Black night at the Santiago Bernabéu: Ancelotti's ideas, the toughest defeat and Piqué's applause

The Clásico returned to the

later and did so for

to experience one of its darkest nights.

The shirt, black to commemorate the

of the club, wore the worst collective performance of the white team this season and the most disastrous in many years.

In front, for more pain,

, eternal rival.

There was less equality in the table,

, but the same sporting hatred on the pitch.

The presence of

on the culé bench encouraged the

stands , who tried to warm up the duel from the previous one, but it had no effect on the squad.

Madrid suffered the

since

at the

and the most embarrassing at home since

.

A night that will join others that already belong to the most painful memory of the meringues: 5-0 in Barcelona on 10-11,

of Spain on 08-09... And it is added to some of the great failures in recent Madrid history on their own ground, such as the

, both in the Champions League.

But this Sunday was different.

Carlo Ancelotti

recovered a

that he had not used since the defeat in

against

(2-1).

It was October 3.

A world and a lot of 4-3-3 since then to move away in the lead to the nine points that now appear over

.

The Italian scheme, with

, broke his team.

Carletto

, who was desperately giving directions to the Croat during several breaks before the break, took 45 minutes to change his mind.

Those that Barcelona took to walk through the Castellana on the worst night of the season for

.

Everything came together.

The centrals failed in the two goals of the first half.

After intermission, tactical chaos ensued.

Ancelotti started with three central defenders, Ferran missed a very clear chance and in the next one he scored the dramatic 0-3.

The defense collapsed in two minutes and Madrid returned to four defenders, with

and Alaba as a winger.

It didn't work either.

Ancelotti, impassive and pensive on the wing, watched as the entire Barça bench celebrated

.

The Madrid defense protested, having stood still when the linesman raised the flag for culé being offside, but

and the Gabon attacker did not forgive.

As the public left the stadium with half an hour to go, the win could have been greater.

Courtois, the best, avoided a tragedy and the remaining time was used for some approach from Madrid and for the public to applaud a

.

Piqué, ironic, also joined the clapping.

"

", he hastened to tweet the central.

The break will find

and in the quarterfinals of the

, but with one of the

of recent times against a

that had just played in the

.

"

. The result says it all. It was one of our worst games of the season.

in the standings and it wasn't a game to come out like that, quite the opposite", Nacho admitted, who faced the televisions.

"It always hurts a lot to lose the Clasico. We haven't been good at any stage. Everything has gone wrong, from the start. We came out of the break and they scored two quick goals for us as well.

, they annulled us in all lines. Congratulations," he concluded.

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