Coaches, in the manner and manner of footballers, are a world. There are them for all tastes and for all colors. Their luck depends more on their players, whether or not the ball enters the rival goal.
At the end of last year, after Real Madrid’s victory in Mendizorrotza with a goal from Lucas Vázquez against Alavés in injury time, the Italian coach was asked in the press room about his team’s possible rivals to fight for the title . League. Ancelotti first spoke about Míchel’s surprising Girona, then put Barça and Atlético in the same bag and surprised everyone and everything with his fourth candidate: “Watch out for Bilbao, who are playing well.”
It is surprising, in the beginning, that no one in the football environment responded to the coach of the merengue team for the name used to refer to Athletic. Bilbao in the mouth of the Italian coach does not sound as bad as every time Cholo Simeone has pronounced it for several years now. The first is tolerated because there seems to be no ill intention in his nomination. As to the second, however, there are certainties that he meant it.
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Ancelotti was wrong to point to Valverde’s team as one of Madrid’s direct rivals, but he was not wrong in his assessments even before the end of the first round. He saw very clearly then, what was not so clear even in these parts.
This afternoon’s classic at the Bernabéu starts with Real Madrid in the lead and Athletic in fourth position in the table. The whites maintain a 16 point difference over the rojiblanco. The lions, therefore, are not direct rivals in the fight for the title, but neither are Barça, Girona and Atlético. The Blaugrana are the closest to the Merengues, but have eight points less.
In any case, Ancelotti felt before anyone else that Valverde’s men would be included not only in Europe, but also in the Champions League.
Source: La Verdad
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