MADRID, 3 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, believes that they deserved this Saturday’s victory against Betis, confirming that they have started the season “well” and that “the dynamics are good”, although he was critical of the goal conceded, which he described as “Pretty big mistake.”
“We have started the season well, but this has been a difficult game, where we have had difficulties in recovering because Betis handles the ball very well from behind and that has been something quite normal, but with the ball we have done well, we have very vertical, with good combinations, and we only lacked the last pass. I think we deserved to win,” Ancelotti said at a press conference.
In any case, he regretted the conceded goal and acknowledged that they must “take into account” that they have not yet been able to keep a clean sheet in the League. “The goal is a pretty serious mistake, they caught us inattentive in a throw-in. We have to improve these little situations”, he pointed out.
He liked the game of Rodrygo Goes, starter and author of the definitive 2-1. “For me, he is a special striker because he can play in all positions. He is very fast and very intelligent without the ball, very effective one-on-one. All his apprenticeship has ended and now he is for all intents and purposes a Real player. Madrid,” he remarked.
The Brazilian is one of those who can replace Karim Benzema, who has played everything so far. “It’s not true that we don’t have a substitute, there’s Mariano, Hazard, Rodrygo, sometimes Asensio or Modric, even if it didn’t work out. We’re not going to ‘kill’ him, we play every three days and some may rest, but so far physically I have seen him well. He is not so fine in finishing, but not because of the physique”,
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Those who did not play another day were Eden Hazard and Marco Asensio. “I know I can count on them and for me it’s enough. I don’t know how many minutes they are going to play, each game has its history and the changes were to put energy on the pitch. I didn’t need to put them in when we won 2-1”, he was honest. Italian.
In this sense, the man from Reggiolo sees his “staff ‘plugged in'” and praised Luka Modric and Toni Kroos, this substitute against Betis, who “are very intelligent and humble” and “know that they are important if they don’t play every matches”
“Our objective is to play effective football that is allowing us to play matches with the quality we have. The dynamics of the team at this moment are good, the squad is very confident in their quality and now comes the most complicated match of this first half which is the one on Tuesday against Celtic because they are a team with fantastic dynamics and we have to be prepared,” Ancelotti said.