Ancelotti dodges the mines

Of that Madrid besieged by doubts after the defeat against Cornellà there is hardly anything left. Carlo Ancelotti has managed to take advantage of reprise of the pause of selections to polish different fronts that worried him. With a backbone, to finally stay with a typical scheme (4-3-3) as announced that it was going to happen from Shakhtar, has solved the pressing problem of the wings with the return of Carvajal and Mendy and above all he has managed to find something that he saw vital, an ideal companion for Benzema in the figure of Vinicius. From a path of mines, with that week cheating with the trip to Kiev and the Camp Nou, Carletto has come out strengthened and seeing the path to take his Real Madrid …

The 1-2 against the Sheriff left Ancelotti with a bad dream and turning over something that ended up forming after the defeat against Espanyol. It was imperative to stay with a specific game system, a more understandable drawing for your squad. In this same season he had gone through the changing room with different outfits. The 4-4-2, an unusual 4-4-1-1 in Mestalla, the 4-2-3-1 … tests and more tests that ended with atypical situations (Camavinga on the left back) and the madridismo certainly confused. For Kiev, everything changed. “My idea is clear, you have to play in a 4-3-3, there is no other way “, expressed forcefully before meeting against the Shakhtar so dangerous if it was lost. Madrid came out against the Ukrainians with that drawing and the recovery of the Casemiro-Kroos-Modric triangle. Bingo. The result, that 0-5 that brought back that Madrid that overwhelmed rivals. Also the solvency to win a Classic without trouble at the Camp Nou (1-2). Nor was he surprised by this Osasuna who passes through the strongest rival at home …

End to the torture on the sides

Many of the problems in defense that Ancelotti complained about during this first section of the course came because he did not completely trust Lucas Vázquez as the first alternative to be the From nor Miguel Gutiérrez in the role of three. That is why the return of Carvajal, like a shot against Osasuna, and the stability that Mendy gives him, which allows Alaba to settle as a center-back and even encourage him to go up in plays such as 0-1 against Barça, give a joy the Italian on the sides. With the French, the rear begins to give more air of solidity. Kun’s goal was in discount and Osasuna did not find a goal as they had before Celta and Mallorca despite being crushed with goals.

That is, that of the goals, a new facet that began to worry the Madrid coach during this month of October. Benzema was a Batman without Robin and Friends has finally taken the cape to be the Boy Wonder. Ancelotti’s longstanding and seamless trust has been the mortar for this. There are eleven consecutive titles of Friends, something unthinkable with Zidane (and his predecessors), and the result is an increase in your production above. He was the best in Kiev, the agitator of the Classic and the protagonist of the possible penalty from rojillo Lucas Torró. Ancelotti, breathe easier than before the break.