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Carlo Ancelotti<\/strong><\/p>\n Manager Carlo Ancelotti took responsibility for\u00a0Real Madrid\u2019s\u00a04-0\u00a0El Clasico<\/em>\u00a0thrashing by\u00a0Barcelona\u00a0on Sunday, saying the defeat was \u201cmy fault.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang\u00a0scored twice and\u00a0Ronald Araujo\u00a0and\u00a0Ferran Torres\u00a0were also on the scoresheet as Barca recorded their biggest\u00a0Clasico\u00a0<\/em>win at the Bernabeu since 2015.<\/p>\n Aubameyang, Torres and\u00a0Ousmane Dembele\u00a0\u2013 who provided two assists \u2013 all spurned second-half chances to increase the margin of Barca\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The result left Madrid, who hadn\u2019t lost in La Liga since January 2, nine points clear at the top of the table, with Barca 12 points behind in third place.<\/p>\n \u201cIt isn\u2019t difficult to explain. They played better than us,\u201d Ancelotti told Movistar<\/em>. \u201cWe wanted to control the ball more, to press them high, but it didn\u2019t work \u2026 It\u2019s my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe weren\u2019t recognisable. Everything went badly. We have to forget it and look forward; we have a big lead [in the table]. I said [to the players] that it was the coach\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n With top scorer\u00a0Karim Benzema\u00a0absent with a calf injury, Ancelotti picked\u00a0Luka Modric\u00a0in an unfamiliar forward role, while\u00a0Nacho Fernandez\u00a0struggled as a left-back replacement for\u00a0Ferland Mendy.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was one of our worst games of the season,\u201d Nacho said. \u201cMaybe we relaxed with our lead in the table, and it wasn\u2019t a game to do that, quite the opposite. It always hurts to lose a\u00a0Clasico\u00a0<\/em>but we\u2019ve had a great season until now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Added Ancelotti: \u201cThe plan with Modric was to try to play the ball out from the back and find space between the lines with\u00a0Rodrygo,\u00a0[Federico] Valverde\u00a0and\u00a0Vinicius. It didn\u2019t work. It isn\u2019t a problem for me to take responsibility. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don\u2019t. I failed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Goalkeeper\u00a0Thibaut Courtois\u00a0said the display was \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted to start with intensity, but they found spaces. We weren\u2019t compact,\u201d he told Movistar<\/em>. \u201cWe have to talk about the tactics internally. It didn\u2019t work, what we did from the start of the game, or in the second half \u2026 They had chances. The result could have been much worse,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlo Ancelotti Manager Carlo Ancelotti took responsibility for\u00a0Real Madrid\u2019s\u00a04-0\u00a0El Clasico\u00a0thrashing by\u00a0Barcelona\u00a0on Sunday, saying the defeat was \u201cmy fault.\u201d \u00a0 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang\u00a0scored twice and\u00a0Ronald Araujo\u00a0and\u00a0Ferran Torres\u00a0were also on the scoresheet as Barca recorded their biggest\u00a0Clasico\u00a0win at the Bernabeu since 2015. Aubameyang, Torres and\u00a0Ousmane Dembele\u00a0\u2013 who provided two assists \u2013 all spurned second-half chances to increase the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1321,5185,6465],"class_list":["post-1030789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-admits","tag-ancelotti","tag-fault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}