Tag: Carlo Ancelotti

Real Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti has on Saturday night provided early updates on the wellbeing of two leading members of his squad. This comes after both set alarm bells ringing in Los Blancos’ La Liga meeting with Real Sociedad. The Spanish champions are fresh off kicking their campaign back into gear, by way of a trip to San Sebastian to face Imanol’s Sociedad. When all was said and done, Real emerged on the right side of a 2-0 result, owing to a pair of penalties, on the part of Vinícius Jr, and Kylian Mbappé. On an otherwise positive evening’s work for the capital giants, however, a pair of concerns were also forthcoming, on the personnel front. After Brahim Díaz, first, was forced into a first-half departure from the action, Éder Militão then appeared to pick up a fitness proble...

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said on Thursday there was no excuse for his side's slow start to the La Liga season.Forward Vinicius Jr fired in a second-half penalty to cancel out Alberto Moleiro's early opener as the Spanish giants salvaged a nervy 1-1 draw. Ancelotti said he expected his team to play better together and blamed himself, saying that he needs to work harder and do a better job."It is clear that we are struggling to find the soundness of last season. But we must not look for excuses. The schedule is tight and we have to recover quickly as we have a game on Sunday," Ancelotti told a news conference. "I need to have a clearer strategy, to give the players more clarity in what I want. It's costing us more than we thought."After only one win in three matches to start...