Carlo Ancelotti has been thinking for months about the best way to fit the club’s pieces on the field, that is, Florentino Pérez and José Ángel Sánchez, have made available to you. It is not the squad that he would have made, since he has plenty of midfielders and is missing at least one reference forward and a center back to cover the long absence of Militao. But that’s what there is. He knows it and he assumes it.
The rhombus in the center of the field was the cornerstone on which he worked during the preseason and the one he has arranged in all the games of the course… until the one in Girona. In Montilivi, Ancelotti decided to break the diamond and the result was extraordinary, a 0-3 that leaves the whites leaders.
Madrid’s battery of midfielders
The idea Ancelotti was working on was clear. Tchouaméni was going to be the reference pivot this course, with Kroos y Camavinga as alternatives. For the two interior positions it had a wide range of options. (Valverde, Camavinga, Kroos, Modric and Ceballos) y Bellingham I would close that diamond as a midfielder.
The problem that Carletto has encountered is that this scheme requires a great physical deployment of the two interior players to cover the entire team in defense. Valverde and Camavinga They respond to that profile, but Kroos y Modric The mission is choking on them, already in the final stretch of their careers.
Added to that is that Fran Garcia, the bet for the left back, you can see the defensive seams. Just like what happened to Lucas Vazquez in the Metropolitano, on the day of the shipwreck of the rhombus. Against UD Las Palmas he maintained it, in a duel with an a priori lower demand, but in Girona he has chosen to amend himself.
He again had four midfielders, but they were placed in a line, with Valverde covering the right side and Bellingham the left, standing Tchouaméni y Kroos in parallel, in a traditional double pivot. ModricBy the way, he didn’t play a minute and Ancelotti only made four substitutions. Striking.
Ancelotti’s explanation
“We have put Bellingham on the outside to avoid defensive work for Vinicius“He later explained to Ancelotti, who did not want to overexert the Brazilian in his first start after a month of injury. “Tchouaméni “He was very close to the centre-backs to avoid breakdowns and that is why he has also played a little more on the outside,” he elaborated on the Englishman. “I have the freedom to play my football, I am very happy,” he said.
The success of the experiment adds to the great performance offered by Camavinga on the left side. Ancelotti had said that he only planned to delay the Frenchman again in case of emergency, but against Girona that was not the case, as they were both available. Fran Garcia as Mendy.
“I wanted to place Vinicius on the outside and needed a winger like Camavinga from behind to maintain the position, hold on better and press better after a loss,” argued the Italian after the duel, leaving the aroma that the Frenchman will repeat more often on the left side of the defense.
The reality is that the Frenchman doesn’t really like the full-back position, but the evidence is clear: it is where he offers the best performance. A week ago, in fact, he played as a positional pivot against Atlético and looked like another player, much worse than the one seen in Girona, in a game in which he was immense.
“Nacho lacks lucidity”
Everything turned out perfectly, in short, for Ancelotti, whose expression only twisted when talking about the brutal entrance of Nacho a Port in the match discount. “He has lacked lucidity,” said Carletto without hesitation, who said that Nacho was aware that he had made a mistake and that he had apologized to his rival. “No one has to have doubts about him, he is usually very correct, but he has lacked lucidity,” he acknowledged.
2023-09-30 20:16:22
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