The coach, with no players on board, appeared to have hit a lorry
The coach, with no players on board, appeared to have hit a lorry
Police have responded after Real Madrid's coach was involved in a crash.
The team bus was spotted having been involved in the incident with footage captured showing the stationary coach after it appeared to have collided with a lorry. Warwickshire Police responded to reports of a collision between a car, lorry and the La Liga champions' bus on the M40, near Warwick.
All parties involved avoided serious injury, with none of Real Madrid's stars on the bus following their defeat to Liverpool at Anfield. Los Blancos flew home but the coach will have been planned to transport the teams' equipment back to Spain's capital, with the M40 being the typical route taken to reach the coast from the north west.
Warwickshire Police said: “Our officers responded to reports of a collision involving a car, a lorry, and the coach of a well-known football team on the M40 southbound between junction 16 for Hockley Heath and junction 15 for Warwick.
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“Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured. The players from the well-known football team were not on the coach at the time.”
Carlo Ancelotti's team are now skirting with a Champions League exit after five of eight matches in the group stage. Real sit 24th in the table with six points, the final spot that would see qualification for a play-off.
Liverpool meanwhile are set to go straight through to the last 16 in the competition having produced a perfect record thus far. The 2-0 win over the most recent European champions sees the Reds top of proceedings, two points clear of second-placed Inter.
The Real Madrid coach was in the middle of the M40 broken down after the incident
The Real Madrid coach was in the middle of the M40 broken down after the incident
Liverpool boss Arne Slot was impressed with his side's display against Real Madrid but the Dutchman is not getting carried away. The ex-Feyenoord coach has bigger aspiratons.
"I think it’s always good to win a game, and especially a big game like this because you know you face so many quality players," he said. "For me, it would even mean more if we go into the later stages of the tournament because this is such a strange and different set-up in the Champions League that it’s difficult to judge how important these wins are.
Carlo Ancelotti speaks to the media after Real Madrid's loss to Liverpool
"If we arrive in the last 16 or the quarter-finals or wherever we can arrive to and we face them again and then we are able to beat them, that would be maybe a bigger statement than this. But we are definitely happy with the win, let that be clear."
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