Ancelotti, saddened by the 3-0 defeat to Arsenal: We collapsed mentally. Overturn? Very difficult

Real Madrid were defeated 3-0 by Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final. A negative evening for the reigning European champions. The Italian coach of “Los Blancos” spoke to the media after the heavy defeat at the “Emirates”:

"For an hour we were good on the pitch, then we paid for the goals conceded from set pieces and the team collapsed mentally. It's a heavy defeat, in the second half of the game we couldn't do the things that worked before. The upset? It will be very difficult, but we have to try from the first minute to the last in the quarter-final return, in a week."

Asked what was missing, Ancelotti was not diplomatic: "We missed football. The team collapsed mentally after the two goals.

"Before those goals, the game was balanced, we managed the ball well, they didn't get between the lines much, which they started to do after the goal. We have to look ahead, sacrifice ourselves, think about what we can do and do it all together."

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