After 36 games without losing, the Real Madrid players fell to Lille after a perfectly insipid match on their part. And if Bruno Génésio’s men, formidable from start to finish on Wednesday evening, have something to do with it, in Spain, we mainly remember the rout of the Merengues. Marca spoke of a “dark night” for the Ancelotti squad and pointed out a team “flat and without ideas for 85 minutes”.
On the side of Acewe do not hesitate to write that “nothing is as before”, with the unreplaced departure of Toni Kroos in the middle and an offensive animation disrupted by the arrival of Kylian Mbappé. “Vinicius is no longer Vinicius and Bellingham is no longer Bellingham,” continues the Madrid daily, which notes that the England international, dazzling last season, is struggling to shine due to his repositioning to make room for Mbappé.
“Everything was pretty bad,” admits Ancelotti
And we are not talking to you about the state of our friends at Chiringuito, who had difficulty recovering from this defeat on the European scene. One of the chroniclers of the craziest show on the Spanish audiovisual landscape has downright “one of his worst matches in Europe in a long time”. “Real has hit rock bottom, it’s a cure for humility,” said another in the same tone.
Carlo Ancelotti didn’t say much else after the match either. “It’s difficult to evaluate the match, everything was rather bad,” declared the Italian technician at a press conference. Fortunately, it hasn’t happened to us often lately that the opponent is better than us and deserves to win. Of course, we could have equalized at the end of the match with the chances we had, but it would not have been deserved. You have to learn, as was the case last year, to improve. »