Real Madrid’s Italian coach, Carlo Ancelotti, said in a statement to the press: Manchester City’s equalizing goal Champions League semi-final first leg was illegal for arguing that the ball was “out” and criticized that “the referee was not very careful”. “He went out. I’m not saying it’s the technology, but they couldn’t control it well. A 1-0 win didn’t change the picture much. The referee wasn’t too careful and took the card from his hand.” The players deserved more cards on the field, not me out there,” he assured.
The Italian coach couldn’t believe it after he said he could see a television footage showing it. the ball is out of the field, very close to the technical area, but no one informed the referee. “We confirmed that the ball came out. We saw it in Bein Sport, not with VAR technology because if it didn’t, I didn’t see it,” he criticized.
Despite playing in the King’s Cup final on Saturday night and with less than 72 hours between games, ‘Carletto’ was happy with the physical level of his players. “Given that we played at midnight on Saturday, the team recovered very well and played a very complete game physically. Now we have more time to recover well for Wednesday’s game,” he said. He makes it clear that his game against Getafe on Saturday will be a big part of the headlines.
For Ancelotti, Real Madrid “deserved to win” the match and is leaving “with good feelings” ahead of the second game. “It’s normal for City to have the ball, but we can’t go crazy because we know that sooner or later the opportunity to score will come our way. We played very well, we had chances and we are happy with our game.” . I hope we can repeat that at Etihad”. “In the first episode we weren’t patient at first, we could have done a lot better with the ball than we did in the second episode, we were more patient and we found the gaps we could find in the first episode as well,” he added to his analysis.
Erling Haaland’s premiere at the Santiago Bernabéu, Praised by his coach Antonio Rüdiger. “He played a great game that needs to be underlined like everyone else. We were very good on defense. They didn’t create a lot of chances for us, they scored with an off-field shot because there was a commitment behind the team”.
He also devoted Nice words to meet Eduardo Camavinga. “Sometimes we try to get him off the wing as he can be a problem inside. In the second half he played the ball more inside and left the wing to Vinícius. Camavinga is positioning himself as a winger, guaranteed in every way. He’s developing well and very fast”.