Guardiola highlights City; Ancelotti angry with the referee

Pep Guardiola, coach at Manchester City, He assured this Tuesday that “quality” is not shown by “scoring goals”, he praised the game his players did against Real Madrid (1-1) and highlighted the effect of Antonio Rüdiger and David Alaba, which has completely dried Erling Haaland in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final.

“We were better in the first minutes. Quality is not shown by scoring goals. We were there and found a goal when Madrid I played better. That’s football. Now we know what we did. Maybe we adjust something and we have to find a balance and see if we can attack a little bit. Kudos to Rudiger too They were very close to Haaland and it was not easy to find a place for him. Maybe we have to adjust something in return. Play with a little more rhythm. We will be more comfortable with our people. Whoever wins goes to the finals,” he said.

Besides, he insisted on the match they did Alaba and Rudiger and recognized that when he Real Madrid hI put up a high pressure, you had to send the ball Haaland in a more direct way. And there were always two defenders of Real Madrid: “The two closed very well. They are fast and good defenders. It was not easy to find him. Madrid defended very well. It was not easy,” he repeated.

For Guardiola, iThe goal of his team now is to “recover” and go “game by game”, and he said the result (1-1) was good because he was aware that achieving a comprehensive result in Bernabeu it was very complicated.

“I would have liked to win, of course. I didn’t expect to play the game we did, I didn’t expect to win by a big margin. They have the ability to gather you in one place and then go the other way. It’s hard to counter,” he said.

“I’m very happy with the game we played and the result. I know against the team we played, I saw it last year. I’m very, very happy with our team. In the return game I might have minutes JJulian Alvarez.”, completed

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Carlo Ancelotti, t.Italian technician Real Madrid, In his appearance before the media, he condemned that Manchester City’s equalizing goal was illegal, as he defended that the ball “was out” and criticized that “the referee was not too careful”.

“It was out there, I don’t say that, the technology says, but they didn’t control it well. The 1-0 win didn’t change the picture much. The referee wasn’t too careful and took a card that I didn’t play. The players deserved more cards on the field, and not me who was outside,” he assured.

The Italian coach was in disbelief after insisting he could see a television image showing the ball leaving the pitch, very close to his technical area, but that no one had informed the referee. “We confirmed that the ball went out. We saw it on Bein Sport, not with VAR technology because if it didn’t, I didn’t see it,” he criticized.

Despite playing the final King’s Cup and have less than 72 hours between games,’Carletto’ He was satisfied with the physical level of his players.

“Considering that we played on Saturday at midnight, the team recovered very well and physically played a very complete game. Now we have more time to recover well for Wednesday’s game,” he said. making it clear that there will be a good chunk of his titles against Getafe on Saturday.

For ancelottihe Real Madrid He “deserved to win” the game and leaves with “good feelings” ahead of the second game. “It’s normal for City to have possession of the ball, but we can’t go crazy because we know sooner or later there can be a chance to score. We played very good football, we had chances and we’re happy with our game. We hope we can repeat that at the Etihad.” .

“We were not patient at the beginning of the first half, we could do much better with the ball as in the second half, we were more patient and we found places that we could have found in the first as well,” he said. he added in his analysis.

Movie premiere Erling Haaland in it Santiago Bernabeuand ran into a solid marking from Antonio Rudiger, praised by his coach. “He played a fantastic game that must stand out like everyone else. We played very well in defense. They didn’t create many opportunities for us, they scored with a shot from outside the area because the team had an engagement behind them”.

He dedicated good words to the meeting v Eduardo Camavinga. “Sometimes we try to remove him from the band because he can create an internal problem. In the second half, he played more inside with the ball, leaving the band to Vinícius. Camavinga is a guarantee in every respect, as a winger he is well positioned and is progressing very quickly”.