2023-10-17 08:00:42
Real Madrid is the leader of LaLiga with 24 points and just one defeat. Although symbolic, because it was against Atlético in the Madrid derby. That type of setbacks that in the ‘white house’ produce a tremor that lasts for weeks. However, the team did not notice it, stringing together solid matches in the domestic competition and coming back against Napoli in the Champions League.
Ancelotti has resolved the issue of injuries – some important, such as those of Courtois o Military– with successful innovations, but which have not completely convinced players like Rodrygo, Camavinga o Tchouaméni. Those ‘affected’ have taken advantage of the rallies with their teams to express their discontent. Always within a framework of correction and assuming their new roles. With another prism, Kroos y Modric They have regretted their reduction in prominence.
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Rodrygo: 21 shots on goal and a single goal
These are common manifestations in a top-level locker room, with which Carletto has dealt with for years. Furthermore, they are not inventions, they are useful solutions to specific problems. However, they arrive in a context in which Ancelotti is walking, for now successfully, during the season that will mean his goodbye from Real Madrid. But the Italian is more than making up for the structural problems such as the lack of a pure starting ‘9’, despite Joselu’s good performance.
Ancelotti’s intention was to work in a 4-4-2 with Vinicius and Rodrygo up front. The one from Santos was one of the big bets to pick up the bag of goals that Benzema took with him (42 last year). Last season he scored 19 and in the relief up front he was called to take a step forward. However, he is not achieving it. So far this season he has taken 21 shots on goal, of which eight have gone between the three sticks. Most of them were very focused, except for their only goal, against Athletic Club.
“I have always made it clear that I have the ability to play on the wings. I simply don’t like playing as ‘9’, although I have to do it at my club. Here, in the national team (Brazil), I can move all over the field, which helps my game. It’s important to do all of those things, as it increases your chances of not being replaced. It is fundamental for me,” Rodrygo defended in an appearance during this international window.
Camavinga: “I am a team player and I do what they ask me”
In the case of the advanced player, the peculiarity comes in that if the planned script is followed, his call for the ‘Canarinha’ will depend on Ancelotti himself. The position changes of the white coach have also been the subject of complaints from the two French internationals: Camavinga y Tchouaméni.
“Everyone knows, it’s no secret, that I don’t like playing as a winger. I spoke with Ancelotti, but the most relevant thing is the club. Since I’m a team player, I’ll be there if they ask me, even if I don’t like it. You don’t always get what you want, you have to know how to balance things,” Camavinga reasoned. The former Rennes player has played this season against Girona and against Naples in the Champions League in the rear
Ancelotti successfully breaks the rhombus and changes the role of Bellingham and Camavinga
He did it ahead of Ferland Mendy, the hypothetical starter at left back, but whose injuries and, consequently, his performance, have prevented him from being a permanent fixture. In the summer market, Real Madrid picked up Fran Garcia, who has just made his debut with the senior Spanish team. However, his performance does not convince Ancelotti for a context of three competitions.
Tchouaméni: “My father tells me that the media always goes backwards”
Camavinga was a substitute in the match against the Netherlands, precisely because for Deschamps his place is in the center of the field. Tchouaméni, his teammate at Real Madrid, the object of another successful innovation, sat him down. Against Osasuna, the former Monaco player came out as a center back due to the lack of resources. With Alaba in the last phase of recovery from his injury, Militao out for a long time and Nacho suspended, Carletto had no choice but to innovate.
Tchouaméni performed at a good level and added another record. Still, he hopes it is an exceptional situation. “My father (Fernand, a footballer who did not become a professional) He used to tell me that the media is going backwards little by little. She laughed a lot at the situation. I gave a pretty good performance, but I’m enjoying it more in the middle. Although it is possible that the team needs me in defense,” commented the least belligerent of the young people.
More constant and serious have been the laments of Luka Modricuncomfortable in a second row that sometimes results in the complete absence of minutes, like against Girona and UD Las Palmas. Ancelotti, always restrained, did not hesitate to confess that he is “angry”, an adjective that he used after Real Madrid’s victory in Naples where with the Croatian on the field the white team achieved its umpteenth European comeback.
Kroos’ “greatest rest” and Modric’s rhythm
Modric’s greater inactivity (391 minutes so far this season) is also affecting his team, Croatia. “Both he and Kovacic (Manchester City) are lacking pacebut they are our main advantage and we cannot afford to waste minutes,” acknowledged Zlatko Dalic, coach of the Balkan team, after losing against Turkey (0-1). Modric started and played the 90 minutes, like against Wales, who beat the chessmen 2-1.
After these two defeats, Croatia has gone from being co-leader of group D to third and not depend on herself to get into the Euro 2024 in Germany. A situation that has generated more unease in the Real Madrid midfielder. He will be at the event, because he belongs to the organizing country, his inseparable Toni Kroosalthough it is increasingly difficult to see them both on the field.
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“I try to prepare in the best way possible to be able to play like this. I’ve been here for a long time and it’s important to take care of my body every day. The rest will come because the quality with the ball is not lost so quickly. “I feel good and I also have more rest than normal,” said the German in an interview for Real Madrid TV.
His criticism, lighter, but just as public. A chorus of opposition to a model in constant reformulation like the one Ancelotti has to have. A dedicated high-level locker room manager who will have to put into practice, for the umpteenth time, the diplomacy of the minutes and the protagonisms.
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