Only three months before the end of the season, this remains one of the main questions to which the Merengues come up against.
Ancelotti spoke for a long time the subject throughout the season, asking for defensive work several times to his four talented attackers. Although Bellingham has been more or less spared by this debate, Ancelotti's messages to his star players seem to have borne fruit only by brief occasions.
He briefly seemed to get there against Manchester City, the Merengues having swept away from the back of the hand the team of Pep Guardiola, and Ancelotti confirmed that he had a telephone conversation with his star players to discuss their defense. Rodrygo also confirmed publicly that Encelotti had threatened to put them on the bench if they did not work more.
Mbapppe suffered the Ancelotti thunderbolts
RadioMarca revealed part of the content of the interview that Encelotti granted to Mbappé, Vinicius and Rodrygo in February. The Italian coach spoke with his trio of stars in the aftermath of the 5-2 defeat against Barcelona in Spanish Super Cup. During this interview, he compared certain statistics between their defeat and the victory of Arsenal over Manchester City, won 5-1.
Ancelotti read the distance traveled by Leandro Trossard (10.85 km), Kai Havertz (10.85 km), Gabriele Martinelli and Bukayo Saka, which were between 11 and 13 km. He then discussed their distance statistics traveled against Barcelona: Vinicius (8.7 km), Mbappé (5 km), ” less than courteous “, Would have joked Ancelotti.
This clearly worked against Manchester City, but this message seems to be falling back into their minds, the whites bowing to Arsenal to the Emirates. Beyond this defeat against Arsenal, Real Madrid has received goals in recent times, having kept its invited cage only twice in its last 17 games.
