Carlo Ancelotti’s Real Madrid once again showed its worst face in the Copa del Rey. A goal from Berenguer at the buzzer was enough for Athletic Club to achieve the feat and get the ticket for the semifinals.
The whites, who lead in LaLiga and are in the knockout stages of the Champions League, they were once again left out of the fight for the title, as has already happened in the previous seven editions. They add a total of eight consecutive seasons falling in the previous rounds. This is the second worst streak in the club’s history: only between 1948 and 1957 was more time without achieving the title (10).
The team from the capital has fallen to Atlético de Madrid (2014/15), Cádiz (2015/16), Celta (2016/17), Leganés (2017/18), FC Barcelona (2018/19), Real Sociedad (2018/20), Alcoyano (2020/ 21) and Athletic Club (2021/22).
No triplet option
With the elimination in the Copa del Rey, the whites have run out of triplet options, the great illusion of the white entity. The defeat against Athletic Club it is an unexpected setback in Carlo Ancelotti’s project, who wanted to achieve the first in the club’s history.
8 seasons for Madrid without reaching the Cup final:
2014-15 (Atletico)
2015-16 (Cadiz)
2016-17 (Celtic)
2017-18 (Leganes)
2018-19 (Barça)
2019-20 (Royal Society)
2020-21 (Alcoyan)
2021-22 (Athletics)– Pedro Martin (@pedritonumeros) February 3, 2022
The team from the capital faces the second leg of the 2021/22 season with his mind set on LaLiga, where he is the leader with a four-point advantage over Sevilla, and the Champions League, where he already has the ticket for the round of 16, where PSG awaits Neymar, Messi and Mbappé.