Ancelotti's press conference
Ancelotti: (One point?) "We must take it. A difficult game. We tried to play but it was not so easy, Atleti played very rude it was difficult to get out of that. Our second half was very good."
"On the First half, after Karim's goal, we tried to defend high up, but we let Atletico get back into the game."
Ancelotti about changes: "Arbeloa and Coentrao were fresh, I lined up them and the last 30 minutes we needed more pressure so Carvajal and Marcelo."
"Atletico had more difficulties to defend on the second half because we changed many times our front line, from left to right."
"We were not patient with our play on the first half. They were more tired on the second half."
Ancelotti (You said Atleti played 'rude', did you mean 'intense' or 'violent'?) "I mean Atletico tried to put a violent match. Not our style, I only asked the 4th referee about the stoppage time. Not an easy game to referee."
"We lost the ball too easily during the first half, that's why Atleti could get back into the game."
"Wrong line up? No, I'm the person that thinks the most about what players to line up."
"Our response to a violent game? Try just to play, to think only of playing and not of other things."
"We drawn a game after being down. We can be happy, Atletico are a great team especially at home. Now we are leading and we have 7 more games at home and 5 away - so we must consider this as well.