- Odegaard marked the first, without celebration, thanks to an Areola ruling
- In the second half, Isak broke loose to score two straight and sentence
- Marcelo cut, Merino put the room and Rodrygo and Nacho the emotion
Again Zidane runs out of Copa del Rey. Although Real Madrid came with everything in favor and in a run of 21 undefeated games, Real Sociedad knew how to make a perfect match to dislodge the whites (3-4), eliminate them in the Bernabéu and sneak into the semifinals complying with The third surprise of the quarterfinals. Isak, double and participating in the other two goals, was a nightmare that culminated Odegaard and Merino, while Marcelo, Rodrygo and Nacho put the risk of comeback.
The Royal Society has suddenly turned around the future of Spanish football. Before a Madrid that saw them all with him, on a roll and seeing from the distance the evils of his eternal rival, those of Imanol Alguacil went out to the quarterfinals without fear of anything and knowing that this tournament is bearing one surprise after another. Little did the final arrear merengue longing for comeback times, because the Basques defended themselves with everything to make the bank jump and go to Granada and Mirandés.
Started Zidane surprised with Brahim and James as starters and placing Nacho and Fede Valverde as Carvajal and Casemiro, both down, and in the end this ended up displacing an irregular Madrid during the first part. Because during the initial 45 minutes, the locals could not find themselves on the pitch, yes, pressing very high but only with a Vinicius that offered something different before the jam and spider web of Sheriff on Benzema.
Therefore, the Real sought to leave playing from behind to then take the danger to the bands of Januzaj and Oyarzabal, in addition to Odegaard and Isak that fell there from time to time. Precisely with these last two and with the Swedish facing from the right a soft Marcelo, the first came both after about 20 minutes of few occasions. Isak shot from afar, Areola rejected the center badly and the Norwegian talent picked up to shoot and take advantage of the French goal's failure that failed to drive the ball, slipping it between his legs.
Odegaard did not celebrate it out of respect for the club to which one day, sooner rather than later, he will return with the intention of succeeding and the Bernabéu thanked him with a weak ovation. But back to football, those of Zidane continued unduly disturbing the arc of a Remiro that only had to be stretched in two distant shots of James and Fede Valverde. Meanwhile, Isak woke up nightmares every time he went against it and Vinicius remained unremarkable merengue before the break.
After the break, Isak went into combustion
Because the break was coming and when Real returned doubled his bet. Imanol removed Januzaj by Berrenetxea to do more damage per band, Odegaard invented a pass that only Isak in an illegal position prevented from finishing in the second and the next the Swedish unleashed the madness. The newly entered canterano left Nacho on the left, put the center back and the forward, with an acrobatic kick, sent him to the bottom of the net.
Second passed the 50th minute and the Bernabéu with the elimination alert set that, again Isak, would become a reality. Two minutes later, after a series of rejections, the ball fell to Areola and without thinking it shot the Frenchman with the third one that left Zidane's ice cream.
A French coach who did not believe it and had already taken James by Modric, at rest, to try to have more verticality. However, Casemiro's absence was very noticeable in defense and Madrid was a powder magazine. But, in the first clear that he was going to have in the second act, the locals began to awaken the long-awaited spirit of the comebacks.
Brahim, one who always gives more than he receives, caracoleó on the edge of the area, put the center towards Marcelo and the side, who still has what he lost in defense for a long time, hit hard so that Remiro could not avoid the First in your network. The Bernabéu waking up and Vinicius, in another one on his own, leaving after five minutes of all the rivals he was in and then touching the left squad in his shot.
The encounter had already gone mad, but the Real one had not yet dampened and five minutes later he returned to fish for the mistakes behind merengues. Isak left Marcelo, put the ball in the open and before the passivity behind, Merino beat Areola at will to give a blow of reality to the white fief.
Madrid invoked the comebacks … to die on the shore
No to the risk of comeback, because there were 20 minutes left and that is always very long in the Bernabéu. Hanging on Vinicius, those of Zidane threw themselves with everything, Rodrygo and Jovic entered, Ramos put on a dovecote and the bugles sounded on a Real that he already knew that despite the three goals of difference he was going to have to suffer.
More when he saw that Vinicius took the second to the scoreboard, but with relief to see how the VAR canceled it out of play. Although not yet awakened from the first arreón, the Basques saw the next yes as the Brazilian left once again and Rodrygo received his pass back to shorten distances.
Ten more minutes the additive and Imanol trying to calm his own who were saved in a high header from Militao. There were no legs for cons, but to defend themselves with everything in the area and there Madrid began to hang a ball after another only with Modric and Kroos commanding the comeback and the rest overturned on the field of the Real.
It would be in the discount when Nacho made the third. In a header of those that were so sought and with Madrid asking for more minutes to have another that forced the extension. That came to a Ramos that did not give the necessary impulse to the ball and ended up in the hands of Remiro. There the last one arrived, the Real breathed and the whites collided with blow and blow with the first major setback of the season.
Eliminated in the Copa del Rey quarters. In his stadium. Again the curse of a Zidane who escapes again the title that is missing. When everything looked good, the San Sebastian arrived to surprise in the tournament that only leaves bells. Granada first, Mirandés later, and Real Sociedad now. The new format does not let anyone breathe and the semifinals already take shape with those of Imanol dreaming of re-raising a trophy 33 years later.
DATA SHEET
– OUTCOME: Real Madrid 3-4 Real Sociedad (Marcelo 58 ', Rodrygo 80' and Nacho 92 ') (Odegaard 22', Isak 53 'and 55' and Merino 68 ').
– REAL MADRID: Areola, Nacho, Ramos, Militao, Marcelo, Fede Valverde (Jovic 75 '), Kroos, James (Modric 46'), Brahim (Rodrygo 75 '), Vinicius and Benzema.
– REAL SOCIETY: Remiro, Gorosabel, Elustondo, Le Normand, Monreal, Zubeldia, Mikel Merino, Odegaard (Guevara 63 '), Januzaj (Barrenetxea 46'), Oyarzabal and Isak (Aihen 69 ').
– REFEREE: Mateu Lahoz. He showed yellow to Militao at Real Madrid and to Odegaard, Le Normand, Zubeldia, Gorosabel and Oyarzabal at Real Sociedad. He expelled Gorosabel in the Royal Society.
– STADIUM: Santiago Bernabeu.