Brazil's bid to make Carlo Ancelotti their first foreign coach will hinge on Real Madrid 's Champions League fate.
Madrid face Chelsea in the quarter-finals and the European champions are hot favourites to progress after Frank Lampard was made interim boss at Stamford Bridge following Graham Potter’s ruthless sacking. But Ancelotti’s future at the Bernabeu is also coming under scrutiny after a miserable La Liga campaign that has seen them fail to keep pace with Barcelona at the top of the table.
And although Madrid hammered Barca 4-0 in the Nou Camp in midweek to overcome a first-leg deficit and book a place in the Copa del Rey final, failure to defend the crown they claimed for the 14th time by beating Liverpool in Paris last summer is likely to bring consequences.
