Barcelona“Ancelotti is a gentleman. He said that he didn’t understand Nacho’s actions and that he was very surprised that he asked for our forgiveness. It’s a very hard attack, there’s no reason for it and it doesn’t look good,” he explained to Míchel in the Montilivi press room. The Real Madrid player’s attack against Porto came a minute before the end of the game when the score was 0-3 and ended with the striker in hospital. It’s impossible to justify Nacho’s entry because it’s indefensible and Real Madrid haven’t even tried. The only person to talk to is Carlo Ancelotti, no player speaks after the games because that is what the club has decided – i.e. Florentino Pérez – who follows his pulse with Javier Tebas. The engineer regretted the incident and described his captain’s behavior as a “lack of clarity.” And Nacho? Well, hours later he concluded the matter with a short message on his Instagram account: “I would like to apologize to Porto for an involuntary action in the game. Today and throughout my career, I have never intended to hurt anyone. I hope you can recover well and quickly.”
He will know which cable he crossed to get onto the plank with his leg raised, but it is clear that the action was not involuntary, even if he did not mean to injure himself. The lack of explanations, his inability to come forward and face the cameras worsens the situation and puts him in a very bad position. It wasn’t that hard to apologize out of hand, like Carlo Ancelotti did. The clamor on social networks to compare Nacho’s aggression with other entries to judge whether it is more or less serious is a futile exercise typical of eexelarious fans; A world full of men who strive to be the alphas, who don’t listen to reasons, especially when those reasons don’t even exist. The image of Real Madrid, which Florentino Pérez is so worried about, is also being damaged, as is the progressive bunkerization of the club he heads, due to his power struggles with the president of the LFP – which in turn also limits the freedom of journalists when broadcasting on television so that they Not asking what they want or not concentrating on the market, for example – leaves a panorama in which the speaker ends up being one of the fanatics.
