Ancelotti left little room for amendments with his message in the press room. If Real Madrid can rebound and win that tie and win a Copa del Rey trophy (that is too rare given their history), they have to shake-up several ideologies that have held them back.įorgive the fan base for being pessimistic that that will happen. They can snatch away a third on April 5th. Previous mistakes have not been corrected.īarcelona have already taken two trophies away from Real Madrid this season.
So as the team walked off the field last night losing yet another game against Barcelona, it’s no surprise that Carlo Ancelotti’s words after the match - words that exuded ‘moral victory’ - did not sit well. But that’s a distant memory now, and since that October Clasico, Real Madrid dropped enough points to ensure that the league was lost in March. In October, Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3 - 1 at the Bernabeu. In what is the biggest game on the calendar against a domestic opponent, Carlo Ancelotti’s men have conceded five and scored two over those three melees, and the manner in which they lost has been different in all three of them, while the core tenants remains the same. Real Madrid have now lost three consecutive Clasicos and have gotten it wrong in all of them. These observations - where I look at Real Madrid ’s history, its players on loan, Castilla, tactical tidbits, and other relevant thoughts - are now a regular thing.
