Scottish Daily Mail

Low-key Carlo gunning for his own quadruple

- By PETE JENSON

REAL Madrid have a 15-point lead at the top of La Liga and, if they open that up by just one more, Carlo Ancelotti will have won the title by the biggest margin in the club’s history. It’s an understate­ment to say inviting him to return from Everton last summer was a masterstro­ke. They have feasted so voraciousl­y on their rivals that he could enjoy his post-title cigar a full four games before the end of the season. It was fitting that he was seen smoking it on the open-top bus that toured the city last Saturday night surrounded by four players who illustrate perfectly the job he has done. Defenders David Alaba and Eder Militao have seamlessly replaced Raphael Varane and Sergio Ramos, while Brazilian forwards Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior have thrived under the 62-year-old Italian in a way they never did under Zinedine

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