Ancelotti’s Fiery Admission: ‘We Didn’t Play Football in the First Half’—A Brutal Assessment of Real Madrid’s Performance

Coach Carlo Ancelotti was very disappointed with the home team’s performance after a 2-5 loss to Barca. He said that Real Madrid did not play football in the first half, and long passes were not the coaching staff’s idea.

The Italian coach frankly criticized the home team’s performance. Accordingly, Carletto only praised the brilliant performance of striker Kylian Mbappe, who scored a beautiful goal to open the score and then tried his best despite being in pain until the end of the match. Otherwise, it was a very disappointing night for Los Blancos.

“It was a bad night, a day of competition where we were as sad as all our fans. It is a huge disappointment, we must not hide this fact. But this is football, sometimes you have the ability to win and sometimes you have to learn from defeat. We must learn from failure. Let’s look ahead. We just need to look forward,” Carletto emphasized.

But according to Ancelotti, what happened to final Los Blancos in the 2024/25 Spanish Super Cup ? The Italian coach emphasized that Real did not play football in the first half and approached the match with pre-conceived ideas that were not reflected on the field.

“We defended poorly, which hurt us the whole game, they found the goal simply and we didn’t defend well. When pressed high or in low areas, I said that first we have to try to play the ball, but in the first half we didn’t play the ball, we kept playing the ball long but it wasn’t our idea. We could have lost the game but it wasn’t the way we played in the first half,” coach Ancelotti said more.