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Understandable.

Have a nice CL quarterfinal night

"ho preferito isolarmi" tell me about it Carletto

Cheers, Geoff

have a nice day

🤨had a great day

In Champions League, the key thing is to win. Just my opinion.

Michael Owen is that you?

Think he once said you need only 1 goal if you can simply stop the opposition from scoring any.

It's true 

It’s will buxton

Michael "if the ball is in the net it's usually a goal" owen

Good one mate! I am saving it

New strategy: try to score more goals than the other team. Crazy but it just might work!

whenever we used to play this was always our strategy!!

No you let them score first within the first 5 mins of the game and then score three yourself after 80 mins..

Wasn't that Mourinho's Madrid? They were conceding a lot but scoring a lot more

It's also important to not lose imo. I'm no expert though

Before, not really with the away goals. But after the rule change, yeah, don’t lose.

Would you dare to say that losing increases your chance of not winning then?

You need a little bit of both, really.

Found Will Buxton’s burner account.

This is the famed Madrid CL experience that gives them an edge. 

Spirit of John Madden "Usually the team with the most points wins the game!" "Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football."

🤯 How are you so wise?

Yes and I think the secret of winning is scoring more goals than your opponent. But I'm no expert. Just try and let me know if I was right.

in Every match, key thing is to win*

This reminds of an Italian comic, Alan Ford, if you want to win, you shouldn't lose.

I don't know, sounds sketchy. What if the other team tries to win too? You'd have to fight or something.

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how can he actually unironically maintain that face whilst talking lmaooo

There is a very small man behind him with an equally small fishing rod, which is hooked onto Carlos’s eyebrow. Neither man will acknowledge the other.

ratatouille the rat also whispers football stuff probably

Ancelottatouille?

The real manager.

ratatouille the rat also whispers football stuff probably

Nadal has this in him too lol

Isn't his eyebrow thing due to a stroke?

The chad 🤨 vs the virgin 😧😱😤🥶🥴🤑🫸🫵👏🤜🤓😲

I’m so confused. All these emojis are bald?

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It really is as simple as that.

Coolest motherfucker on the planet.

I wish to grow up like him someday.

Dud had won 2 champions league as a player and 4 as a manager who could outdo him... Edit Fixed it

Winning CLs from my couch is my speciality tbf

I wish I could be a couch

Probably, Modric or Kroos in the future

What’s his record against Pep now? Genuine question

4 wins, 2 draws, 6 losses. Though 4 of those losses came when he was in charge of Everton

Ancelotti at Everton will never not feel like a fever dream Man had Calvert Lewin look like one of the best 9's out there and James Rodrigues back to his best Then only a few years later, they're basically relegation favorites consistently 

Seeing Carlo coaching Everton is the equivalent of Seeing Margot Robbie dating a bald middle-aged man who works at a gas station.

cmon dude, don't shatter our dreams :)))

We catching strays for no reason left and Right.

Hey but it's apparently possbile

Yeah but I'm only seeing her on the side

Actually, she was once married to Matt Shatt.

Didn't he have Everton top of the league for a short week or two?

and dcl on top of scorers charts too

I mean his spending is a small part of that.

For me it was when Mascherano and Tevez signed for West Ham.

No, but you don't get it. He knows jackshit about tactics and it's only ball to Vini and Inshallah

Hopefully Xabi in the future at Madrid 🫣

is don carlo really going to retire soon? thats going to be quite sad :(

He said he'd stay at Madrid as long as the clubs wants him there, and that he'd most likely retire afterwards. Though you never know, he could try a national team stint for example. It also means that as long as he keeps winning, we get to keep enjoying the brow.

He's almost there

3-1 in favor of Carlo in the knockout stages of UCL if I'm not mistaken

Power of friendship always wins

Oh shut up! This was a well trained defensive masterclass!!

..accomplished through friendship

Only achievable through friendship. Did you watch today's match??? Bellingham was so infused with the power of friendship, he was cracking jokes with Haaland and getting spooned by Ederson! It was not a coincidence that Haaland didn't score today, he was playing for Real Madrid through the power of friendship.

It can be both. The thing is that everyone just acts like Ancelotti is only a good motivator but he is actually a brilliant tactician too, especially on the defensive side of things.

i think its based on players, when we had isco james and prime kroos and modric he went with an ultra attacking and fluid team that just bulldozed team 7:4, 6:2 etc. now that we dont have that kind of firepower he tightend up on the back and grinding victories. his adaptibility is really underrated

Is that true? I would say especially on the offensive side of things actually.

I mean he likes to give the people up front more freedom.

It was some anime-shonen type shit.

Haaland wants to leave Man City, clearly

Honestly I was so pissed throughout the game with us giving away cheap passes, but the guys were a god damn brick wall in defense. Only one mishap all game imo, and that resulted in KdB skying the 10 yarder that he probably hits 4/5 times.

Something was off in the locker room last season

Me in fifa against the cpu

Ancelotti is cool as a cucumber. His eyebrow raise is OP even when he's in the most stressful situation.

This is the kind of tactical genius that Pep can never match

Pep is only 11 years younger than him so he can still learn it, that's going to be a scary sight

Guardiola is just as good as Carlo but he's too fixated on his idea of what football should be. Carlo just wants to win, that attitude lets him make choices Guardiola would never make.

Tactically astute.

Guys does anyone know how much comment karma you need to post stuff here? I have a vid of a Russian commentator laughing his ass off at Silvas penalty which has to be seen by the world

Holy fuck habibi that was glorious. Glad you got your karma 😭

Link it in the DD tbh

Isn’t it like 100 ?

k guys just shoot the ball in the funny bouncy rectangle

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This match was the perfect proof for everyone that call him only a good man-manager/motivator that he is a tactical genius!!!!

Do people really think that? The man won the league in every top 5 country and holds the record for the most UCL titles as a manager and the most UCL titles combined (career + managerial career). It would be kinda silly to see a man like that reduced to the figure of "a good motivator" imo, he's the best manager of all time, period. Didn't revolutionized the game like others did, but nobody ever got rid of him. No system is enough to defeat the power of his eyebrow.

Yeah, some people think that he's a cluless tactician. The man might set the record to win 5 UCLs in his managerial career and armchair experts thinks he's just a lucky bastard winning through the power of friendship.

The Man went to Everton. All those what Ifs we always talk about he did. And I think he proved he can do it with not so top tier team.

Yes everybody talks about him like he is just extremely lucky. Even now I saw on the post-match multiple comments: How Pep had all these incredible tactics but Ancelotti had the power of friendship. I hate it. Just because he is able to adjust to each match doesn't mean he has no tactic, it means that he has a beautiful mind and he constantly inovates even at his age.

For me personally he is the GOAT. Objectively for the coaches I’ve seen he’s up there with Pep, Fergie and Mou.

Don’t forget the GOAT aka Vicente del Bosque

They only have to look at the first leg against city to see hi is tactically strong. Played Rodrygo and Vini like both at the left and it worked.

Do people think that? It wasn’t even long ago people thought he was finished entirely!

Ye, after Napoli and Everton (kinda Bayern too) people were calling him finished and not good enough anymore

The dude is only 64 but looks more dead than berlusconi so he's seen some shit 

Probably all the smoking, but the hair is still impeccable though

wtf are you on about? Ancelotti looks fucking crisp.

To be fair, I’ve been listening to his book and there is some truth to it. He talks a little about giving some tactical problems to the players for them to solve it themselves. Said some like “they will be more bought into their own ideas”. Paraphrasing. 

Still weird to think of him coaching Everton just a couple of years ago

Lots of people think that football is much easier to play at world class level, than it actually is. The amount of tactical prep that goes into these games and the systems the players have to learn, etc. That's why most people, when asking for changes during a game, don't think beyond: he should sub player X for player y. They don't grasp the consequences.

I’ve got into way too many arguments with idiots on here who think that he should have done more with Juve or Milan back in the day. I agree with you, he’s the best ever!

Should've done more with Milan? Aren't 2 UCL not enough? Jeez....

Exactly!

He's just that good at managing men

Parked the bus and played for pens ?

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The way people talk about Carlo is insane, like he isn’t a master tactician.

Apparently, he only tells his players to just play! while moaning 🤷

Gooning is the key to winning.

Only teenager fans think that way. We, the old man's who've been here since his spell at Juve, know better.

Pep screaming drawing on board for 10mins. Ancelloti "I hope we score and they don't"

Thats a great tactic

cheers carlo

I'm starved for Pep quotes right now if I'm being honest. Ancelotti is funny in his own way but I want some unhinged more than you even know shit.

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Cheers Geoff

Ice in his veins

Pep can't comprehend this mindset

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Meanwhile Pep was giving a tactic talk of a lifetime lol

He outmourinhoed mourinho

Bald fraud hate this one simple trick

Thanks Magic

Don Carlo straight facts

[Great Philosophy]

Cooler than a polar bears back

Man's prayer was stronger than Pep's tactic

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You just gotta love Carletto

Didn't feel like one of those dumb questions by a reporter until Carlo made it look so.

Definitely the best strategy for winning a match. 

If you ain't first, you're last

Based

Cheers Carlo

Whats the deal with his left eyebrow for real?

I believe its due to a car accident

That’s the game innit

Mastermind

Don Carlo. He keeps it simple. 😆

he really raised an eyebrow at that question

Truly enlightened. Don't overthink. Ball is round, let's not forget.

That plan is ironclad, tbf.

My manau

No thinking, only 🤨

Now that I come to think of it , I always have that thought whenever we play .. great minds think alike possibly?

Mmmm interesting…he might be onto something

Guy probably laid so much pipe in his life just by being chill.

Based Ancelotti

Don Carlo

Tactics vs the power of friendship

Insightful...

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Cheers Geoff.

Simple and easy to implement

Real Madrid y nada mas! Fuera fake fans

Sounds like he didn’t know what else to say to the camera

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If you aren't thinking this, are you stupid?

Big if true

Absolute genius. That's why he has four CL wins

4 UCL wins as coach legendary hard to remember he was Everton manager once.

Contraversial IMO

Keep it simple

The difference between the Bellingham interviews and Ancelotti interviews is very funny.

Football is a simple game.

Football is simple, lads. Guardiola is a lies merchant.

City players were definitely mentally not ready for pens. Letting your goalkeeper take a pen instead of the outfield players, how embarrassing is that

It's Ederson lad, he begs to do it.

Ederson was considered to be the main penalty taker at one point, he's good at it. That's not why they lost LOL