Carlo Ancelotti admitted he was not happy with Real Madrid’s performance despite beating Atletico Madrid 2-1 to take a slight advantage ahead of their second leg. Ancelotti

said the team gave up the ball too easily in the first half before gradually improving their game and scoring a second goal in the second half.

The Italian is confident his team will progress but admitted the second leg against Atletico will be a tough one, with a similar level to the semi-final or final.

“It will be a tough game as always because it is like this every time we play against Atletico. In the first half we gave up the ball too much, we gave up the ball unnecessarily. Then Julian scored for them. In the second half we played better, we took the lead again and kept the result,” Ancelotti said.

“Our first plan was to attack the wings with Vinicius and Rodrygo, which worked in the first half, but after that we lacked patience. We worked hard and controlled the game well. We pressed hard, but we didn’t really want to press too much, we wanted to be compact and the team did well throughout the game.”

Ancelotti believes the second leg at the คาสิโนออนไลน์ UFABET ฝากถอนรวดเร็ว เริ่มต้นเล่นง่าย. Metropolitano It will be a tough game but he believes Real Madrid have a good chance of reaching the last eight.

“We have a little bit of an advantage and we want to go through. It will be difficult in the second leg, Atletico will put more pressure on but the game will be close,” Ancelotti added.

“Both teams have a lot of quality. It’s a round of 16 but it could be a semi-final or a final. We are not very happy to play Atletico and they are not very happy to play Real Madrid either.”