{"id":15232,"date":"2025-04-21T08:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=589650"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:17:04","slug":"its-the-best-system-to-defend-ancelotti-speaks-on-the-system-he-likes-to-play-at-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/its-the-best-system-to-defend-ancelotti-speaks-on-the-system-he-likes-to-play-at-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the best system to defend,\u201d Ancelotti speaks on the system he likes to play at Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Real Madrid clinch a close 1-0 victory to Athletic Bilbao in the La Liga last night, Carlo Ancelotti speaks about his favourite system which he likes to play at Madrid. The manager who is expected to leave the club after the Copa del Rey finals in the upcoming days, is not giving up on his team as he wants to leave the team in a better position in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid edged past Athletic Bilbao with a tight 1-0 victory in La Liga last night, thanks to a disciplined performance that once again highlighted Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s tactical expertise. After the match, the veteran Italian manager opened up about his preferred formation \u2014 the 4-4-2 \u2014 which he believes offers the best defensive stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favourite system is the 4-4-2. We defend better. It\u2019s the best system to defend,\u201d Ancelotti said during the post-match press conference. His tactical choice paid off as Los Blancos kept a clean sheet against a dangerous Bilbao side.<\/p>\n<p>With Ancelotti expected to part ways with the club following the Copa del Rey final in the coming days, the 64-year-old is determined to leave on a high note. \u201cI want to leave this team in a strong position,\u201d he added, reaffirming his commitment to the squad despite the looming end to his tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Real Madrid clinch a close 1-0 victory to Athletic Bilbao in the La Liga last night, Carlo Ancelotti speaks about his favourite system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3985,1966,661,2026,3796,3919,266],"class_list":["post-15232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ancelotti-sack","tag-athletic-bilbao","tag-barcelona","tag-carlo-ancelotti","tag-football","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}