Four goals in their net, which even the worst pessimists among the Real Madrid fanship did not expect. Barcelona have shown not only that they are still alive, but that a new, powerful team is rising from the ashes. The Catalans have proved it in the most difficult test – in El Clásico at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.Everyone in Los Blancos camp was shocked, and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was bold enough to give a statement to Movistar and to send a televised message to manager Carlo Ancelotti – as everyone sees the Italian as the culprit for the collapse of the Royal Club in the big derby.”We will have to talk about tactics. But, internally, in the locker room, not publicly. The fact is that nothing worked, neither at the beginning of the match, nor when the second half started”, said Courtois.06.04. Wed 2:00: (2.10) Chelsea (3.30) Real Madrid (3.70)The Belgian goalkeeper added that Ancelotti tried to change something at the halftime break but it did not turn out as the hosts hoped.”We thought at half time that we could make a comeback. And, after only ten seconds of play in the second half, Ferran Torres was left one-on-one with me.”The biggest objection is in regards to the choice of who should play as false “nine” in Karim Benzema’s absence. In the second period of the match, the task fell to Luka Modrić – and he barely touched the ball for the rest of the game.”We played the cup final with a false ‘nine’ and we barely had a shot at goal. It was the same now. We started well, Valverde had an opportunity, but Ter Stegen denied it. And after that, we fell apart completely. We could not find a free man on the pitch. We opened the second half as it should not be done when wearing the shirt of this club. We could have conceded even more goals.”African players in Europe: Auba found a new home in Spain, Osimhen keeps Napoli’s hopes aliveThe 29-year-old was angry after the match, such a heavy defeat in the derby casts a bit of a shadow on the potential title-winning, as Real Madrid are still far ahead of everyone on the table.”We hurt the reputation of this club. We missed some players, but on the pitch you could not see that Barcelona played in Istanbul on Thursday. They had too much space to play, we were not compact, we failed to defend our goal. With the first conceded goal, they had a better anticipation on the first goalpost, we didn’t manage to switch places properly, and the same thing happened with the second goal.” explained Thibaut Courtois.
