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Let in the decisive goal with one more man
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On weekdays they usually face teams like Ibiza.
But on Wednesday night, Alcoyano from Division 3 was responsible for this year’s explosion.
Real Madrid has already been eliminated from the Copa del Rey in the round of 16.
Alcoi, a city of about 60,000 inhabitants, is located about ten kilometers south of Valencia.
It was where Real Madrid stood for a huge cup fiasco on Wednesday night.
In the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, Alcoyano, who are in the Spanish third division and face teams like Ibiza on a daily basis, faced an outbreak that probably affects the Richter scale.
The Segunda B club held the bar against a rotating Madrid for 90 minutes and took the game into extra time after José Solbes tied Eder Militao’s first goal, from the first half, ten minutes from the end. This despite the fact that Zinedine Zidane felt compelled to replace Karim Benzema, Eden Hazard, Toni Kroos and Marco Asensio during the match.
I have a red card
To that is added that players like Marcelo, Isco, Federico Valverde and Casemiro played from the beginning.
However, they were repeatedly denied by Alcoyano’s only player with La Liga merits, 41-year-old goalkeeper José Juan Figueras, who made a great effort between the posts.
During extra time, the home team sent off a player. But despite one man less, 30-year-old Juanan Casanova was able to score the winning goal with five minutes to go and take Real Madrid out of the cup match.
“You must not go crazy”
The scenes of joy did not reach limits when the final whistle sounded at the El Collao Stadium.
– The ultimate responsibility rests with me. Of course we will beat a Second B team, but that’s the way it is. Sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down. We must not go crazy about this, says Zidane in the subsequent press conference.
However, this is not the first time that Real Madrid has withdrawn from the cup against a Second B team. In 2009, a Real was surprised with players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Guti and Kaká in the squad when they fell 4-0 to the Alcorcón. That departure is still deeply rooted in the history of the great club and is commonly called “Alcorconazo”.
A few weeks ago, Atlético de Madrid also came out of the cup against a third division team in the form of Cornella.
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