“I’m not going to say ‘This isn’t football’. I said it at the other press conference and it was an incredible mess…”. Both penalties approved. the Real Madrid’s defeat to Villarrealsecond of whites LaLiga marked the entire post-match, but Carlo Ancelotti avoided the controversy. After the state of the pitch in Cacereño where he said “this isn’t football”, that was enough for this week for a man as calm as the Italian.
There was actually quite a bit of consensus at La Cerámica. none of them should be penalized, but they should be penalized by the current regulation.. This is what common sense dictates before a hand, due to slight friction (Foyth’s) that does not even affect the development of the game, and because the player is off the ground after sliding (Alaba).
“For me, neither one nor the other is a penalty. But football has changed and it is a penalty hand that is no longer close to the body. Even though we football fans don’t like it, we all need to get used to this rule and the referees should follow it.‘ was the Italian’s reading, who didn’t take advantage of the situation to add hot piping to a game that Villarreal ‘played better’ than his team.
self criticism
“We didn’t defend well, we left a lot of space between the lines and we made mistakes in the beginning. We did not start this year well, as we did last year.“, by analyzing Ancelotti, left an interesting trail for whistleblowers.
As a matter of fact, 2022 started with a white loss in LaLiga, in that case it ended with a 1-0 victory over Getafe and a goal from Enes Ünal. If you look back to Carletto’s first stage at the Bernabéu, you can see that the sequence has been partially extended. Madrid opened 2014 with a 3-0 win over Celta, which is an exception, but they welcomed 2015 with a 2-1 win at Mestalla.
Absolutely, Three of Ancelotti’s Real Madrid’s four calendar years started with a defeat. A sensation experienced only twice this season by current League and Champions League champions: in Leipzig in the Champions League and in Vallecas in the LaLiga. At the Bernabéu, he is undefeated by two draws against Osasuna and Girona. They conceded just one more draw during their visit to Shakhtar in the Champions League this season.
Without Carvajal, Lucas, Asensio…
But if there was something odd about Real Madrid’s visit to Villarreal, it was their starting 11: For the first time in the Whites’ history, no Spanish players started in 4,436 games. The replacement of Carvajal and Lucas Vázquez on the right had saved that situation so far.however, given the injury of the first and the accumulated minutes of the second, Ancelotti chose to put Militao in that position this Saturday.
Secondary players with recurring entries such as Nacho and Asensio remained on the bench. (The Spaniard, like Lucas, came out in the second half), the other national players of the white team barely added minutes this season: Ceballos (367), Vallejo (56), Odriozola (51 and now injured) and Mariano (25), in addition to the third goalkeeper, an unprecedented Luis López and local players Álvaro and Arribas, who each played for a while.