Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said his players can avenge their thrashing earlier this season by Barcelona by winning the Spanish Super Cup on Sunday, but only if they avoided making the same mistakes.
Hansi Rout’s Barcelona film Los Blancos 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu in October in Laliga, a cave before the winter break, helped Real Madrid overcome them at the bottom of the table.
“We have to think about this game, obviously, they beat us, we had a transparent evaluation of what happened,” said Ancelotti at a press convention on Saturday before Djeddah, Arabia in Saudi Arabia.
“We started the game well, then had problems in the second half, so we have to try and repeat the good things we did and avoid the mistakes we made.
“El Clasico is even more under tension during the last one, we played a lot or opposite to Barcelona and the game of a better opposite to them is something special. “
Madrid, who beat Mallorca 3-0 in the semifinals on Thursday, is still in favor of a balance between the attack and the defense in his game after the arrival of the French superstar Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain last year.
Along with Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo, the 4 players give Madrid significant merit going forward, but they can hurt the team if they are targeted defensively.
“[In recent classics], individual quality has prevailed in the balance of the team,” Ancelotti continued. “A facet [in the final] will be balance and collective paintings: defend.
“If you are fine, there is a greater possibility of winning. “
Ancelotti in the past said that his worst reminiscence of a 2024 success, in which Madrid won LaLiga and the Champions League, was the rhythm of Barcelona.
“We are close to the trophy, we believe positively, however, we know that anything can happen in football, especially when the opponent is strong and competes well like Barcelona,” added Ancelotti, whose team has won the Super European Cup and the Cup Intercontinental already this season.
“Our team has improved, no one can argue with that. A defeat would be good, but the team is going backwards, it will continue to move forward. “
Barcelona midfielder Dani Olmo will be able to play after the Catalans were controversially granted a temporary licence for him by Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD).
The Spanish foreigner authorization came too past on Wednesday for him to play a role in the 2-0 victory of the Catalan club opposed to Bilbao Athletic of the Catalan club.
“Olmo will play and we have to minimise his quality,” said Ancelotti, who was reluctant to give his opinion on the case that bothered Spanish football.
Flick, who replaced Barça playing Xavi Legfinish as a coach at the end of last season, said Olmo in a position to play, but advised not to start after Gavi shone in the semifinal against Bilbao Athletic in the attack paper in The center of the field.
“Gavi experienced a wonderful opposite functionality to Athletic, he TrustSArray. . . I think he’ll play, but I’m sure I’ll play,” Flick said.
The Super Cup gives the German coach the first of Argente, since his arrival in Barcelona.
“If we win, we’ll have more confidence for the rest of the season,” Flick added. “Winning the game would be anything big for everyone. “
The Super Cup comprises the winners and finalists of the Spanish National League, Laliga, and the festival of the Spanish National Cup, Copa del Rey.
Although first played in 1982, between the league and cup winners alone, it was expanded to four teams in 2020.
Real Madrid is the existing league champion, Barcelona completing the second, while Bilbao Athletic is the headlines of the Cup, since they defeated most of the last season.
This year’s Super Cup takes a position in Saudi Arabia with the 3 stages at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah.
The venue, which hosts the Saudi national team and will host the 2034 World Cup, has already hosted the two semi-finals.
Real Madrid the 2024 Super Cup, beating Barcelona 4-1 in the final.
Last year’s edition also organized in Saudi Arabia, with Riad the host city on this occasion.
Vinicius Junior scored a hat-trick in the first part for the whites, while Rodrygo Scellé is at the time of the moment after Robert Lewandowski noted the only purpose in Barça.
Real beat Madrid rivals Atletico in their semifinal, while Barca overcame Osasuna.
Aurelien Tchouameni, Federico Valverde and Jude Bellingham are all about to have the variety for the latest despite Thursday’s semi-ultimate collection.
Luca Modric res the doubt for the whites after having retired the day of the last victory opposed to Mallorca.
Eder Militao and Dani Carvajal are marginalized.
Real Madrid predicted XI: Courtois; Vázquez, Asencio, Rudiger; Mendy; Valverde, Camavong, Bellingham; Rodrygo, Mbappe, Vinicius Jr
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Dani Olmo and Pau Victor are both available to play for Barca after temporary registrations were granted to the pair following the club’s protracted dispute with Spain’s supreme sports council.
Andreas Christensen, Marc Bernal, Marc-André Ter Stegen are absent for Barcelona, for whom the largest is updating the latter in order.
The former Arsenal goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, won the victory gloves in the semifinals opposed to Athletic Bilbao, Inaki Pena is to use the role of the final.
Barcelona predicted XI: Pena; KOUNDE, CUBARSI, MARTÍNEZ, BALDE; Casado, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha; Lewandowski
Real hit the right moment with five consecutive wins recorded and seven wins in an 8-game unbeaten career. Prior to that, Los Blancos had lost 4 of their previous seven games, adding to their home humiliation through Barca. Last five games: w w w w w
Barcelona appear to be slowly emerging from their worst run of the season with successive wins recorded for the first time in 11 games. Prior to that, the Catalan club had won only three of nine, with four defeats suffered in that run. This all came after Hansi Flick won 14 of his first 16 games in charge this season. Last five games: W L L W W
Real has won 105 of the 258 between the sides, with Barça emerging victorious on 101 occasions.
Real had won the last 4 between the Games, adding the Spanish Super Cup in January and the Copa Del Rey Assembly last season, before October’s 4-0 defeat in Laliga.