The Frenchman saw his side ripped apart by at Santiago Bernabeu in a pulsating Copa del Rey quarter-final <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Zinedine Zidane\u2019s 250th official match in charge of Real Madrid did not\u00a0go to plan, as his side conceded four goals in a game for the first time under his management.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Madrid were dumped out of the Copa del Rey at the quarter-final stage after a hugely entertaining 4-3 home defeat to Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n
Martin Odegaard, on loan at Sociedad from Madrid, pulled the strings from midfield and scored his first goal at Santiago Bernabeu to see the away side leading at the break.<\/p>\n \n More teams<\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A brace from Alexander Isak put Sociedad three goals up before Marcelo pulled one back, but former Newcastle man Mikel Merino came off the bench to restore the cushion.<\/p>\n Goals from Rodrygo and Nacho brought Madrid back into the game in the dying moments, with Sergio Ramos heading straight at the goalkeeper with seconds to play.<\/p>\n Things could have been even worse for Madrid, as Sociedad missed a number of chances in the first-half and Isak saw another goal ruled out for offside by VAR. Vinicius Junior also had a goal disallowed for the hosts.<\/p>\n It was an unexpectedly poor defensive performance, with Madrid currently holding the best record in Europe\u2019s top five leagues in terms of goals conceded.<\/p>\n Indeed, they currently have their best-ever defensive record at this stage of a league season, with just 13 goals conceded in 22 games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The last time Madrid conceded four goals in a game was the 4-1 humiliation at home to Ajax in last season\u2019s Champions League, when Santi Solari was at the helm.<\/p>\n The result also saw Madrid continue an unwanted, if rather obscure, run of results at home.<\/p>\n They are without a win at the Bernabeu in any one-legged elimination match this century in all competitions.<\/p>\n This was their third attempt, having previously been beaten in the Copa del Rey final on home soil against Deportivo La Coruna in 2002 and Atletico Madrid in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Odegaard\u2019s goal provoked an angry reaction from some Madrid fans; the Norwegian\u2019s excellent form for Sociedad has left some wondering why he was not kept in the Madrid squad this season.<\/p>\n Having already claimed the Supercopa de Espana, Madrid will now have to refocus their desire to win silverware elsewhere.<\/p>\n They lead Barcelona by three points at the top of La Liga, and will face Manchester City in the last 16 of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Frenchman saw his side ripped apart by at Santiago Bernabeu in a pulsating Copa del Rey quarter-final Zinedine Zidane\u2019s 250th official match in charge of Real Madrid did not\u00a0go to plan, as his side conceded four goals in a game for the first time under his management. Madrid were dumped out of the Copa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}