Carlo Ancelotti spoke again about Vinícius, who this Thursday gave a statement in court regarding the Mestalla incidents last season and who is accused by a sector of the Valencia press of lying before the judge. The Reggiolo coach came out in defense of the Brazilian attacker and made it clear that the Fluminense would play against the team that played the match on this date: «Yes, of course yes, of course. Something has happened. Here you try to deflect the shot. The point is that Vinicius has been the victim of racial insults,” he commented with a serious gesture.
«It doesn’t matter if they were one or ten. There is a judicial procedure. There are media that want to divert attention from this and it makes me sad and angry.” criticized the Italian, who said he had not spoken with the player about his statement but that he is “very well, very motivated and happy to play against Osasuna this Saturday (4:15 p.m. / Movistar +).
In strictly football terms, the coach stressed the importance of the duel against Jagoba Arrasate’s men, who will not sit on the bench at the remodeled Bernabéu as he serves his second game of suspension after being sent off in the match between the Navarrese team and Atlético from Madrid. «We want to finish this first part of the season well, taking into account the difficulty of a team that we know well, which has always played good games here. It has been difficult for us, we have not beaten them the last two times. We will have to do our best to try to get the three points,” he stressed.
«We must play well, try to play fast football, with intensity, to try to find offensive solutions as soon as possible. They are a team that defends very well, they did so against us at the Bernabéu the last two seasons, and we expect the same. They will try to look for us out of position to hurt us, so we will have to attack well, with intelligence and avoiding risk behind,” said the transalpine coach, who was pleased with the connection between Bellingham, the unexpected hero in the ‘post-Benzema’ era, and Vinícius, who, back from the injury that kept him out of four games, resumes his fit in the new system in which he is forced to adapt due to the lack of a ‘9’. “If the combination between the two is good, we will have more success.”
2023-10-06 12:08:08
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