Copa del Rey: Atlético de Madrid win it with a goal scored in Scaloneta but Real go through to the semifinals after a perfect extension

The world champions with the Argentine national team in Qatar Rodrigo DePaul, Angelo Correa Y Nicholas Molina they left their mark but could not prevent the defeat of Atletico Madrid with real Madridwho advanced to the semifinals of the King’s Cup after coming back to win 3-1 at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Athletic also qualified by winning the same result at Valencia in the other match of the day.

Alvaro Morata give Atlético Madrid the lead (19), but Rodrygo tied (79) to send the game to overtime, where goals by Karim Benzema (104) and Vinicio Jr. (120+1) kicked off the meringues.

The local team begins to dominate the match, but without doing any real damage, while the team led by the Argentine Diego Simeone, well armed in defence, manages to strike at the first clear opportunity. It is with a great collective play in which De Paul and Correa participated and which ended in the center of Molina from the right that Morata defined.

Merengue’s team had to wait for the second half to turn the game around, blocking Atlético, who withdrew to try and go on the counterattack.

With his pressure looking for the goal, Ancelotti inserts Rodrygo for Valverde (69′) and Marco Asensio for Toni Kroos (73′) and gets the desired results.

Just ten minutes after entering, Rodrygo enters the area, dribbling past his opponents and launching a shot near the post to make it 1-1 and send the match into extra time, where Benzema completes the comeback with a shot just from the post and Vinicio doomed in the end.

Previously, Athletic Bilbao also qualified for the semi-finals by beating Valencia, again 3-1: Athletic took the lead with a goal from Iker Muniain (35′), Valencia equalized with a goal against Óscar de Marcos (43′), but at the end At the end of the interval Nico Williams made it 2-1 (45) and Mikel Vesga condemned from a penalty (74).