Carlo Ancelotti read the Riot Act on his fantastic line before at the half -time of Madrid Derby on Saturday – either we play according to the plan, or there will be immediate changes, was the message.
He was received loud and clear and for the goalkeeper of Jan Oblak of Atletico Madrid, a superb second half of Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo, Kylian Mbappe and in particular Jude Bellingham would have won Real Madrid’s victory instead of A 1-1 draw.
Tuesday at Etihad, the hottest attack in European football (60 goals between them in all competitions this season) is not convincing of Manchester City. He should swing this stage of the Champions League in favor of the Spanish champions, but there are doubts and concerns.
Bellingham is the fanfaron leader of the quartet, but flirted by crossing the line between the bravado and the indiscipline during his second season at La Liga and – with Aurelien Tchouameni, Luka Modric and Eduardo Camavonga – He will miss the second leg if she is reserved.
There is also the concern for the way the largest team of Madrid can be made to pay the trend of their talented attackers not to work as ancelotti requirements. Without a defensive injury crisis, the Italian would probably opt for not choosing his four star attackers against the Pep Guardiola team.
Bellingham’s place is not to be discussed. There remains the beating heart of the team and the captain without the armband. The tradition dictates that the player who played the most games for the skippers of the club the team, but it was not for that, the 21 -year -old would lead the team to Etihad on Tuesday.
Jude Bellingham had a classified explosion in a line judge during the draw on Saturday with Atletico Madrid
The midfielder was livid with a close return call and reprimanded the match manager
Bellingham also led complaints to the referee when a penalty was granted against his team
He certainly assured the captain’s responsibilities in terms of managers of the Haranguant match. The microphones by the pitch at the Bernabeu picked up on Saturday by balling the assistant of the referee with a salvo from ‘F *** you guy, f *** off’ after a return on him at only 11 minutes later. Another one. The player in another stadium would have been reserved for dissent.
He also led complaints to the referee after a severe sentence was granted against Madrid, this time with a more measured language. “It’s crazy, crazy, crazy,” he said and very soon the stadium sang in unison: “corruption in the federation (Spanish FA)”. These supporters love Jude’s great attitude.
The fact that he caught his crotch while he complained about the penalty referee and the withdrawal of Atletico Madrid, the central defender of the Uruguayan, Jose Gimenez, made fun of his “ hairstyle man -Bun ” did not escape the program of the reflections of Spanish television. All this adds to the legend that Bellingham began to write from the first day of last season when he marked in his beginnings and celebrated the most noisy San Mames stadium in the San Mames stadium.
“You don’t do that here,” he said by the sports captain then Iker Muniain. Bellingham has sneered over over-sensibilities. “ The Gusta El Barro ‘agreed experts who knew the strengths of the Real Madrid draw 1-1 with Atletico on Saturday evening. This literally translates: he likes mud and essentially means: he is not afraid to get his hands dirty.
He is not afraid of working either, but his three acolytes in these fantastic four do not always have the same appetite. The former Real Madrid player and Liga analyst Alvaro Benito said the weekend: “At the collective level, they do not work properly. They do not defend themselves well, they are disorganized, they find it difficult to press effectively and they do not find. He was asked why the Acelotti team had failed to win almost all their big games this season, losing twice against Barcelona, Milan and Liverpool.
On Saturday, Ancelotti was more unhappy with the movement of his attackers than their lack of sacrifice. Vinicius derived inside to look for the ball and therefore walked on the Mbappe toes. The Frenchman moved deeper to find space and therefore leaving Bellingham.
In the second half, Vinicius embraced the left side, Rodrygo on the right, and Mbappe and Bellingham struck the now stretched defense of Atletico for the goal which earned Madrid a point and kept them in the lead. “Bellingham dragged Madrid to the border final,” said Diario as “he imposed the tempo in the second half”.
The fact that Madrid cannot go beyond this border and obtain the victory leaves them with only one gap of one and two points on Atletico and Barcelona in the second and third placed.
Carlo Ancelotti threatened to remove his star trio Jude Bellingham (left), Kylian Mbappe (second on the left) and Vinicius Jr (right) for “ Waging War ” each other in first half
Bellingham remains the beating heart of the team and the Real Madrid captain without the armband
With four defenders of the first injured team (Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, Antonio Rudiger and David Alaba), the last thing they needed was this additional turn and against the team they still consider their biggest rivals in Europe .
At one end of the field this evening, they will have a 21 -year -old defender, Raul Asencio, whom City Group tried to sign and send to Girona last summer, alongside a Tchouameni midfielder in the center of the defense.
At the other end of the field, they have four scary talents. Ancelotti thinks they will make the difference on both legs, but they must remain within the limits of his plan, and Bellingham must remain outside the book of the Clement Turpin referee.
They need him on Tuesday evening, but they will need him even more next week.