"Camavinga has a Ferrari engine"

Real Madrid's Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti highlighted the difficulty of the current schedule and the fixture load for a team fighting for everything, winning La Liga and Champions League in the same season, and admitted that "it's quite complicated", but made it clear that they will not give up in the domestic competition.

"Winning the double in a season is not so easy. The truth is that there are teams who see La Liga as a bit more complicated and put all their minds on the European competition, which is not the case for us, but it can happen. Winning LaLiga and the Champions League is quite complicated," he said at the press conference.

Ancelotti recalled before starting his appearance that it was his 101st press conference of the season. In it, he began by praising his next opponents Girona, who are the fifth best home team in La Liga.

"Girona play very nice football. They are a very well organised team, especially on the ball. They keep possession well and at home they've done very well," said Ancelotti, who will rotate his starting line-up and has five players out for the game.

Among the absentees were France's Karim Benzema and Eduardo Camavinga, who has become a regular starter. Ancelotti was full of praise for the 20-year-old Frenchman and the qualities he is showing in every game he plays.

"Camavinga, like all young players, is progressing and taking advantage of the time he has played as a full-back to improve his limits. He is very young, he has to mature his knowledge of the tactical aspect because technically he has nothing to learn and physically he has a Ferrari engine, not a Cinquecento," he said.