Carlo Ancelotti hit out at his Real Madrid players for executing his game plan after they beat Barcelona in the Super Cup final on Sunday.
Despite entering the match in much better shape than their opponents, Madrid completely embarrassed themselves because Barcelona won 5-2 – a result that would probably have been worse for Los Blancos had Barca not seen goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny sent off early in the second half, when they were already 5-1 up.
It was a bitterly disappointing performance Madridand Ancelotti claimed it was the exact opposite of what he had drawn.
We defended poorly, that hurt us in the game, they scored goals easily, and we didn’t defend well in high pressing or in low blocks, he said.
“At half time I said that we have to try to play football first because in the first half we didn’t play football, we hit long balls, but that wasn’t the idea, the idea was to play and we didn’t play. He told them that they can lose games, but not the way we played in the first half.”
Luka Modric, the only Madrid player to speak to the media after the game, refused to criticize Ancelotti’s approach to the game.
“Now we have to work and correct our mistakes,” said the midfielder. “We didn’t play a good game, Barca was better and that’s it.”
Modrić continued: “It’s not nice when your biggest rival scores nine goals in two games. I think we’ll react, I’m sure. We didn’t think we’d have a game like this and we feel sorry for the fans and now it’s time to stay united and work hard, sure alone that we will bring a lot of joy during the season, we still have a long way to go.
“If we have to lose the final… this is better. This is football and in football there are wins and losses. This time we lost. It’s never nice to lose, but if we have to choose defeat, it’s better in the Super Cup. We have to congratulate Barcelonabecause they were better and that’s it.”
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