Carlo Ancelotti challenges players for Manchester City - 'We played without personality and courage last year'
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has sent out stinging challenge to his players ahead of the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against Manchester City, asking his team to show more personality than they did last year.
Following a 1-1 draw with City at the Santiago Bernabeu last year in the semi-finals, Los Blancos were thumped 4-0 in the return leg, and Ancelotti made it clear what he felt they lacked, when he was asked what they had learned.
“We played without courage and without personality. It is fundamental in these games. There was a lack of that in the return leg.”
He was also asked if Real Madrid lacked more than just personality, but rather ‘football’.
“Of course we lacked much more than just personality and courage. We lacked technical quality, they pressed us very high, and they sought us out, and we have to counter that this time round.”
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