MADRID —
Carlo Ancelotti praised Brazilian pair
Rodrygo and Vinicius for “making Real
Madrid dream” in the absence of injured center-forward Karim Benzema.
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Eden Hazard has
also “done his part of the job”, Ancelotti said on the eve of holders Real’s
Champions League home game against Leipzig on Wednesday, their second Group F
match after a 3–0 win over Celtic.
“We are
enthusiastic about our attack, about our young people. Karim makes us dream,
but you end up getting used to what he does. So, when a young player comes on,
it makes you dream even more,” said Ancelotti.
“What Vini and
Rodrygo do make us dream.”
Ancelotti said
Benzema, carrying a right thigh injury, “has a chance of playing” in the La
Liga derby against Atletico on Sunday.
But against
Leipzig, the 34-year-old French player will have to give way to the Brazilians
or 31-year-old Belgian Hazard.
“During the two
matches without Karim, Hazard did what we asked of him,” said Ancelotti, who
has won the Champions League trophy a record four times as a coach.
“But above all,
the team reacted well, because we scored seven goals,” he added of the three against
Celtic and four against Mallorca.
In Benzema’s
absence, the player who shone the most was 22-year-old Vinicius, who was the
scorer of the winning goal in last year’s Champions League final against
Liverpool.
“I don’t even
need to talk about his qualities,” said Real’s German rookie Antonio Rudiger of
the Brazilian.
“He’s a huge
player, everyone knows that. He’s a calm boy in the dressing room, who likes to
have fun on the pitch. “
“He dribbles a
lot, and it’s normal that the opponents want to hurt him when they have the
chance. I too have tried. ... We all try to stop him.”
Against Leipzig,
Ancelotti expects a “very dangerous attack, with not only (Timo) Werner, but
also (Christopher) Nkunku, who has been playing very well since last season,
(Dominik) Szoboszlai, who has different characteristics, (Emil) Forsberg, who
has a lot of experience. ... They are a very dangerous team”.
Meanwhile, after
two financial years impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,
Real Madrid have
returned to growth, with revenues of 721.5 million euros ($723 million) at the
end of the 2021–2022 season, the club announced.
The Madrid
club’s revenues had reached a record 757 million euros in 2019, before the
outbreak of the pandemic, but fell to 653 million euros last season, due in
particular to the loss of ticketing revenue.
The 14-time European
champions’ revenue in 2018 was 751 million euros.
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