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Real Madrid may not be perfect, as Rayo Vallecano demonstrated by breaking their defense three times last weekend, but things have changed. Since their damaging defeats to Barcelona and AC Milan, Los Blancos have improved in terms of work rate, attitude and results.
The catalyst for that change was a team talk held by Carlo Ancelotti. When there was talk that the Italian would lose his job, Marca says he reprimanded his players two days after the match, asking them to change things. His key message, which he has repeated in public, was: “We have to make it to Christmas alive.”
Before Real Madrid’s Intercontinental Cup victory against Pachuca, Ancelotti was also asked if he had lost control of the dressing room. The Italian laughed at the idea, but it was an idea that had circulated in the local press at the time, among a series of other complaints that were serialized after their 3-1 defeat to Milan.
The evidence that he hasn’t comes from veteran star Luka Modric. The 39-year-old captain may not be as key as before, but he also encouraged his teammates after Ancelotti’s speech. ‘We don’t let the coach fall,’ was his message to his teammates. One they seem to have accepted.
