The Real Madrid players left the Santiago Bernabéu looking bleak, between disappointment and frustration after being beaten by an overwhelming Barça. Meanwhile, Carlo Ancelotti, still hot, asked Hansi Flick for explanations for the attitude of his assistant Toni Tapalović. “The assistant has not been a gentleman. He celebrated the goals in front of our bench. That’s what I told Flick. He understood it,” the whites coach explained about the incident.
Ancelotti had no qualms about making “self-criticism”, but advocated “not throwing everything away” for “a result that weighs.” “We are hurt, it is a hard and difficult moment. We must continue fighting. The team has competed for 60 minutes, we have to forget the last 30. I am worried about the defeat, but we must get up,” said the Italian about a match that he divided into two moments, “even while tied” and then “with spaces.”
“The assistant has not been a gentleman. He celebrated the goals in front of our bench. “That’s what I told Flick.”
“When they scored they took away our energy. “We have taken risks defending the man,” continued Ancelotti, who defended his approach, at least for “60 minutes”: “I have no regrets.”
Carlo Ancelotti and Hansi Flick, in the classic.
The coach also excused his great star, Kylian Mbappé, for being offside several times: “We almost didn’t take advantage of the high line of their defense. Sometimes it has been ahead. “It’s normal.”
“The last defeat against Barça was 0-4, we won the League and the Champions League.”
Ancelotti, who valued his experience, since he has been in football for “48 years,” recalled that “the season is very long” and that they must “learn from defeat.” “The last time we lost to Barça 0-4, we won the League and the Champions League,” concluded the transalpine player in reference to the 2021-22 season.
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