Actual Madrid supervisor Carlo Ancelotti has revealed that Antonio Rudiger was chosen as their fifth penalty taker for his or her shootout towards Atletico Madrid within the Champions League primarily based on the expression of certainly one of his different choices. The German defender stepped as much as hearth the winner for Los Blancos, securing their progress to the quarter-finals.
Ancelotti and his workers despatched up Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham, Fede Valverde and Lucas Vazquez for his or her first 4 penalties on the Metropolitano, with the latter seeing his saved by Jan Oblak. It was between Endrick Felipe or Rudiger as to who would take what was more likely to be a decisive penalty.
“We had been hesitant about selecting Endrick or Rüdiger. Then I checked out Endrick’s face and stated, ‘higher off with Rudiger’,” Ancelotti advised on Wednesday night time.
The Italian supervisor additionally claimed that he didn’t take off Vinicius Junior on Wednesday night time to keep away from him . The Brazilian famous person was changed by Endrick within the a hundred and fifteenth minute, simply 5 earlier than the sport went to penalties. Ancelotti was requested to make clear whether or not Endrick had initially been placed on particularly to take a penalty.
“No. He got here on as a result of Vinicius was drained, exhausted, and we wished a recent participant, nothing else.”
Earlier than the sport, , noting that it was little to do with expertise or approach as to who he prefers to take penalties, however quite who feels assured about taking one.
Ancelotti in fact was on the top of arguably essentially the most agonising defeat in penalty shootout historical past, after his AC Milan noticed a three-goal lead slip away towards Liverpool within the 2005 Champions League ultimate, just for Jerzy Dudek to grow to be the hero for the Reds.