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Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid was kicked out of the Copa Del Rey by a third division team
Harry Clarke
Real Madrid fell after a 2-1 loss to the 10 men of third division Alcoyano in humiliatingly from the Copa del Rey.
Real manager Zinedine Zidane had warned that there would be no easy game before the tie, and his decision to rest a multitude of stars failed spectacularly.
Alcoyano Defender Jose Solbes forced another half an hour by canceling Eder Militao’s opener 10 minutes before the end.
Zidane responded with Eden Hazard, Toni Kroos and Marco Asensio. After Ramon Lopez was fired for the hosts, Juanan scored a historic winning goal within just five minutes.
Real traveled to the Estadio El Collao without Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane and Luka Modric, while Karim Benzema, Kroos and Hazard next to the first-class goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois were on the bench.
The 19-time cup winners could not convince all evening, but seemed to have done enough to get into the last 16, thanks to the Brazilian defender Militao, who at halftime the A dead end broke.
As the clock ran out, Solbes intervened in a dramatic manner by steering the ball past Real’s debutant keeper Andrey Lunin.
Zidane turned to his bench to avoid embarrassing embarrassment , but the changes didn’t have the desired effect.
Alcoyano’s hopes of getting a second La Liga scalp of the season after Huesca were eliminated in the preliminary round were hit when S. Tower Lopez showed a second yellow card in the 110th minute.
Nevertheless, they managed to overcome this setback, thanks to the decisive end of midfielder Juanan, sending their illustrious visitors back to the capital ashamed and Zidane facing some unpleasant questions put.
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