MADRID.- The coach of real Madrid, Carlo Ancelottipredicted this Saturday that the clash in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Atlético, which will be played in early March, will be “entertaining” and “balanced.”
“Difficult, as always. It will be a beautiful, entertaining and balance tie. The last two games have been draws, the quality of the two teams is similar,” said the Italian coach in the press conference prior to the match against the Girona in LaLiga.
Questioned about the messages of the mattress club published in X, in which Ironize about the criticism of the white team to the referees, Ancelotti said that he already has difficulty understanding what a tweet is: “Then you explain them to me. I do not look at these things.”
The coach maintains the opinion that the Spanish championship is conditioned. “I want a competition as clean as possible,” he said.
Regarding the tight of LaLiga, with Barcelona and Real Madrid tied to points and Atlético to one, Ancelotti highlighted the level of the tournament. “A competed league as here in Spain is difficult. Here are three teams to a point and are teams of a very high level. It is a league that is going to decide in the last game,” he said.
Luis Enrique is “happy” to go against Liverpool
The Spanish coach of Paris Saint-Germain, Luis Enrique, said on Saturday being “happy” for facing Liverpool in the round of 16 of the Champions League, a duel between “two teams of a very high level.”
“I am happy, they are two teams of a very high level. That double confrontation will be very attractive. Everything will be exciting, this competition begins to give us very exciting and interesting things to see,” Luis Enrique reacted on Saturday at a press conference.
He added that he did not see the raffle because he was drinking “a capuccino” with his assistant Rafael Pol.
His team will receive the ‘Reds’ on March 5 at the Park of the Princes and visit Anfield on March 11 for the round of the round of 16.
The two teams have “a very high percentage (goals), we approach the goal differently,” he valued. “It is 50%-50%.”
