The Real Madrid Starts this Wednesday (9:00 p.m.) before the Unionists in The Tracks attached to Him Helmantic his journey in the new Copa del Rey with his dueling round of 16. The KO tournament, just like the Spain Supercup, it has changed its format and now a single game is played until the semifinals and in the stadium of the lower category team – if they match, the local will decide the order of extraction of the balls.
The white team does not raise the title since 2014, the season of double with the Tenth Champions, when imposed on Barcelona in Mestalla (1-2) with Carlo Ancelotti on the bench and with Zinedine Zidane as second. Now, the French coach wants to conquer her as first coach after not having achieved it as a player or as a director of the white ship.
Zizou live a real curse with the Cup and he suffers from his stage as a Real Madrid player. In the only final he played, he fell to the Deportivo de la Coruña (1-2) in Santiago Bernabeu in the centenary edition of Madrid, in the 2001-2002 season. The results do not improve as a coach, rather they get worse. (Madrid returns to training with the mind in the Copa del Rey)
The Marseille coach, with the cessation of Rafa Benitez, promoted the first white team in January 2016, weeks after the Madrid was expelled from the Cup for improper alignment of Cheryshev before him Cádiz in the Ramón de Carranza in the out of round of 16. In the following season, he was eliminated before the Celtic of Vigo (1-2 in the Bernabéu and 2-2 in Balaidos), which made him run out of triplet after the conquest of LaLiga and the Twelfth Champions.
His “worst night” as a coach of Real Madrid before living a new opportunity
So Zidane he planted in his last season with the aim of winning it, but his “worst night” on the Madrid bench deprived him of conquering it. The Madrid won the first leg of the quarterfinals against Leganés (0-1) in Butarquebut incomprehensibly shorted in the lap in the Bernabeu and fell with a crash (1-2).
Now, the white coach has a new opportunity to get it and starts this Wednesday before the Unionists, team of group II of Second B, away from home, so do not want any trust and will go to Salamanca with important players, who give you full guarantees to overcome this first round. Areola, Militao, Nacho, Odriozola, Isco, James, Bale, Vinicius or Jovic, among others, may be in el 11 ’against the charro team. This is the Zidane Cup and the ‘headlines’.