Ancelotti continues his successful path in the real Madrid. The third season of the second stage at the helm of the team has started with full of victories: two league games (Athletic and Almera) and two victories. Two commitments that have helped the technician equal the 119 duels he led in his first term in front of the white bench. A perfect data to compare and take stock, and that has a main conclusion: in the second stage the Italian has won fewer games, but more titles.
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Ancelotti directed 119 matches in his first spell in two seasons. He did it with a balance of 89 wins, 14 draws and 16 losses. An income statement with which he conquered four titles (Cup, Champions League, European Super Cup and Club World Cup) of the nine I played. They won 75% of the games and 44% of the titles. He did it at the controls of a full BBC with which he signed some historic goalscoring figures: Madrid scored 161 goals in 60 games in 13-14 and 160 in 59 games in 14-15.
A difficult legacy to overcome when his return to the Santiago Bernabu bench became official in the summer of 2021. The Italian returned in a delicate situation after the second goodbye to Zidane and a blank season that add more tension and demand to the need for results in the form of titles. A ‘trap’ comeback which was also marked by the feeling that, despite signing three years, the hiring of ‘Carletto’ was a bridge step until the club outlined a new great project.
more titles
ancelotti I assumed the challenge without fear, with enthusiasm and squeezing the most out of a template that in that summer he would not finally have the icing on Mbapp. He brought out the best of the ‘old guard’ and gave a leap forward to the younger ones. Thus, in the 119 other matches that he has led Madrid in his second spell, the balance is 81 wins, 17 draws and 21 losses for a total of six titles out of 10 possible. The Italian has added eight fewer victories in his second stage, but two more titles. He has won 68% of the matches and 60% of the titles. Regarding the scoring baggage, it has decreased: 118 goals in 56 games in 21-22 and 127 in 61 games in 22-23.
Trust and transparency between Ancelotti and Real Madrid despite Brazil’s announcement
Some numbers that have turned the ‘patch’ Ancelotti of the summer of 2021 into a triumphant project who continues to lead the Italian in his third season. Very few would have bet that he would go this far in his second adventure in whitebut the reality is that if nothing goes wrong, completing his third consecutive season at the helm of Real Madrid, something that does not happen in the ‘White House’ since Mourinho (Zidane took charge of the team in 15-16 halfway through the campaign and the same in 18-19 when he returned).
His future on the bench
In fact, today no one would be in a position to rule out a technician renewal if it hadn’t been for the outbreak of the ‘Brazil case’. Only the conviction of the brazilian federation that the Italian will be his future coach, no later than next summer, alters Ancelotti’s stability on a white bench that has gone like silk and that has been away from major controversies. And all this because ‘Carletto’ keeps coming up with the accounts.
