Madrid’s Ancelotti likely to miss Chelsea match
Real Madrid will likely be without coach Carlo Ancelotti for the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals against Chelsea because of COVID-19.
Ancelotti tested positive for the coronavirus last week and did not travel to London with the rest of the squad on Tuesday.
There was a possibility he could still make it for Wednesday’s match if he tests negative in time to travel.
Ancelotti had already missed the team’s 2-1 win over Celta Vigo in the Spanish league on Saturday, when assistant coach Davide Ancelotti, his son, was among those in charge.
“He’s a big, big coach, big personality,” Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel said. “It would be nice to have him on the sideline in these kinds of games.”
Ancelotti, who had minor symptoms of COVID-19, is trying to win his second Champions League with Madrid after helping the club lift the European trophy in 2014.
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