Carlo Ancelotti does not interpret Real Madrid's triumph in the classic cup cup at the Camp Nou, the second largest in Barcelona's history, as a vindication and assured that after directing "1,272 games", he does not "have to prove anything to nobody".
"I looked by chance the other day at the number of games before Barcelona. I didn't know what the number was but I thought it was close to 1,300 and when it arrives I'll have to celebrate a bit," he said at a press conference.
"What I think is that after 1,272 games, I don't have to prove anything to anyone. Everyone knows me and can evaluate me, but I don't have to prove anything to anyone," he said.
Despite the 0-4 win at the Camp Nou, Ancelotti did not look particularly happy after days in which he heard that if he did not win a title considered among the big three, he would not continue in charge of Real Madrid. The Italian coach explained the reason for his behavior after feeling so much pressure.
"I am very well, calm, excited and highly motivated because the team is in good shape. My mood depends a lot on how the team is. I see it very well and on a personal level I am the same, I have no problems. Sometimes, after the game, one "He's so tired that you just want to stay calm. In a game like Wednesday there's a lot of pressure before and during, and when it's over you get tired and you just want to rest," he explained.
With his experience, Ancelotti admits criticism and understands that many people doubted his continuity. "It doesn't surprise me (the doubt). It's our job. We're in the spotlight, it's quite normal and I don't have any problem."
Hours after one of the most important victories of the season and with the best second part of the course, Ancelotti confessed that the day off he gave the team and that his players celebrated so much in the visiting dressing room at the Camp Nou, he took advantage of it to go with his wife "to the country house by bike".
The one-season renewal of the contracts that expire next June for the German Toni Kroos and the Croatian Luka Modric is one step closer, according to their coach, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, who assured "there is progress" between Real Madrid and the two midfielders who have marked an era.
"There is progress because they are talking and I think that in the end a solution will be found," Ancelotti acknowledged with a smile that showed that he knew more than he could say publicly at a press conference.
"I see veterans as always. They can have moments of better or worse level during a season, it's quite normal and it happens to all players, but we have to evaluate them not by age, but by what they do. You can think about Physically, they don't have the energy of young people, but the way the three of them handle matches is unique and can't be bought in any market in the world. Experience takes something away from you but it also gives you and it has shaped them to manage the parties", argued.
The Brazilian striker Rodrygo Goes did not complete the entire training session with his Real Madrid teammates and when he stepped onto the pitch he was seen wearing protection on his right knee, which according to his coach, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, will not prevent him from playing against the Villarreal in the twenty-eighth day of LaLiga Santander.
It was the image of the morning in Valdebebas, the addition of Rodrygo to the rounds with protection on his right knee after settling in the first minutes of warm-up on the pitch.
