Ancelotti: "This defeat makes us stronger"

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The statistics warned that defeating the same team four consecutive times was an extraordinary event.

This time he did get the Big Data right, fortunately for

and unfortunately for

.

The Asturian coach opted for intensity in all lines;

the Italian, for a false 9 that was not propitious.

, with a team punished by the accumulation of efforts (

,

,

), was not fine in the administration of minutes and in the face of such a physically demanding commitment he only opted for two substitutions and none of them appealed to

,

and

, whom he had highlighted in the previous one.

New message about how little he believes in them.

First title that escapes the Italian.

«Neither Jovic, nor Hazard nor Bale are punished.

What happens is that I have made decisions in which they did not enter.

They are not punished nor are the others who did not play, such as

,

or

».

The coach assured that the elimination will not have negative consequences, on the contrary, since he assured that it will serve to give the group more solidity.

"We are hurt, because we want to win in all competitions, but I don't think this defeat will have consequences, what's more, I think it makes us stronger," he stressed before stating that he replaced

with

and Vinicius with

due to fatigue.

“I didn't make any more changes because I was thinking of reaching extra time;

With Athletic's goal, he no longer had time to make other changes.

I believed that in extra time we could win », he justified.

Ancelotti also pointed out that the key to Athletic's victory was in the pressure exerted by their rival in the creation zone: “We didn't have a clean start from behind.

They put a lot of pressure on us."

"You have to create more danger"

Nacho Fernández

, the white captain, acknowledged mistakes: «It has not been one of our best games, it has cost us.

You have to be a little finer up top, create more danger.

This is soccer.

We have lost in a difficult field... The organization of the matches is not the best, but we are not going to make excuses, we have to continue, there is a lot left".

Real Madrid was once again eliminated in an inauspicious tournament in this century.

In the last 22 years, they have only won two titles: in 2014, with a 2-1 win against Barcelona, ​​and in 2011, with a 1-0 win against the culé team.

They lost the 2013 finals, against Atlético (2-1), the 2004 final, against Zaragoza (3-2) and the 2002 final, against Deportivo (2-1).

In addition, along the way there were humiliating defeats against Toledo, Real Unión, Alcorcón or Alcoyano and an elimination due to improper alignment against Cádiz.

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