Records Broken by Carlo Ancelotti After Real Madrid’s Spanish Super Cup Triumph
Written by Olaleye Oluwadamilola
Real Madrid won the Spanish Super Cup final 4-1 against Barcelona, and they celebrated their victory with the first trophy of the season. It was a great Sunday night in Riyadh.
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It turned out that Carlo Ancelotti and Florentino Perez had a historic evening. Regarding the former, he managed his 33rd major trophy triumph while in office, surpassing 32-year-old Santiago Bernabeu to become the president with the most titles in Real Madrid history, further solidifying his reputation at Los Blancos.
It was Ancelotti’s eleventh significant honor as Real Madrid’s head coach. In terms of titles won, he now shares the second-highest record as a manager in club history with Zinedine Zidane. At the end of the season, he will undoubtedly be confident in his ability to surpass his former protégé, which will allow him to break Miguel Munoz’s record (14).
The Italian has won 2 Champions League, 2 Club World Cups, 2 European Super Cups, 1 La Liga, 2 Copa del Rey and 2 Spanish Super Cups. His trophy haul makes him the Real Madrid coach who has won the second most trophies in the history of the club, level with Zidane. Miguel Muñoz is the first, with 14. His record is 192 wins, 34 draws and 38 defeats.
He has won these 11 titles in 264 matches, a tally that ranks him as the coach who has overseen the second most matches in the club’s history. Ancelotti drew level with Zidane in the Super Cup Clasico and only trails Miguel Muñoz (605). Ancelotti’s games at Real Madrid have come in La Liga (171), Champions League (56), Copa del Rey (23), Spanish Super Cup (8), Club World Cup (4) and European Super Cup (2).
Ancelotti has a great potential of leaving Real Madrid as the team’s most successful manager of all time, considering he only recently agreed to a two-year contract extension. It would be doubly deserved if he could.
Meanwhile…
Those who witnessed Real Madrid’s crushing of Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup final on Sunday saw that, aside from their strategy, the Catalans’ main shortcoming was a glaring lack of a strong pivot. Oriol Romeu is the only natural for the part, but he didn’t participate in Riyadh because to unsatisfactory previous performances.
Deeper roles were expected of Frenkie de Jong and Ilkay Gundogan, as they have for the majority of the season. But ultimately, as it has been for a good few months, it was evident that Real Madrid could play around or around them with too much ease. This was Barcelona’s main issue.
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Due to Barcelona’s persistent financial difficulties, only Romeu was able to be signed as a “replacement.” Sergio Busquets is a major loss for the team. Head coach Xavi Hernandez hopes to discuss the matter once more this month, but as Sport has revealed, he won’t be able to because the team’s financial difficulties will keep them from signing a top-tier pivot.
This indicates that Barcelona’s midfield imbalance will not go away for the remainder of the season, or at least not under Xavi, who knows how to deal with it when he has it.
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