Ancelotti praises Mbappe on the night Bellingham and others were woeful against Barca

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti spoke to the media after Real Madrid’s horrible 5-2 loss to Barcelona on Sunday night.

Ancelotti was asked about the performances of the players and whether there was any positive he takes from the game, and he said: “I have nothing to hold back. It was a very good game for Kylian Mbappe. We have to forget about the rest and look forward.

“The game was not good from the first minute to the last. We were down one man and we couldn’t create any chances. I’m upset about the whole game.

“The game was about defending well. We defended badly and Barcelona deserved to win. They were better than us.”

Speaking about Tchouameni and Vazquez's performances, Ancelotti said

“I don’t want to point the finger at anyone. They didn’t defend well at the back. The team wasn’t compact. We need to defend better.”

Ancelotti on whether it could have been worse for Real if not for the red, “I thought that with the expulsion we could try to come back. I didn’t think of anything else. We have to look at reality. We didn’t defend well. They scored goals very easily. We didn’t work well on a collective or individual level. It leaves us sad and disappointed. This is football. We have to go home. Our sadness is that of our fans. We have to look forward and prepare well for the next game.

“I am sad, like everyone else. It is a normal feeling. I am disappointed, there is no need to hide it. But this is football. Sometimes you can win and other times you have to learn from defeat. Nothing. There is still a lot of season left and we have to look forward.”

 On what he told the players at half-time, “We should try to play football because we didn’t do that in the first half. We took advantage of long balls, but that should have been an option, not the idea. The idea was to play and we didn’t do that. I said we could lose, but not like the first half.”

Madrid were thrashed in a second straight Clasico, continuous woeful defending letting them down in a 5-2 battering at the hands of Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup final. Los Blancos were consistently beaten on the counterattack and conceded five goals within 50 minutes to make a truly horrible Clasico loss.

This was not a calm game. Nor was it cagey. Instead, from minute one, chaos unfolded.

 Mbappe opened the scoring, leading a well-orchestrated counter-attack before shifting the ball out of his feet and smashing it home. And that was as good as it got.

Lamine Yamal offered the Barca response, strolling into the right channel, cutting onto his stronger foot and finding the bottom corner. They added a second after 36 minutes when Robert Lewandowski converted from the penalty spot.

The Blaugrana's third came on the back of some tepid Madrid defending, Raphinha floating into acres of space and converting a free header. Balde made it four after another sloppy piece of play, an under-hit pass from a corner giving Barca a clean break down the pitch, which ended with a calm side-footed finish into the bottom corner.

Raphinha turned it into a drubbing early in the second half, twisting  Tchouameni inside out and wrong-footing Thibaut Courtois.

Things seemed poised to turn after an hour. Wojciech Szczesny was shown a straight red for scything Mbappe down outside the box. Rodrygo curled the ensuing free-kick into the top corner. But that was about it. Madrid couldn't create against a dogged 10-man Barca and suffered a second straight forgettable derby defeat - while watching their arch-rivals lift a trophy at the end of it all.

Jude Bellingham was completely marked out of the game in the first half. Not much better in the second. Disappeared on the biggest stage, for once.