El Real Madrid need the music Champions. It is a reality, not one of those legends that surround the club of the 14 continental crowns. A week ago, the world surrendered and was amazed at a team that on a stage like Anfield he was able to turn a 2-0 down into a powerful display and almost the entire ticket was taken to the quarterfinals.
A week later, the fire lit in Anfield by those of Ancelotti seems subdued after crossing paths with his two great domestic rivals, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.
Saturday was a draw against those of Simeonesweetened by the defeat of the Barcelona in Almeria and excused with the effort made against those of Klopp. But the defeat against Barcelona it lacked grips for whites. The motivation, as Ancelotti explained in the preview of the game, was maximum because it was a semifinal and the title was smelled. The rival arrived with the weight of an unexpected defeat and with great casualties, cases of Lewandowski, Pedri and Dembele. And before this scenario, Madrid goes to the Camp Nou with a defeat and the obligation to win to be on May 6 in La Cartuja.
Copa del Rey (semifinals first leg): summary and goal for Real Madrid 0-1 Barcelona
Said Ancelotti after the game that he was satisfied and that if the team repeated the same game in the Camp Nou looked in the final. A way of seeing the glass half full, a half truth. Because the Madrid add two games without the forcefulness in the rival area that walks through Europe. And without that it is very difficult to reach the great heights.
The sensations left by those of Ancelotti in these two games after the rout in Liverpool intensify the impression that all the meat that has the Madrid will be put, once again, on winning the Champions.
It is a bet that for others could be seen as crazy, but in the White House it is something that has happened so many times that no one can classify it as Russian roulette.
Champions League (Eighth, first leg): Summary and goals for Liverpool 2-5 Real Madrid
In addition to the weight of defeat in a semifinal, the Madrid Last night he left the feeling that his ability to do damage has nothing to do with what he shows in Europe. A game without shots on goal for Real Madrid is as devastating as it is extraordinary.
without the chords Champions, Madrid is another. The white gaze is more and more fixed on istanbul and in that final on June 10.
Ancelotti’s life
The all to the Champions is a path that Ancelotti has traveled many times. The two that he won as a player at Milan (1989 and 1990) were in seasons in which Serie A and the Italian Cup did not want to know anything in code rossonera. In the first, he finished 12 points behind Inter and in the second he stayed in the fight until the end, but gave it up for two points against the Naples of Maradona. In the Coppa he beat it in 1989 (he lost in the second group stage) and was a finalist a year later, losing to the Juventus.
The day that AC Milan knocked down Real Madrid with a tough 5-0
As a coach, Ancelotti twice took the Champions League to number 3 of the Milanese Via Filippo Turati: 2003 and 2007. Third and 11 points behind the Juventus was the Milan in 02-03; four years later he was fourth, 36 behind Inter, of which 15 were due to an administrative sanction. He was Cup champion in 2003 and in 2007 he fell in the semis.
What happened last season, with the double Liga-ChampionsIt was a new experience for an Ancelotti who in his first season at Madrid (2013-14) did not go far from the long-awaited treble in the White House. one was missing Liga in which his team was not able to engage when Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid (champion) He was given options to do so. Since March the focus had been on Cup and Championsand the two titles ended up in the white museum.
In 2014-15, the Madrid said goodbye to the Cup in January, fought against the League Barcelona until on matchday 36 he slipped at home (2-2, against Valencia) and the Champions he escaped in the semifinals against Juventus from a Morata which marked in Turin and in Madrid.
Now him Real Madrid faces the decisive stretch in a bad position in LaLiga and in the Cup, but sowing panic when the music of the Champions.
