Article by Romeo Ene – published Monday, April 07, 2025, 22:28 / Updated Monday, April 7, 2025:29
Carlo Ancelotti (65 years old), Real Madrid's coach, prefaced the traveling duel with Arsenal, in the tour of the Champions League. The game is played on Tuesday, April 8, from 10:00 pm. The duel will be LiveText on GSP.ro and the first sport televised 1 and Digi Sport 1.
The technician spoke about the return of Thibaut Courtois (32 years) in the first “11”. The Belgian goalkeeper was injured and missed the last three championship matches, with Leganes, Real Sociedad and Valencia.
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The Italian coach has guaranteed that he still has the support of the management, and Thibaut Courtois It's apt to play for the Champions League match.
“I didn't talk to Courtois, I know he could play better. Tomorrow he'll make a big match. We cannot think of criticism when we have matches every three days, we analyzed the situation and now we have to prepare for this game.
There are 90 very important, but not decisive minutes, because there are still 90 on Bernabeu.
I don't know if the leadership was tired of me. I am interested in as the most important person (No – Florentino Perez) not to be saturated.
It is very difficult to always ask for 100%, it is impossible. We had many injuries and it was difficult to make more team changes, which were needed at this time.
I rested Asensio in the last match because he was exhausted after the match with Real Sociedad. That being said, I think the team is very physical and we can play a match at a high intensity.
The artery does a fantastic job. He took this team to the top of Europe and, above all, built a complete team. There are not many teams like this ”, explained Ancelotti, according to Abola.pt.
I'm fine, I had a minor problem. I trained and I'm fine. We had two injuries at the beginning of the season, then I was fine, and this was a minor problem, because we didn't want to risk in important matches, we preferred to wait.
I am 100% apt to play, you have to ask the coach if I play, but I feel ready.
It all depends on the results, we deserve to win with Valencia … but we missed that penalty, Mamardashvili was on a big day. Within ourselves, we feel we do a good job, even if the results are not favorable.
– Thibaut CourtoisReal Madrid's goalkeeper
