At Real Madrid there is full confidence in Carlo Ancelotti and there is only one hypothesis that would make him leave earlier than expected: a catastrophe in these final months. Not adding the thirty-fifth to the white cabinet in the current context would be. The bomb would not be detonated by an elimination in the Champions League, where other ogres have claws as sharp or sharper than the white team. But LaLiga is another story. Nine points above Sevilla with nine games to go, the same distance that Barça would appear if they win their postponed clash with Rayo.
The azulgrana installed the doubt with their 0-4 at the Santiago Bernabéu. Not because of the result or the decrease in income, but because of sensations. After the debacle Ancelotti assumed blame, although he asked “don’t make a drama out of this party”. The season, at the moment, needs to maintain stability and the players their self-confidence. For this, he knows that he cannot panic. Its objective is clear: Don’t trip over the same stone twice.
In the 2014-15, Madrid dominated the championship with an iron fist, with the Champions League in Lisbon still latent, they had won the European Super Cup and also the Club World Cup. the sensational 22-game winning streak It put the icing on the cake of solvent and fun football, supported by a 4-4-2 that ended with Benzema and Cristiano and with Isco winning the game against Bale in the eleven.
The triplet appeared, but in December, after falling in Valencia (2-1), everything began to go wrong. The one who would lift the three titles would be Barça, overcoming a four-point deficit at that time and beating Juventus in Berlin and Athletic at the Camp Nou at the end of the season. Orejona and Copa al zurrón for Luis Enrique, who passed the disputed witness that he carried in some points of the season to a Ancelotti who would end up being fired. Benítez would arrive and Zidane would relieve him in January, but that’s another story.
Two sound blows
The bump against Atleti at the Vicente Calderón (4-0 with goals from Tiago, Saúl, Griezmann and Mandzukic) and the white defeat at the Camp Nou (2-1), where Cristiano’s goal after Benzema’s sensational backheel was not enough (Mathieu opened the scoring and Suárez broke the tie), were two hard blows that laid the foundations for the final trauma. 94 to 92 for the azulgrana, who sailed through endless doubts that almost cost the position of the now national coach and managed to adjust the oars in time.
Quite the opposite of Ancelotti’s first Madrid, whose ship was flooding until it was shipwrecked. What seemed like an American movie with a happy ending had the script backwards. Now, Carletto will try to flee from ghosts of the pastThey are the only ones who could change the expiration date to their second stage in Madrid.