Having failed two of his biggest tests this season, the future does not bode well for the Italian. Real Madrid lost to Barcelona 2-1 (though it would have been interesting to read all the media about Neymar’s “brilliance” and Martino’s “masterful tactics” had Ronaldo’s penalty been given and Neymar’s weak shot had not taken a deflection off Carvajal) and even though Real Madrid won against Juventus, it still was a weak performance.
A few (like me) would keep on wondering what Mourinho would have achieved with Real Madrid this season had he stayed. I think, for one, he would have managed Ozil very differently. Ozil is still a jerk to leave Real Madrid for Arsenal but I just think Mourinho would had found a way to keep both Bale and Ozil. Kaka’s transfer was justified. May be a rotation policy would have helped Benzema, Bale, Ozil and Di Maria.
Perhaps we should be content with the fact that Real Madrid has a complete squad. All that is required now is a good coach and a lot of effort on part of the players. Competition is now so fierce that you cannot rely on talent alone. You have to have good manager so to speak. Ancelotti is not a good manager by Real Madrid standards.
He still has not solved the problems that Mourinho had in his tenure. Benzema still looks out of place at Real Madrid and Bale’s Real Madrid career has, so far, not been up to the mark of a 100 million euro player .
Looking through some statistics of El Clasico, it turns out that Real Madrid had 46 percent of the ball. That is just 4 percent short of an even possession with Barcelona at Camp Nou. Cannot remember the last time that happened. It also points out to one thing.
Regardless of the Ronaldo penalty or Neymar’s luck, you cannot beat Barcelona (at least not consistently) by playing them at their own game. I think towards the end of his tenure, Mourinho had figured out Barcelona to perfection. The worst time to let him go was this season.
Ancelotti tried to play Real Madrid through the midfield a bit too much and did not take advantage of the fact that Real Madrid had more raw power and raw speed than Barcelona. Barcelona has more agility and control. They are also unmatched at short passing. Real Madrid’s gameplan should have been the same as before. Long balls to Ronaldo and Di Maria. Any other way, turns out the same result everytime no matter how unfortunate we think Real Madrid is or how fortunate Barcelona get in these games.
How much longer is Ancelotti going to wait to change his system. The current state of La Liga is despicable to say the least at the moment. That means that the title race is almost over because Barcelona is not going to lose any points. They might have a bad day and may draw but apart from that, 6 point gap in La Liga is like light years. Ancelotti might think he has a lot of time but the fact is that he doesn’t.
Only Champions League can save him now.
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People like you are harming Real Madrid for the last 10 years. Why you already want Ancelotti to go already? May I remind you that he has taken over for few months, with the dressing room quite split, thanks to Ramos, Casillas and people like you that all the time rant rant and rant.
May I remind you that Mourinho in the first year won nothing. Second year got us the league, 3rd year the press unsettled the dressing room and messed up the team.
Do you think that any manager can come and win everything in the first year also with the introduction of minimum 5 new players? Not even God can do it, neither Ancelotti, Zidane, Sir Alex and all big managers.
So ******** and let’s help the team to learn how to play together, rather than complaining about the manager and again unsettling the team.
Ozil: don’t think Ancelotti had any say on him – it was all engineered by Perez.
Bale is still recovering, and had no proper preseason. And even great players have their bad days. Messi against Real for example.
Saying that La Liga is already over, basically means do not watch any more games. If Barca won’t get more help from refs, they will drop points.
Ancelotti is still learning how to beat Barca. Maurinho lost the first 3 games with a big margin – do you remember? If we weren’t unlucky we could have easily got a draw. He may have done a mistake with Ramos, but he may have had his reasons to do so. Ramos should have refused too as a captain, so all in all it was a decision taken by everyone.
Let’s unite and stop asking questions on the capabilities on Ancelotti. He won 2 CLs anyway. If he leaves, who will manage then – God? You?
The team is playing better and better and once we fix the problems in the defense and upfront they start playing as a team – we will be invincibles – just give them more time.
Hala Madrid
I think you have not been following La liga if you call the current state of La Liga as despicable. What about Athletico Madrid/Villareal and if i am not mistaken Osasuna drew with Barca and both Valencia/Sevilla lost close games to Barca who need a favourable call from the referee to win against the latter. I think that La liga is at it most competitive for quite some time .
It’s not about who beat who. In the end, it is either going to be Real Madrid or Barcelona who wins the title. I said weak in relative terms. Weaker than BPL is the point of the post. May be even weaker than Serie A. Bunderliga and La Liga are the most boring leagues, not because teams are not good but because 1 or 2 teams are so strong that they crush the opposition to the extent that it becomes rather pointless to watch.
beaten again! stop crying, you were beaten by the better team accept it. stop blaming the ref and everyone else Barca had 2 penalty calls not given as well. You just cant get the ball in between the sticks. Also Jose lost 5 – 0 on his first try at the Camp Non your new guy did a little better. Move on you lost better luck next time….. hahahahahah
It seems this writer has been reading my posts. Over the past months I have been preaching that you can not beat this barca team to their passing game, they are very good when it comes to tikitaka and they also intelligent midfielders then madrid, people like xavi and iniesta, they know how to create chances for messi and the rest of their front men. Only one coach has figured out how to beat barc and that is mourihno and that is why they never happy with during his stay in spain, they had stuff to say all the time that he was destroying spanish football. I don’t know why no one is saying anything about Sammy kheidera’s stupidity, he had two brilliant chances that he needed to square to ronaldo and he wasted them, the chance was on the and blasted that off valdes, the second was from the rebound of bezenma shot, all he had to do is to head the ball to cr7 that was standing on his right but he force himself and headed the ball to valdes, skillful and intelligent players can create goals out of nothing, Jesse scored a goal from cr7 pass, lets put that in a reverse, hadn’t it been Jesse or isco he would have gone for goal and squandered the chance, these simple decisions making is what separating madrid from barca, lastly madrid crucified the best coach they had, mourinho and some of you in the media are responsible for some of these problems.
I agree with you on the point that perhaps only Mourinho could have ended Barcelona’s reign at the top for a long period of time. May be nobody wants that including some players in Real Madrid. I think Ramos along with Casillas (raul and guti before them) were nothing but troublemakers for Mourinho,. They both are good players but when it comes to listening to the coach and obeying, they suck .
Lets just hope for a Barcelona vs Chelsea in Champions League game and we’ll see what happens. I am always supporting former Real Madrid employees.