According to the Tasnim news agency, Carlo Ancelotti, whose team under his leadership last night (Friday) in the third week of the Spanish La Liga managed to get a 1-0 advantage at Celta Vigo’s house and continue the process of winning 100% in this competition, praised after this match. He said about his English midfielder, who scored in this game as in the previous two games: Bellingham is doing very well, he continues to score and helps the team. Scoring is not his greatest attribute but he works well. Bellingham works well without the ball, is intelligent and has good timing in the flow of the game. He has many abilities behind the opponent’s penalty area.
He also said about his Brazilian winger, who pulled him out due to injury in the 18th minute and sent Khoslo on the field in his place: Vinicius Jr. felt pain in the first half, and that’s why we replaced him. We will see how his injury is in the next hour, but Vinicius has a sore leg muscle. He wanted to continue playing and I don’t think his injury is too serious.
“Vinicius tried to continue playing, but the pain was a bit too much, so we decided to replace him,” Carletto added. I don’t think Vinicius will play against Getafe. The rest will help him recover for when we play again. He had a good start to the game, looked unstoppable, so his injury is a shame. It was more difficult for us to score without him, but that was also because Celta Vigo defended very well.
Ancelotti also commented on Rodrigo’s missed penalty: “I don’t know what happened in the penalty area. I told Valverde that Modric should take the penalty and I don’t know what happened between them. Vinicius was not on the field, he was the one who was supposed to take the penalty. They decided between themselves that Rodrigo should stand behind the penalty kick because I don’t think Valverde can tell Modric that he should take it. This pissed me off a bit but it could have been a misunderstanding. I don’t think Valverde had a chance to tell them that. I will look into this in the next few days.
The head coach of Real Madrid said about his new goalkeeper, who played his first game for this team last night: “Kepa played well, we had a little problem in the defense line at the beginning and it was difficult for us, but the team played well overall.” Keeping the gate closed is a good sign. This victory was not based solely on team quality, but on team commitment. There were some negative points in our game, but we fought until the end.
He also emphasized about Celta Vigo’s disallowed goal: I saw that one of the opposing players was holding Kepa’s shirt, and I think it was clear that the goal was disallowed.
In the end, Ancelotti said about the possibility of recruiting a new striker: This team proves that it is complete. We can win without Courtois, Militao, Karim Benzema and Vinicius. This shows that a good team has been assembled. They did their job well.
With their third consecutive win in the new La Liga season, Real Madrid is now the leader of this competition with 9 points.