Chris DaviePublished Nov 6, 2024, 1:43am|Updated Nov 6, 2024, 1:45am
Federico Valverde’s woman deed retired astatine Carlo Ancelotti during Real Madrid’s 3-1 decision astatine location to AC Milan successful the Champions League connected Tuesday evening.
Malick Thiaw gave Milan an aboriginal pb astatine the Santiago Bernabeu earlier Vinicius Junior equalised for the hosts from the punishment spot. Alvaro Morata past recovered the nett against his erstwhile nine earlier the break, portion Tijjani Reijnders scored his 4th extremity successful 3 games to seal Milan’s triumph successful the 2nd half.
Valverde started the crippled connected Madrid’s close flank but the Uruguay planetary was replaced astatine fractional time. Aurelien Tchouameni, who was being whistled by Madrid fans successful the archetypal fractional astatine the Bernabeu, was besides substituted astatine the break.
During the match, Valverde’s wife, Mina Bonino, made it wide that she was unhappy with Ancelotti’s determination to play her husband, a cardinal midfielder, successful a wider relation for Madrid.
In effect to a Madrid instrumentality connected X, Bonino wrote: ‘Fede plays champion arsenic a midfielder.
‘What are you talking about? When are they going to recognize erstwhile and for each that Fede isn’t a winger?’
When different idiosyncratic connected X criticised Valverde for his portion successful Morata’s extremity for Milan, Bonino replied: ‘He’s playing arsenic a winger. Did you know? Because I ne'er spot forwards being reproached for not dropping back, but the idiot who is everyplace is.’
Asked astir Bonino’s comments aft Madrid’s defeat, Ancelotti said: ‘From what radical deliberation connected societal media… for maine it’s precise complicated.
‘I took him disconnected due to the fact that for maine helium wasn’t 100 per cent, helium had backmost problems, it seemed similar helium had recovered due to the fact that helium trained good yesterday but it seemed similar helium wasn’t astatine his champion carnal level, that’s wherefore I changed him.’
The decision to Milan has near Madrid successful the play-off places successful the Champions League league array and Ancelotti’s broadside look Liverpool astatine Anfield successful their adjacent European crippled connected November 27.
‘The squad is not playing its champion and we are each to blame. It is precise important that we each instrumentality responsibility,’ Ancelotti said.
‘Because conscionable arsenic erstwhile we win, we each bash it, erstwhile we person to endure and fight, we bash it too. We summation spot from situations similar this.
‘The dressing country is healthy. Obviously determination volition beryllium a batch of disapproval now, particularly astir the attitude, the grooming sessions… but this has happened galore times successful the past. And what radical think, we person to judge it.
‘We person to judge the reality, that we are not doing good present and we person to bash better. Because it is precise hard to get to the extremity of the play similar this. We person to hole things, I repeat, we person to support amended due to the fact that that is the key.
‘There whitethorn beryllium immoderate solutions successful tactical details but without going brainsick making changes.
‘Of people we request to amended tactically. As I said, the occupation is not an idiosyncratic one. Defensive enactment is astir sacrifice, attraction and corporate effort.’
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