The faces of Real Madrid fans were astonished as they watched from the stands of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, their team suffered a humiliating defeat against rival Barcelona, ​​who had been witnesses of a historic night in which their team overturned the result against Paris Saint-Germain, and achieved an amazing qualification for the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The shock of the harsh loss revived doubts about the Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti's choices and decisions, which earlier caused disappointing results for Real Madrid, and reinforced fears of his ability to lead the team to achieve good results in the remainder of the season.

Ancelotti admitted his mistakes and apologized in comments after the match, and told reporters, "My plan was to give the team more control and better pressure in the front, but it didn't work. I told the players that I was wrong."

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However, this did not excuse him from the harsh criticism leveled at him by the Spanish press issued on Monday.

The newspaper "AS" chose the headline "Ancelotti's suicide" to talk about the Italian coach's options during yesterday's match, and his decision to put midfielder Luka Modric, 36, in the position of the fake striker behind Vinicius and Rodrygo in the absence of the league's top scorer Karim Benzema for injury.

And the newspaper close to the royal club added, "On a day when the most logical thing was to compensate for Karim Benzema's absence with the simplest possible changes, Ancelotti did the opposite and his decisions cost the team humiliation throughout the ages."

After being two goals behind in the first half, Ancelotti decided to make more changes and relied on a trio in the heart of the defense, and the goal was to secure the defense, but it caused a greater failure.

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"Marca" newspaper said in its headline, "Tibaut Courtois saved Real from a greater humiliation," noting that the goalkeeper saved at least 4 dangerous chances to double the result.

And she continued, "It's a painful slap in the face. Barcelona came to Madrid and played the unrecognized league leaders."

The pro-Barcelona media was euphoric.

The Catalan newspaper, Mundo Deportivo, said, "Barcelona is back and it was a complete insult in Madrid. He manipulated the leaders and ended a series of defeats at the top."

Barcelona did not beat Real Madrid in 3 years, a disastrous record that showed the club's faltering until Xavi Hernandez took over the team last November.

"Xavi changed history," wrote the newspaper "Sport", which is close to Barcelona club, and added, "Xavi wanted to change the defeatist mentality. His project for the future, with these good results since the beginning of the year, needed a boost. There is nothing better than winning the summit at the Santiago Bernabeu to prove that Barcelona He became one of the greats again."