Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\nThe England star now has 10 goals in 10 league matches this season – making him the division’s top scorer – and 13 in all competitions after netting three in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe looks like a veteran, his attitude is very good,\u201d Ancelotti said. \u201cThe equalizer completely changed the dynamic, it meant more strength for us and more weakness for Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwho were playing better until then.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellingham’s midfield partner Luka Modric added to his boss’s praise.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how to explain it,\u201d Modric said. “He came in and it feels like he’s been there for a long time. He fell on his feet. We’re all happy with his performance, his personality, who he is.<\/p>\n
“It is not a coincidence [what he’s doing]. He’s a great kid, an extraordinary talent. Even he can’t believe the goals he scores.”<\/p>\n
Madrid struggled in the first half, failing to register a single shot on target.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told them you can lose these games, but if we were to lose we had to do it differently,\u201d Ancelotti said when asked about his half-time team speech. “More energy, more motivation, better in duels. From what they did in the second half, [the team] agree with what I said.”<\/p>\n
Ancelotti, however, said the team should not rely on Bellingham’s goals and called on forwards Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior \u2013 who has two La Liga goals this season \u2013 and Rodrygo Goes \u2013 who has one \u2013 to contribute.<\/p>\n
“20 to 25 goals, [Bellingham] “He started well, but we don’t see him as a goalscorer, we think he is a very important player for us who is scoring a lot of goals at the moment. We also need goals from the strikers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ancelotti, Madrid ‘surprised’ by Bellingham scoring heroics\u060c Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez October 28, 2023, 6:07 p.m. Carlo Ancelotti said he was “surprised” by Jude Bellingham’s continued goalscoring form after the Real Madrid midfielder scored twice in the 2-1. El ClAsico win against Barcelona on Saturday, saying that “right now he’s the one who makes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3597,1539,3924,2184,966,3923],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-ancelotti","tag-bellingham","tag-heroics","tag-madrid","tag-scoring","tag-surprised"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}