Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti was pleased with his side’s performance against Schalke in Gelsenkirchen last night and was also happy to see Cristiano Ronaldo back among the goals.
Goals from Ronaldo and Marcelo helped the European champions to register a comfortable 2-0 win over Schalke at the Veltins-Arena in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie.
With two away goals in the bag, Real Madrid are now well-placed to go through to the quarter-finals of the competition ahead of the next leg at the Bernabeu next month.
Ancelotti was pleased with his side’s performance last night against Roberto Di Matteo’s men and feels that they never lost control of the match after scoring the first goal in the 26th minute through a Ronaldo header.
“My team put in a good performance today”, Ancelotti told UEFA.
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“Our attitude was good as well. The intensity of this match was not very high, it was more a game of patience.
“We were waiting for our chances and, overall, were able to control things quite well. Only once we were in danger of conceding, but overall it was a good performance.”
The Italian reserved special praise for Ronaldo and said that they were never worried about the Portuguese’s brief goal drought, but admits that it was affecting the Real Madrid forward’s psyche.
“It is clear that Cristiano Ronaldo lives to score goals. It's never a problem for us when he doesn't score for a couple of games. But he, of course, minds”, the Real Madrid boss revealed.
“Today it was not just any goal, it was an important goal, the opener. I believe we are back on the right track.”
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