Atlético de Madrid is once again writing a page in its black history with the Copa del Rey. The author is, for the third time in the last eleven years, un Second Division B team: Cornellà.
The three eliminations at the hands of teams of Second B have come since 2011 when Albacete, in a double game, ended the team then trained by Gregorio Manzano and that gave way to the arrival of Diego Pablo Simeone. With the Argentine on the bench, the rojiblanco noise has occurred in the last two seasons against the Cultural and Sports Leonesa in 2020 and this Wednesday in front of Cornellà.
He Atlético de Madrid they have been eliminated eleven times by teams of lesser category. The three of Second B were teams that played in the silver category as Sporting (1936), Real society (1941), Valladolid (1942), Basconia (1962), Lightning (1981), Majorca (1982). While Deportivo Castellón (1930) and Valladolid (1931) they eliminated the rojiblancos being Third teams, according to data from Mister Chip.
The rojiblancos have more black pages in the KO tournament. It was the 2001/02 season with Atleti in the Second Division and Luis Aragonés on his bench when Rayo Vallecano, then in First, eliminated the rojiblancos winning at the Vicente Calderón by 1-3. A season later, with the mattresses in First, were eliminated in quarters by a Recreativo de Huelva who reached the final and went to Second in the same season