Ancelotti on Real's 2-0 Liverpool loss

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Ancelotti on Real's 2-0 Liverpool loss  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.

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