Real Madrid enters the final match of the King’s Cup of Spain, seeking to break the knot that has bound the team for 3 decades in the local championship.
Real Madrid faces Osasuna this evening, Saturday, in the King’s Cup final, at La Cartuja Stadium in Seville, and appointed it to the twentieth title in its history.
Real Madrid is playing the King’s Cup final for the first time since the 2013-2014 season, in which the “Al-Merengue” defeated its rivals, Barcelona, with a score of 2-1.
Real Madrid will not only be in a difficult confrontation with Osasuna, but also with history, according to the Spanish newspaper “Sport”, given that the “royal” failed to win the title for 30 years, against a competitor other than Barcelona.
The last time Real Madrid won the King’s Cup against a team other than Barcelona was in the 1992-1993 season, when it beat Real Zaragoza 2-0 with goals from Emilio Butragueño and Mikel Lasa, under the leadership of coach Benito Floro.
After that, Real Madrid reached the final match 5 times, losing 3 of them against Depotivo La Coruña, Real Zaragoza, and Atletico Madrid, while winning the other two matches against Barcelona.
Deportivo spoiled Real Madrid’s centenary celebrations, beating it 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu, in the final of the 2001-2002 season.
Real Madrid requested that the 2002 Copa del Rey final be played at the Santiago Bernabéu on the day it turned 100 and they were granted. Deportivo de La Coruña attended as a ‘guest’, won 2-1 and spoiled the party. Centenary? CENTENARY! pic.twitter.com/K2UJS0apLc
— David Mosquera (@renaldinhos) March 6, 2023
In that confrontation, the away team advanced with two goals through Sergio Gonzalez and Diego Tristan (5 and 35), but the goal of Raul Gonzalez (58) did not intercede for Real Madrid to return.
On a second occasion, Real Madrid met the same fate, but against another competitor, Real Zaragoza, in the 2003-2004 season.
At the Louis Companes Olympic Stadium (Montjuic), Real Madrid took the lead through David Beckham (23), but Danny equalized after 4 minutes, before David Villa put his Zaragoza team ahead from the penalty spot a minute before the end of the first half.
Montjüic, March 17, 2004. Víctor Muñoz’s Zaragoza beat Carlos Queiroz’s Real Madrid Galactico 3-2 with a goal by Luciano Galletti in the 110th minute and was proclaimed champion of the Copa del Rey for the sixth time in its history . pic.twitter.com/CeFYxi03g2
— David Mosquera (@renaldinhos) March 17, 2023
Roberto Carlos equalized for Real Madrid two minutes after the start of the second half, then the “Meringue” failed to take advantage of the numerical shortage in the ranks of Zaragoza after Robin Kani was sent off in the 68th minute.
Guti joined Kani in the sixth minute of the first extra period, and Luciano Galletti snatched the winning goal for Zaragoza in the 111th minute.
And the scenario of falling in the final, specifically at the Santiago Bernabeu, was repeated, this time against arch-rivals Atletico Madrid in the 2012-2013 season.
On May 17, 2013, Cristiano Ronaldo put his Real Madrid team ahead in the 14th minute, before Diego Costa equalized for the “Roky Blancos” in the 35th.
Atlético had gone 25 games and over 13 years without beating Real Madrid.
They put that to an end by winning the Copa del Rey final in 2013 💪
(via @deportes_rtve)pic.twitter.com/0PJ3Ttozn2
— B/R Football (@brfootball) February 24, 2023
The match extended to two additional halves, in which Joao Miranda managed to score the winning goal in the 98th minute, knowing that Cristiano was sent off with a red card in the 114th minute.
But Real Madrid climbed the podium on two occasions after playing the final against rival Barcelona, winning the first 1-0 with a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2010-2011 season, then repeating that 2-1 with goals from Angel Di Maria and Gareth Bale while Marc Bartra scored for Barca in the 2010-2011 season. 2013-2014, and the two meetings were held at Mestalla Stadium.
2023-05-06 19:01:06
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