Real Madrid is located in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey this season after the dramatic 3-2 quarter-final against Leganes on Wednesday evening.
Leganes fights directly over La Liga’s relegation zone.
Madrid replaced the replacement of Gonzalo Garcia in the third minute of the after -life period and eliminates the need for an extension, with a nearby finish in death.
How the game unfolds
Luka Modric fired the European Champions in the 18th minute and played out of its usual role to hit the measured pass from Rodrygo in the box. The 39-year-old ran perfectly onto the ball and was able to nudge the finish beyond the reach of the home goalkeeper Juan Soriano.
Endrick followed a few moments later with a second for Madrid, 21 years old, who remarkably separate the scorers in old age. Rodrygo was the creator out of the left flank again, but it took a few short passes on the edge of the box before the ball was over for a simple finish.
But Leganes managed to push her way back when Jacobo Ramon’s rawness showed his first senior start. The young defender slipped in to try Juan Cruz ‘tried to block Low Cross. He managed to stop the ball, but only with his outstretched hand.
Cruz appeared to convert the resulting stain kick before the same player fired legan’s level at the hour. Cruz ‘exchange of several passes with Darko Brasanac moved the ball too easily through Madrid’s static defense, and the rejected finish was sufficient to injure Andriy Lunin from Wrongfoot.
Vinicius Junior was from the bank to save the tie and suggested the post for Madrid to a personal mission to pull through his team. The wing player blinded and put the ball into the box on a plate so that no teammate capitalized before she set up Brahim Diaz to hit the bar.
Leganes had some of her own chances of getting ahead, especially Lunin in a great late rescue, which turned out to be even more important when Garcia made a hero with a header from Brahim’s cross.
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Gonzalo Garcia was productive for Real Madrid Castilla this season, but the first team’s 20-year-old Madridista gathering experience of the first team before it was two replacement appearances from La Liga 14 months ago on Wednesday evening before the late cameo appearance.
Garcia was on the bench a few times this season, but did not have to get on the field until Ancelotti turned to him with eight minutes and the link.
Trust would have flowed anyway, since he only brought four in a Castilla game last week, but a winning goal for the senior side in this way … He will be firm on Cloud Nine.
The Copa del Rey is no longer a third largest priority this season, but it still represents a big cutlery – especially after the Barcelona is humiliated in the latest Supercopa de Espana.
Madrid tends to achieve only one final in this competition – that they won in 2023 in the past ten years. In the same period, Barcelona played six finals and lifted the trophy five times.
It becomes difficult in the Champions League because the paper is the defensive line. Madrid sits as high as it, but a lack of depth in run-in could also bite there. The Copa del Rey could be the best chance to avoid a season without a trophy (without UEFA Super Cup from last summer).
RFEF will be pulled for the semi -finals on February 12th, with Atletico Madrid the only other page has done so far. Real Sociedad’s conflict with Osasuna and Barcelona’s trip to Valencia are the remaining quarter -finals that will be played on Thursday evening.
Antonio Ruder was the constant in Madrid’s constantly changing backline this season. But the German central defender was dropped by Espanyol just 15 minutes after the frustrating defeat on Sunday. This means that a complete back of four top caliber is now failing, with Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao and David Alaba are also missing -two of them for the rest of the season.
Rudiger is only allowed to return in the last phases of February. There is ancelotti a problem because the lack of a defensive guide does not have a factor for the opposite of twice as it was.
Aurelien Tchouameni appeared in midfield from the start, but the Frenchman tended to be in the heart of defense. Even if this remains the case in the coming games, one of Raul Ascio or Jacobo Ramon, who has given away a penalty here, must begin next to him. The alternative is that the inexperienced young people play together as they did against Leganes.
What does Jesus Vallejo have to think? He is in the squad this season to compensate for the numbers, but still cannot get a game in a real central defense crisis.
Another COPA AUSTION, another destination from Endrick.
The initial hype about the Brazilian in teenage is covered because they were largely held back in La Liga and the Champions League. Sporadic replacement minutes have remained in these competitions, but there were three sensible phenomena and count in the Copa del Rey.
Patience is a virtue and the 18-year-old may have more than a decade of professional football in front of him. Vinicius Junior was not immediately a hit, so Endrick doesn’t have to do everything and have everything at once. This is actually okay for the time being.