Ancelotti on Real's 2-0 Liverpool loss
27/11/2024
Anfield, Liverpool, UK
27/11/2024
Anfield, Liverpool, UK
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00:00MODERATOR Good evening, and we're beginning the press conference now.
00:15Please remember to identify yourself with the name and the company that you represent.
00:23Good evening. From outside it looked like you'd done everything that you could but couldn't
00:32offer anything more as a team. What are your feelings on the game? I think Liverpool were
00:37playing really well in the second half, it was unfortunate, but I'm happy for them. Was
00:40this the right result?
00:41I think that, to be totally honest with you, it was a fair result. Liverpool deserve to
00:49win. They have a real good dynamic at the moment, they're in great form. They really switched
00:56on, came to play in the right sense of intensity. We did okay in the first half, we held them,
01:02we set up quite well, we defended well as a unit. We tried to create our own opportunities
01:07as well. In transitions we were okay, in the breakdowns in play, but then we lost the ball
01:14in the breakdowns, we made the wrong decisions when we were going for the final ball as well.
01:20But we fought right up until the point of the penalty, I think. If we could have evened
01:26everything up after the penalty, we would have competed well up to that point. I'll
01:30stick with that, we competed well, but we've got to keep going. This is the road we're
01:35on at the moment, we've got to keep going. I'm going to be positive, I'm going to fight
01:38for everything. There are things that we have to improve, of course. We will improve, and
01:47nothing more really. I agree with you.
01:54You said that you'd managed more than 1,000 games, dealt with stars and players throughout
02:01your career. How can you get a team to recuperate and to get better when everyone seems really
02:08low on confidence? This has happened before in my career many times. I think forwards,
02:15you know when you're a striker, you want to score to get that bit of confidence, you're
02:19going to be disappointed in yourself when you don't do that.
02:23I think that there's a medicine which is... I think it's a difficult moment for him. I
02:38think Mbappé, it's a difficult moment for him, we've got to support him. We've got to
02:43give him our support and our love. He'll soon be fine.
02:52What about Mbappé? He's missing chances, then he missed the penalty today. Have you
03:00seen him in certain build-ups, certain plays? Is he connecting well with his team-mates?
03:06He looks a bit clumsy at times, you know. In PSG, he connected well with his team-mates,
03:13he looked well. Is it a lack of confidence? It could be a lack of confidence, maybe.
03:19Sometimes, when you have moments in the game when things aren't quite working out for you,
03:26the idea is to just keep things simple, don't complicate life. I think he's going through
03:34that, particularly at the moment. These moments you get through them, you know. You don't
03:40need to blame someone for just missing a penalty. People miss penalties, you know, it happens
03:44a lot. You can't put too much grief on him for that.
03:52Do you think the set-up was correct today? How are you tackling the set-up?
03:56I think it was good. I think we defended well. We allowed to keep the ball, we tried to
04:04employ the ball out from the back, get forward. In the second half, we maybe didn't take
04:11the right decisions. They were great in the second half.
04:20We're now 24th in this league, and it's the last qualifying place in terms of playoffs.
04:28You've got some games at home and some away games. Are you scared that you might actually
04:34be eliminated at this stage of the league?
04:39I think this game today was... It wasn't a decisive game in terms of our league position.
04:47So we're going to be top first in the first 24, as high as we can, and we'll compete
04:57in the Champions League in the next stages, like in previous years.
05:04I just want to keep talking about Mbappé.
05:11What's he like around the training ground? Are things working out for him there on the
05:16training pitch? It's just like he's really giving off a vibe of total, no confidence.
05:23Are there differences from when he first came in? Is he playing down the line?
05:29Do you think maybe he can play in a different position on the field, which would suit him more?
05:36What's he sort of vibes he's giving in the training ground?
05:40He works hard, he's going to keep working hard, fighting.
05:43We get through these moments, we certainly do.
05:46Mbappé pays so much attention to it.
05:50There are things he's not running through at the moment.
05:52He's got to get in the run of the ball.
05:54You've got to be patient with him.
05:55He's an extraordinary player, he's a fantastic player.
06:02Last run of the game today, four defeats this season.
06:08It seems like you've got injuries, everything's going against you every day.
06:12Camavinga now is the latest one.
06:16Is it kind of like a can of worms taking over?
06:19I don't think it's that different to last season.
06:21We've struggled less this season.
06:23We've had these similar problems before.
06:26We've got to find a way out of it.
06:28We'll do that again.
06:31Camavinga's injured now, he'll miss the next game.
06:34Maybe Rodrigo will be back to his main team after the next game.
06:38It's just a moment we've got to get through.
06:41It's a tough moment, but we've got to stick at it.
06:45We've got the experience of last season which we can draw upon
06:49where things turned out well and hopefully will this time around.
06:54Apart from tactical set-up today,
06:58what do you think about Ibrahim and Arda?
07:01They're not regular stars.
07:03How do you think they played on the stage like tonight?
07:06They're still young players.
07:07What do you think was missing from them?
07:11I think they did their jobs.
07:16They helped us a lot.
07:18They pressed the ball well.
07:22Arda did a good defensive job.
07:25He could have been more assertive at times.
07:33Maybe during the transition he got the ball.
07:35Maybe he could have taken better decisions.
07:37But they're very young.
07:38They just need experience.
07:41Nothing else.
07:46See you.