Ancelotti on Real Madrid squeezing past Leipzig
Ancelotti on Real Madrid squeezing past Leipzig
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain
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00:00 Good evening, welcome. We start the press conference.
00:02 Remember, a question for intervention and before identifying with your name and the one in the middle.
00:07 Hi, Carlos. Abraham Romero, El Mundo. Congratulations on the qualification.
00:14 Yesterday, you said in the preview that you had more suffering than happiness.
00:20 I don't know if that reflection fits the feelings of right now,
00:26 more suffering for the game than happiness for the qualification.
00:30 Suffering in the game, yes. A lot of suffering.
00:34 Too much of what was thought, because it was a complicated game.
00:40 Not well played, played badly.
00:43 So, a lot of suffering. Now, very happy.
00:48 We reached the quarter-finals.
00:50 We are better than ever, because we have seven points of advantage in the league.
00:56 In the quarter-finals, if they told us this at the beginning of the season, we would have signed him.
01:02 This is one thing. The other thing, we have to improve.
01:07 We have not played well.
01:09 Be critical, because I think it has happened again.
01:16 When we have a small advantage, we have not been able to manage it.
01:21 Mentally, we were not well.
01:25 Little pressure, little intensity.
01:28 Maybe I was wrong in the line-up.
01:32 But it was to put intensity, energy, which we have not done.
01:37 So, we have to improve, be self-critical, evaluate what we have not done well.
01:49 Good evening, I am Melchor Ruiz, from the Copa de Madrid.
01:55 I wanted you to define the game with a rating.
01:59 Can you explain what you wanted to do against Leipzig?
02:04 Avoid a counterattack and the danger they have to the attack.
02:08 Because the fans do not understand what Real Madrid wanted to play today.
02:14 Yes, I do not understand either.
02:18 The idea was to put energy to try to press up, to have the high rhythm of the game.
02:26 To avoid counter-transitions.
02:29 The reality is that it has been a weak game, with a low block.
02:37 We have never been able to press up.
02:41 Which was planned to do.
02:45 What is the team's performance?
02:49 I do not know. Suffering.
02:53 We return to suffering.
02:56 Last year, we did not play against Liverpool, because we had a lot of advantage.
03:03 It is a bit in the history of this team that we are not able to handle this type of advantage.
03:12 It happened in my first stage against Schalke, we had won the game 2-0, we lost 3-4.
03:20 It is something we have to do and prepare the game differently.
03:27 Fernando Burgos, Radio Estadio Noche.
03:39 I may have been wrong in the alignment.
03:42 If you were to play the game again with the 0-1 lead, would you do the same alignment?
03:48 Do you understand the critical sense that exists when the team does not play well after a season where you have only lost two games of 39?
03:58 As I said, the criticism when it is deserved, you have to accept it.
04:04 Today's criticism is totally deserved.
04:08 The pints at the end of the first half are deserved.
04:13 I think that we have played a better second half and we have awakened.
04:18 I think that it is necessary to have a demanding audience, like the Bernabeu.
04:24 Because in the hospital, as we expected, the team was awakening.
04:31 At some moments, we have done the second half.
04:34 The truth is that we are very happy that we are in the fourth.
04:44 It is very critical because we have not played well and we have to play better.
04:49 Would you do the same team?
04:52 Now? No, no, not at all.
04:56 Hello, Carlos. Good evening. Anton Mejana, live from the La Cadena Ser.
05:02 We have seen you on TV when you have been asked about the prosecution.
05:06 Now that you are in the press room, do you want to explain it again?
05:10 And above all, how has it affected you today?
05:13 Because your image has come out in all the newspapers of the world with a request for a prison sentence.
05:17 You defend your innocence and explain that you were in 2015 residing outside Spain.
05:22 But I don't know how you have lived it and what you can explain about it.
05:25 I think this is not the best place to talk about this.
05:30 I have commented on this in an interview before.
05:34 What I can say is that it is an old story and nothing affects me.
05:40 Hopefully, it can be resolved soon. I have no problem.
05:44 I am very calm. The only problem I have is that the team has to play better.
05:49 Hello, good evening. Miguel Ángel Ara, from Marca.
05:53 Nacho has said that he sometimes misses the Bernabeu more.
05:56 Is that balance complicated because of the criticism and the support of the team?
05:59 No, I don't think so. Our fans have always helped us and supported us.
06:07 We have spent a spectacular and historic night in this stadium.
06:13 Today has been, in some respects, a good night.
06:17 Hopefully, we will play another quarter-final in the Bernabeu.
06:23 We will have a spectacular atmosphere.
06:26 Good evening, Jose Luis Sánchez.
06:32 I wanted to ask you about Vinicius.
06:34 Today we have seen his two faces.
06:36 A decisive goal in the tie and he could have been sent off.
06:40 How did you see that action and how can you contain the heat from Vinicius, which could have cost the team?
06:47 I saw the goalkeeper, who was spectacular.
06:52 The pass, the shot, the shot.
06:56 Then the clash, I think he pushed a little hard.
07:01 It didn't seem like a red card.
07:08 Good evening, Olivia Lorenzo from El País.
07:10 The team has been a little more stuck lately with some draws and Salvador.
07:17 If you had to say what the team should improve or what it has lost from its best moment in the end of 2023, what would it be?
07:27 I think a little bit of freshness.
07:29 We have lost a little less control, less verticality in the play.
07:37 A position that is too loose, slow.
07:41 I think that is what we have to recover soon.
07:47 I think we have two games left after the break.
07:51 I think that also at the break, if many players go with the national team, we have time to unload a little mentally.
08:05 I think the team is a little tired mentally at the moment.
08:09 We have to hold on for the two games and I think that after the break we will be better.
08:14 We may have a military shortfall or in the quarterfinals.
08:19 This is good news.
08:21 How about Carlos, here on your left, Ruben Cañizares from ABC.
08:25 You said that the team you put in today was to put pressure on, to have energy, which has not happened.
08:31 But why did you do it with a 4-3-3, which is a system that you have already decided to change to 4-4-2 in the summer.
08:38 Couldn't you do that energy initiative of pressing up with the 4-4-2?
08:43 Because on the day that Madrid plays the Champions League quarterfinals, you return to the old system.
08:48 On a defensive level, what was important for us was to have control of Simons and Olmo with the two inside players, Chuamini and Camavinga.
09:03 This was because there was the danger in the first leg.
09:12 We have opted for a 4-3-3 to have control and leave the opportunity to Kroos, who played as a pivot, to get a little further.
09:21 The truth is that they handled the exit from behind well with the two central defenders and with the two inside players.
09:31 This created problems for us and we have been able to put a higher pressure.
09:36 We ask the last two questions.
09:38 Martín, you said that Camavinga was the first change you made in the break.
09:45 You said yesterday that Camavinga could play with Chuamini, but he was better in the first half of the game.
09:52 Why that change and what has been missing?
09:56 We have changed the system. We have put a forward, Rodrigo.
10:01 We have changed the midfield line-up with Chuamini and Kroos as pivots.
10:09 Bellingham on the left and Valverde on the right.
10:11 It has been a tactical change.
10:13 We had to change what we have not played well.
10:16 We had to change the coach on the bench.
10:21 Last question.
10:23 Hi, I don't know if you have had time to look at the new Champions League format in the last few hours.
10:32 Do you like it?
10:34 I know it more or less.
10:39 I think that all the formulas that put more games in the season are wrong.
10:52 Thank you.
10:54 out.
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