I’ve been with the irritated pen for four days, with a tremendous desire to relieve the anger that I carry inside. I’m lucky, he AS Journal it allows me to write on its pages twice a week and I know of no better therapy than this modest column. He said Xavi Hernandez Thursday after the draw Barca in front of Naples: “The truth is that six years ago I left a Camp Nou different”. However, there are things that do not change in Spanish football and more specifically in Madrid. I’m talking about this Pavlovian reflex of blaming, attacking, not to say tearing apart, the coach every time an adverse result comes up. The campaign against Carlo Ancelotti started as soon as the game ended Paris last Tuesday, after Kylian Mbappe scored the only goal of the match. Yes, a goal. We are not regretting a little hand against but a simple defeat in added time that leaves Madrid with an obvious chance of qualifying.
The white team suffered, it is true, but against a club that now has many more resources. You just have to remember that Madrid’s first change was the entry of Lucas Vazquez, Meanwhile he PSG put on the lawn to…Neymar! The Parisian squad is vastly superior to the Madrid squad and whoever is unable to recognize this lacks knowledge or honesty. Ancelotti did what he could with what he had against PSG. Thats the reality.