The Real Madrid returns to the scene in the Champions League next Tuesday with a visit to Shakhtar that gains importance after the great surprise of the Sheriff at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, which added to the league defeat at Espanyol’s home, leaves Carlo Ancelotti faced with a situation that he only suffered once in his first year and three times in his second.
Never lost Ancelotti tthree consecutive games at the helm of Real Madrid in the two seasons that shaped his first stage on the white bench.
He suffered it four times and always reacted with victories to close those potholes in results. Her team needs her on Tuesday in the city of Donetsk against a Shakhtar who in the last edition defeated the two matches of the group stage against the Madrid team, at that time led by Zinedine Zidane.
In his first year at the helm of Real Madrid, in which he won the 10th European Cup, the losing streak of two consecutive defeats did not come until March. Both in the League, conditioning the path of their team and hindering their chances of success in the domestic competition as they face important rivals.
The first as painful as a classic that always marks. The day of the Argentine exhibition Leo Messi con a triplet for the history of Barcelona at the Bernabéu (3-4). It was on March 23, 2014 and three days later, accusing the blow, he was defeated again in the visit to Sánchez Pizjuán against Sevilla (2-1). A double for the Colombian Carlos Bacca I was turning to both the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
Until then, the team dand Ancelotti sHe had only lost two games out of 44, with as many as 36 wins. Of course, it was against Atlético de Madrid and their first classic, at the Camp Nou, duels that mark. The first time he linked two defeats, the Italian coach reacted with three consecutive wins until he fell back in the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund (2-0), in a game without consequences as it was the second round after scoring in the going.
The irregularity was more present in the second year of Ancelotti in which his first bad moment was not long in coming. In the second and third league matches he linked two lost games against Real Sociedad (4-2) and the derby against Atlético de Madrid (1-2), a meeting in which he has never won.
The response was overwhelming, with the best winning streak and record, up to 22 in a row with a final touch, the conquest of the Club World Cup. The Christmas holidays did not sit well with their squad and 2015 began with two important setbacks, against Valencia in the League and Atlético de Madrid in the Copa del Rey, a 2-0 that they would not be able to lift in the return leg. In between he left his league reaction with victory against Espanyol.
The last precedent in its first stage came in a black March, with a defeat in San Mamés against Athletic (1-0) and in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Schalke 04 (3-4), which did not cause the elimination thanks to the 0-2 of the first leg. The reaction with victory was short since it closed the month falling in the classic of the Camp Nou. A situation that presents itself now, with the possibility of escaping from his bad moment in Donetsk before facing the visit to Barça.
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