Arbeloa highlights Real Madrid’s ambition and eyes a response in Germany | OneFootball

Álvaro Arbeloa commented on Real Madrid’s defeat to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. With the opponent ahead on the scoreboard at the Santiago Bernabéu, the coach said the Merengue side was anxious to level the match.

“There were situations at 1-2 when the anxiety to equalize… it’s necessary to keep a cooler head because 1-3 would have been much more difficult, but I also admire my team’s ambition not to want to lose, to know they are at home and to keep attacking. It’s a shame we weren’t able to make more of some other chances. Of course I have a lot of confidence in going to Germany and winning,” he said.

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“We’ll have days to prepare well and that’s what we’re going to focus on. Emotionally, no. I have players with a lot of personality who, first of all, said we’re going to win there, they’re convinced and so am I. We’re going all in, we’re Real Madrid, we have no fears. We know the difficulty of the opponent, the context and the stadium, but we’re going all in,” he added.

Mbappé and Bellingham’s match

Arbeloa highlighted Kylian Mbappé’s performance, as he scored the home side’s only goal. The coach also praised the importance of Jude Bellingham’s return, after he had been sidelined in recent months due to an injury.

“I saw a very committed Mbappé in every task and capable of making the difference, of being the best player in the world and a constant threat to Bayern’s players. This is the Mbappé we want to see. A Mbappé who wants to be Mbappé every day,” he said.

“He is a player who was out for a long time. It’s not that I want to leave him on the bench. We talked a lot about how his return to the team should be and about gradually getting back to his best level. It’s something logical, and I would have liked him to have been able to play 90 minutes with Bellingham since I became coach. He gave us a lot because we needed a player like him, someone capable of escaping the very aggressive pressure Bayern applies, carrying the ball and beating opponents,” Álvaro Arbeloa commented.

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Tchouaméni’s sending-off

Suspended for picking up another yellow card in the Champions League, Tchouaméni will not be on the field in Munich next Wednesday. Arbeloa criticized the refereeing decision, but expressed confidence in the options in his squad to replace the Frenchman.

“We’ll have time to think about who will play. We have solid options. It’s clear that it’s an important absence because of a card where I don’t know what the referee saw there, nor do I understand why he didn’t give a red card for that challenge on Mbappé. There are things that sometimes we just can’t understand, but it is what it is, and with that we will go to Munich,” he concluded.

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