Carvalhal: “Ancelotti is one of the most important people in football”

Carlos Carvalhalcoach of Celta VigoThis Friday did not hide the difficulty of breaking the real Madrid in Santiago bernabeuwhere his team had to sign “a great night” to meet again with victory four days later.

“This is a game with the highest demands, perhaps the most difficult of the season with the Camp Nou,” said the sky-blue coach, who asked his players for “ambition” to face this challenge: “Only by of being at the top can we take advantage of a bad night from Real Madrid. They have immense quality and a great coach. As long as there is one percent chance, there must be one hundred percent ambition.”

In this sense, he said that he does not expect “any kind of facility” from the white team, where he sees “enormous positive points, individually and collectively” but also “some weaknesses”.

“I remember the year with Braga, which also had a big distance between the club and the teams fighting for the title, and we won against Porto, Benfica and Sporting. The main thing is to believe that a positive result is can achieve, and then work hard. Also hope that there is no inspired night and the opponent is a little lucky”, he stressed.

He recognized the importance of the casualties Hugo Mallo, Joseph Aidoo, Carles Perez and Minguezabut at the same time he said that in the squad he has “other options” to form a competitive eleven in Santiago Bernabeu.

“We have our identity, which is a little chameleon depending on the opponent’s style,” he said. carvalhal, who praised the work of Italian Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid: “He is a great coach. Many times it is said that it is very easy to train Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​​​Liverpool, City… but it is not so.”

“To coach this type of team -he continued – you have to be a very special person. The tactical part is very important, but to train these teams it is more important to know how to manage egos . He (Ancelotti) is one of the most important people in football,” he said.