Jude Bellingham has redraw the real Madrid. In times of trial and error, the goal of Carlo Ancelotti for this pre-season tour of the United States is to find the right place for the ‘5’. The Italian coach has varied the team’s game idea to place the English midfielder in the diamond tip (4-4-2) and take better advantage of its qualities. A lesson that he learned from his day with Zidane… and that has helped him not to make the same mistake again.
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“When I started training, I had a clear idea and I didn’t adapt to the players I had. I had an experience at Parma, where Baggio wanted to play as a midfielder and did not change the system. He went to another team. And I was wrong. At Juventus, with Zidane, I began to understand that it is better to adapt to the players. LThe players have to feel comfortable in the system they play,” assured the coach days before leaving for Californian lands. And it is that in Madrid they have hooked up with Jude Bellingham to create a game system that aims to revolve around his figure. A ball that must go through the recovered figure of the hitch to try to coordinate all attack situations as best as possible: “I don’t think he is a nine as such, but he (Ancelotti) sees that I have fun and that, ah, I can contribute a lot to the team. I play where they put me “, he assured after scoring his first goal dressed in white.
I had an experience at Parma, where Baggio wanted to play as a midfielder and he didn’t change the system. He went to another team. and i was wrong
As it is, the new ‘5’ of Real Madrid, who accepted with a lot of personality a number that is the history of Real Madrid After accompanying Zidane, he has a difficult challenge ahead of him… because being a midfielder at Real Madrid these days can be considered a risky profession. Jude has recovered a position that is slowly dying in the world of football and his next test, to continue polishing the Italian’s corrections, came in the second game of the tour against the Italian. Manchester Utd in it NRG Stadium of Houston.
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In his second game, Jude achieved two unusual events during his 45 minutes on the green: achieved an almost identical kinship to Zidane’s game… and managed to make forget at times to Kylian Mbapp. The English midfielder has an elegant stride and the way he turns are very reminiscent of the beauty with which Zidane danced on the pitch. Its controls at the height of the sky are another great resemblance between the two ‘5’ of Real Madrid. “I have confidence from the beginning of both the staff and my colleagues. I feel comfortable and confident“, he stated.
Jude recovers an almost forgotten position
The ‘Bellingham system’, a drawing that the famous 4-3-3 has banished from Madrid, saw the light in the Rose Bowl Stadium… and Ancelotti could not have been more clear after the final whistle. He knows that there were certain problems in the delivery of the ball, that it was not entirely clean, but he did not hesitate to explain why he had chosen that drawing: “The best position for him is 10, because it gives him more chances and is closer to the goal”, said. “Because of his ability to get into the box off the ball, Bellingham is the best option there. He moves very well without the ball and is different from the other midfielders we have. It has this quality of looking for free space,” he concluded.
