Ancelotti: Madrid still have 'chance' to win LaLiga

Carlo Ancelotti said that Real Madrid aren't retired of the LaLiga rubric contention aft their daze 2-1 location decision to Valencia connected Saturday.

Mouctar Diakhaby's header enactment the visitors up successful the 15th infinitesimal astatine the Santiago Bernabéu, aft Vinícius Júnior had missed an aboriginal penalty.

The Brazil guardant levelled successful the 2nd half, earlier Hugo Duro scored a melodramatic 95th infinitesimal winner, to springiness relegation-threatened Valencia their archetypal triumph astatine the Bernabéu successful 17 years.

The nonaccomplishment leaves Madrid 3 points down league leaders Barcelona -- who big Betis aboriginal connected Saturday -- with the 2 giants inactive to conscionable successful El Clásico connected May 11.

"It's overmuch much hard to combat for the league, but we person lone 1 idea, to bash good until the end," Ancelotti said successful his postmatch quality conference. "We inactive person a chance. It's little aft this game, but we person to combat until the end."

The league isn't Madrid's lone remaining accidental of a large trophy this season. They'll besides play Barça successful the Copa del Rey last connected April 26, and sojourn Arsenal successful the archetypal limb of their Champions League quarterfinal with Arsenal connected Tuesday.

Young goalkeeper Fran González, 19, made his Madrid debut against Valencia, but Ancelotti said some archetypal prime Thibaut Courtois and lawman Andriy Lunin could retrieve from wounded to diagnostic astatine the Emirates.

"Today Courtois trained and felt good, and time he'll bid too," Ancelotti said. "Lunin, with the uncertainty with Courtois, we didn't hazard him. He'll person 2 oregon 3 days to effort to recover, and past we'll spot for Tuesday. I deliberation we could person some of them back."

There were immoderate whistles for Vinícius from the Bernabéu assemblage connected Saturday aft his punishment miss -- and earlier his extremity -- but Ancelotti said the Ballon d'Or runner-up wouldn't beryllium affected.

"I don't deliberation so," Ancelotti said. "Vinicius is precise focused connected what he's doing, helium tin play good oregon badly, but helium ever tries to springiness everything."

Valencia manager Carlos Corberán was appointed successful December with the squad connected conscionable 13 points and looking apt to spell down, but they're present 15th, 7 wide of 3 driblet zone.

The triumph astatine the Bernabéu was Valencia's archetypal distant triumph successful LaLiga successful astir a year.

"To get a effect present you person to bash everything perfectly," Corberán said. "The top restitution is for the fans, who've suffered truthful much. I cognize what this nine is, and we owed the fans a effect similar this. They've shown america large support, and this effect is for them. We hadn't won distant for a agelong time. The fans person suffered. We wanted to springiness thing backmost to them."