Courtois: We were sleepy, we played badly. Everyone has an opinion, Ancelotti replied

Real Madrid suffered their first defeat of the season. It came after 17 competitive games, when they lost to Leipzig in the Champions League, in a game that was not a big deal. And it also showed in the players, which was criticized by goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Los Blancos put in their worst performance of the season so far at the Red Bull Arena. And there is a logical reason for that, they had a four-point lead on Leipzig at the top of the Champions League table, so even a defeat meant nothing. Real only need to beat Celtic at home to be first in the group.

Moreover, three key players Federico Valverde, Luka Modric and Karim Benzema were missing from the starting line-up. Carlo Ancelotti has rotated the line-up quite a lot.

Even so, Real started very cold. In the 13th minute he scored from a corner for the first time, and in the 18th minute it was 2-0.

“We were sleepy, without intensity and aggression and we paid the price. The coach warned us about it and we still started badly. They have two corners, if they finish from the first one, they can’t get the second one. We messed up a lot of passes today, it was not a good game,” goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois criticised his team after the game for Movistar.

“As a goalkeeper you feel it, you are not in the match. We were losing battles, there was a lack of intensity… A bad day can come, we played a lot of games in a short period of time, but what can’t be lacking is intensity and aggression,” the 29-year-old Belgian added.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti was also asked about Courtois’ assessment at the press conference, but he did not want to comment too much on his words. “Everyone has his own opinion,” the Italian coach said.

Source: Movistar