is that after the draw it was a different match, one that we don’t like to play, with a lot of fighting, a lot of interruptions. It was different from the beginning. You have to accept it because sometimes games are like that. But we have competed and that is the most important thing, although we did not find solutions in the second half,” he stated.
Asked if all the noise around Mbappé could have distracted his team, Ancelotti denied it: “When have we not been focused? I think always; also today when things haven’t gone so well.”
The coach evaluated the performance of Modric, who returned to the team today: “He played very well, he tried in every way. With the ball he was the most lucid. He played very well, he tried to find passes and his position was “Good. He’s the same Modric as always.”
