Real Madrid suffered an unusually challenging defeat on Tuesday evening in the Champions League against Arsenal and lost 3-0 to two Declan Rice Strikes supplemented with a third nice finish by Mikel Merino. Although Los Blancos has suffered heavy defeats earlier in Europe, they have rarely been so heavy in the first stage, so that they even have a long task according to their standards. It has been revealed that Jude Bellingham, Fede Valverde, Vinicius Junior and Kylian Mbappe spoke after the game after the game with the rest of the team in the dressing room in the dressing room.
The general atmosphere, as described by El Chiringuito, was one of surprise and shock. Valverde was the first to speak and asked, “What happened to us?” However, the message that followed was that the players had to show who they are, to show their DNA and show that “we really are Madrid.” Their sense of identity came to the fore during the after-decks, in which the rest of the team reminded that 'we have 15 champions competitions'.
The message that looked ahead to the second stage was already aimed at a comeback. 'If we score in the first 15 minutes, we will come back' – 'we will come back' was the last sentence pronounced from the motivating speech, and that was confronted with an applause by the rest of the dressing room.
During their press obligations after the competition, Jude Bellingham noted that if there is one location that tends to accommodate wonderful comebacks, it is the Santiago Bernabeu, despite a general frustration. In the meantime, Mbappe almost looked stunned by the suggestion that they could not come back when he left the stadium. The bad news is that although Dani Ceballos was part of their training session on Thursday, he and Ferland Mendy will both miss the second stage against Arsenal.