Football schedule “absurd” and “unsustainable”
According to Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who called the football schedule “absurd” and “unsustainable”, has congratulated his team for performing well considering its full schedule.
Ancelotti was quite pleased with his team’s performance against Villarreal, citing the effort they put in against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League just three days prior.
“The team was able to withstand the difficult moment, which was in the first part of both halves. Then little by little we started to handle the ball better and we looked for opportunities. Two goals came from Mbappe, and some counter-attacks that could have been better in the second half.”
“I’m very proud. It was a trap game, because of everything that happened, because of the hours of rest and because of the strength of the opponent, who are a good team, but we watered down physically. The team ended up exhausted, it’s quite normal. It’s a victory that says a lot about this team and the resources of this squad.”
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“Taking into account the absurd calendar we have to deal with, that all teams have to, not just us, we’re doing very well,” Ancelotti told reporters.
“All teams that are fighting and battling in these moments are doing very well, because it’s an unsustainable calendar.”
We won’t play if it happens again
Given that his team had fewer than 72 hours between the two games, Ancelotti was quite unhappy that the Villarreal game was scheduled for Saturday. He made it clear to La Liga that this cannot happen again.
“The explanation is that this team has something special, character, commitment, they can’t always do it, sometimes I even get angry with them. We must thank these players for their enormous effort since January 3. Even more so today. It’s the last time we’re going to play before 72 hours. We are never going to do it again. We have asked La Liga twice to change the schedule and nothing has happened. This is the last time we played a game without 72 hours of rest. We won’t play if it happens again.”
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