Actual Madrid secured a vital victory over Villarreal on Saturday, however the membership has been removed from pleased within the aftermath of this. Particularly, there was plenty of unhappiness surrounding the choice for the match to be performed when it was, contemplating that Los Blancos have been in Champions League motion in opposition to Atletico Madrid solely three days prior.
After the match at La Ceramica, Actual Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti expressed his anger and frustration regarding the scenario, and he claimed that the membership had requested for the fixture to be moved to permit for his gamers to relaxation extra after enjoying 120 minutes on the Metropolitano on Wednesday.
Nonetheless, these claims made by Ancelotti have now been rejected by La Liga themselves, who’ve advised Marca that Actual Madrid have by no means requested for his or her match in opposition to Villarreal to be moved.
This isn’t the primary difficulty that Actual Madrid have butted heads with authorities over, however La Liga are clear that they’ve gone little fallacious as per their tips, and in addition the foundations of the Spanish Soccer Federation.
Ancelotti said that he would threatened to withdrawn his Actual Madrid from the La Liga match if his situation was repeated sooner or later, however for now, it isn’t anticipated to occur once more this season. Their Champions League quarter-final tie in opposition to Arsenal is likely one of the “lengthy” ties scheduled by UEFA, that means that there’s an eight-day hole between the 2 legs, whereas Barcelona’s match-up in opposition to Borussia Dortmund has solely six days – and because of this, they should cope with the identical scenario as Actual Madrid have needed to this weekend.