Carlo Ancelotti attended a press conference to analyze the news in the hours leading up to the match between Real Madrid and Osasuna this Saturday at 21:00 in El Sadar. The Italian spokesman about the match played with the reds, the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 to be played against Liverpool on Tuesday, and of course the payment he made to José María Enríquez, Barcelona’s Deputy Chairman of the Technical Referees Committee. black.
The first words were about the Negreira case: “I was focused on the matches, nothing more.Are people suspicious of competition? This is not good. Sports should always be clean. And for that we must all cooperate. I have nothing to comment on ‘Barçagate’.
He then spoke about the Anfield match: “We know Liverpool very well, so we dedicate 24 hours to Osasuna. Tomorrow (for this Saturday) is a very important game because we can reach 5 points. I don’t think about tomorrow’s squad as my mind is on Tuesday. Tomorrow they can play like they did at Anfield.”
Álvaro Rodríguez to premiere
Carletto confirmed that Modric and Rodrygo will start at El Sadar and also that Uruguayan Álvaro Rodríguez, a striker from the youth academy, will be making the roster: “He’s doing well. He was in the South American U-20 tournament so he didn’t make it into the final calls but will enter tomorrow. It gives us a profile we don’t have: tall and fat.” The young player will replace Benzema, who was dropped from the roster due to fatigue: “He did very well after the World Cup. He scored in almost every game. Let him rest and it will be good for the rest of this season. Karim is returning from an injury and we choose not to risk it. If there was a Liverpool game tomorrow, I wouldn’t be playing either.”
Finally, he spoke about the 8-point distance that separates him from Barcelona in the League, but they did not give up: “The goal is to reach 5 points for now. The calendar is tough, full of important matches and we want to keep the good vibes.. We are doing well, but we can improve further and that’s what we’re going for. In football you go from good to bad by doing nothing… and vice versa. We prepare all matches by thinking that the next match is the last. Just like that”.