Ancelotti announces that he bears responsibility for the El Clasico scandal .. “The loss hurts us and we played badly.”
The Italian coach of Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti, acknowledged the responsibility of his team's heavy loss in front of its arch-rivals Barcelona, by four clean, at the Santiago Bernabeu in the Spanish League on Sunday, stressing that he did not prepare his team well for the match.
"My squad was not good, things did not go as they should and I don't find any problem in taking responsibility for the heavy loss," Ancelotti said.
We played badly and didn't prepare the team as we should, sometimes we fail, that's how things are."
"I was aware that this match was of special importance to our supporters and therefore I am really sorry," he added.
Barcelona beat us and deserves to win.”
"We have two weeks to work (during the international window), we will get (forward) Karim Benzema and (back-back) Ferland Mendy.
We have time to digest this loss.
We'll catch our breath and prepare for the final race of the season for titles.
The downtime will benefit us.”
And about his involvement of veteran Croatian midfielder Luka Modric in an advanced position, Ancelotti, winner of the local league in four major tournaments in his career (Italy, England, Germany and France), replied, “We wanted more control of the ball and high pressure, but after we fell behind with a goal, the plan did not go and the opposing team succeeded in harm us.”
He concluded, "This loss hurts us without a doubt, but we have to maintain our balance.
I may fail once, but I rarely fail twice.”
Despite the loss, Real Madrid is still resting at the top of the Spanish League, 9 points behind Sevilla, whose level has declined a lot recently and fallen into a spiral of draws, and the capital’s team reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, which holds its record (13 times) after That overthrew Paris Saint-Germain and set a date with Chelsea, the defending champion.
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