Ancelotti: "We Have to Be Concerned"

Carlo Ancelotti did not sugarcoat the heavy defeat that Real Madrid suffered this Tuesday against Milan in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage. "We have to be concerned, the team is not giving a good version. The team is not compact, we have to be more compact, more organized. We have conceded many goals because we lack solidity. The team is not well organized on the field and we have to work on this," said the coach of the whites after receiving a severe blow that accelerates the crisis of his squad, adding to the thrashing by Barça in the classic played on October 26 at the Santiago Bernabéu.

"Mentally, it is not an individual problem, it is collective. We are not doing well and we are not well," Carletto added in statements made to Movistar + shortly after seeing how Real Madrid offered another poor performance against Milan and fell deservedly due to the goals of Thiaw, Morata, and Reijnders, which nullified the episodic reaction of the whites after Vinicius equalized by converting a penalty he himself provoked. It was almost the only thing the '7' did on a night to forget.

The stars of Real Madrid do not shine, and neither does the cohesion among their players that was so crucial in achieving the League-Champions double last season. "We have to focus on what we have today, which is a team that is not giving its best version and return to fighting for all competitions," explained Ancelotti, who is experiencing his most turbulent hours since returning to Real Madrid in the summer of 2021 to open a successful second stage that has allowed him to reach the fourteen titles won by Miguel Muñoz with the Chamartín club. However, his future could be in jeopardy if the poor run of play and results continues, especially given certain fractures that seem to be emerging in the locker room, which were exposed by a tweet from Mina Bonino, the wife of Fede Valverde, who later deleted it, criticizing her husband's substitution at the end of the first half against Milan. "Fede was not giving his one hundred percent, he had a back problem but trained well yesterday. But I think he had problems in the first half," Ancelotti commented on the matter.