Real Madrid Needing To Win The El Clásico Makes Barcelona The Favorite – Eric Garcia

Popular football analyst, Eric Garcia has come out to say that Carlo Ancelotti might need to tweak his formation to finally beat Barcelona this season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, there is no player in the world who can stop Mbappe and Vinicius when they run at you, so Ancelotti might need to tweak his formation to set both players free to run at defenders and create goalscoring chances.

Eric added that anything can happen with Real Madrid during the El Clásico, even if the club has not had a style of play for several years.

His words, “We heard what [Carlo] Ancelotti was saying and mentioning about trying to change the shape, 4-4-2, more defensive, and then leave those two players. No one has pushed Kylian Mbappe or Vinicius Jr to defend. Ancelotti tried, he couldn’t make it happen. So at some point you have to decide, “I cannot make them track back.” In the football of today, if one player is not running and chasing you’re gonna be at a disadvantage.

At some point, you’re gonna realize that one player makes a lot of difference. You’ll struggle, because your pressure is not good, because you’re not tracking back, because they’ve got one more player in the middle of the park. If you finally decide, “OK, I understand that, so I have to make a shape or a structure strong enough to leave those two players up front.” You know that they want to make the difference. The moment that those players have the ball, every single team in the world is going to be afraid of the run, of the space. The moment that they start facing you, they’re unstoppable. There is no player in the world that can stop them when they face you.

We’ve seen it so many times. What happened? Real Madrid arrived to a point where the buildup is not good, the structure is a little bit weak, a lot of injuries. Of course, that’s not something that can help. But for Real Madrid, it’s been quite a few years and we haven’t seen an idea or philosophy or something that you could say, “OK, this is a Real Madrid team.” We have got used to this “They’re gonna come back because of the history or the background or the badge or whatever,” but we got used to that. They’re not playing well. But in the end, they will make it. Even saying that, they’ve been fighting for everything, and they still have a chance to win at the weekend. Anything can happen. It’s Real Madrid, so that’s the way it is.

Tough, tough question! As always, it’s always a special game. It’s always a game that is very difficult to play in. Doesn’t matter how Real Madrid arrives. We saw last year Jude Bellingham arrived, bang, and that’s it. But the way that Barcelona are playing at the moment, and because of the situation, the desperation that Real Madrid needs to win, I think that makes Barcelona a little bit more of a favorite. So if I have to go for one result, I will go for a 2-1 win for Barcelona, and probably that will be the end of the title race.”

WOW.

Kylian Mbappe Lottin (born 20 December 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the France national team. Regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is renowned for his dribbling abilities, exceptional speed, and finishing.

Kylian Mbappé Lottin was born on 20 December 1998 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris and was raised in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. His father, Wilfrid , is originally from Cameroon, and, as well as being his agent, is a football coach. His mother, Fayza Lamari, is of Algerian Kabyle origin and is a former handball player.

He has a younger brother, Ethan, who plays in the Paris Saint-Germain Academy. Their older adoptive brother, Jirès Kembo Ekoko, is a former professional footballer.

On 22 February 2018, Mbappé was joined by former African strikers George Weah and Didier Drogba in a meeting with French President, Emmanuel Macron and FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the Élysée Palace in Paris, which focused on a sports development project in Africa. Mbappé stated that the development of African sport is important to him due to his parents’ African origins.