Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has explained why he hardly gave instructions to Cristiano Ronaldo before a game.
After a few seasons of struggling in Europe, Ancelotti led Los Blancos to the UEFA Champions League title in 2016, ending a 14-year drought.
Ronaldo was key in Ancelotti's succes at the Santiago Bernabeu and also for the last 10 years, but the Italian tactician claims he never needed to give the player defensive instructions.
"You don't have to build a team around Cristiano Ronaldo and as I said with Zidane, you have to put them in the more comfortable way on the pitch," he told Sky Sports.
"I don't think you have to build strict tactics with this player defensively because there are players who are more involved in the attacking phase and there are players who have to be involved more in the defensive phase.
"Of course, they have to work together because the team is the most important part of the game, but strikers like Ronaldo who are able to score every single game, you don't have to give too much information defensively.
"It is the easiest way to be a manager, to manage a fantastic player because they are professional, they are serious, they have personality, they are motivated so it is the easiest way.
"Sergio Ramos also has a fantastic quality. I think his best quality he has is not tactically, it's not technically, it's character and the personality that he has and the ability he has to motivate the people around him, like his team-mates.
"Ramos during that period was important for this, he was always at the top when the game was important and in the key moment of the games."
