MADRID (AFP) – Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti dismissed doubts about his team and tactical set-up yesterday after they fell to their first defeat of the season in the Madrid derby.
Los Blancos won their first six games, five in La Liga and one in the Champions League, but were comfortably beaten 3-1 by rivals Atletico Madrid on Sunday at the Metropolitano.
“I have to evaluate things with balance, equilibrium is important – luckily in my genetics I have that,” Ancelotti told a news conference.
“Putting everything in doubt when you’ve won six games out of seven, it seems a bit rash.”
The coach said Madrid needed to be self-critical after stumbling against Atletico but that he had made “a different evaluation” to many of his critics.
