Ancelotti scolds Madrid: 'Quality alone can't win'

Carlo Ancelotti criticized Real Madrid's cognition aft a 3-2 defeat astatine Rayo Vallecano saw them suffer successful LaLiga for the archetypal clip this season, saying "sometimes prime unsocial can't triumph you the game."

Madrid went down to Santi Comesana's aboriginal extremity earlier Luka Modric's punishment and Eder Militao's header enactment the visitors up successful Vallecas, earlier Alvaro Garcia levelled up of the break.

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A second-half punishment scored by skipper Oscar Trejo -- retaken aft goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois saved Trejo's archetypal effort, with defender Dani Carvajal encroaching wrong the container -- gave Rayo the win, and near Madrid 2 points down Barcelona astatine the apical of LaLiga.

"We weren't convincing successful the idiosyncratic duels," Ancelotti said successful his post-match quality conference. "Sometimes, erstwhile you can't lucifer the attitude, prime unsocial can't triumph you the game. We mislaid a batch of balls and we suffered with their pressing. It was a atrocious night."

The decision brought an extremity to Madrid's 12-game unbeaten tally successful LaLiga and saw them driblet points for the 2nd crippled successful a row, aft a 1-1 location draw with Girona past weekend.

"In presumption of prime we dropped disconnected a bit," Ancelotti said. "Rodrygo [Goes] and Vinicius [Junior] missed immoderate chances that they'd usually score. It wasn't a bully game. [Marco] Asensio did well, but the others weren't arsenic bully arsenic usual."

After a engaged spell of 11 matches successful 36 days that began successful aboriginal October, Madrid present person 1 past crippled -- hosting Cadiz connected Thursday -- earlier LaLiga takes a seven-week interruption for the World Cup.

"We lacked immoderate freshness, but that's mean aft truthful galore games," Ancelotti said. "If we measure this archetypal portion of the season, we've done well.

"We mislaid contiguous and the decision bothers us, but we're doing good successful the league and we're successful the Champions League circular of 16. We request to decorativeness good against Cadiz and past we request to rest."