Real Madrid boss, Carlo Ancelotti, has insisted his side will not take a defensive approach when they take on Liverpool in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League round-of-16 tie.

The Reds will travel to the Santiago Bernabeu to take on Madrid on Wednesday, with hopes of overturning the 5-2 loss from the first leg.

While speaking at a pre-match press conference, Ancelotti said he believes Liverpool will visit the Bernabeu with the intention to attack, but his side will not sit back to defend for the 90 minutes.

For Ancelotti, the message is clear – Real Madrid must win the tie at the Santiago Bernabéu.

“The message is clear,” Ancelotti told Madrid’s official website. “We don’t have to do any calculations, what we have to do is play as well as we can. We have to go into the game in the same way as we did in the first leg. We’re not thinking about what could happen, just playing with as much intensity and passion as we can to win the game.

“We’ve analysed what we did well and what we did badly in the first leg. We did a lot of good things, like the attacking side. We’re not going to go into the game thinking that we have the advantage, we’ll play an open game of attacking football. I think it’ll be an open game because Liverpool are coming here with the intention of turning the tie around. We have to play well in both areas: defending and attacking. We’re not thinking about defending, we’re thinking about attacking”.

He added: “Experience and energy are very important going into tomorrow’s game. It’s a more difficult game for us than for Liverpool on a mental level. They have to be at their best from the first minute no matter what. The result of the first leg asks questions for us, but we’ll do our best to push hard from the first minute, but we’ve got more to lose than our opponents in that respect”.