Press | match report:
Real Madrid lost the first leg of the Spanish Cup tie against Alcorcon 4-0 away from home. Thus in order to go through to the next round Real Madrid would need to score at least 5 goals at the Bernabeu. So in the days leading up to the match the press had been reviewing the history in order to find examples of Real Madrid overcoming a 4-0 deficit. The club had overcome such adversity before throughout the history so the hopes were high for a strong rebound. But… It all came to nothing since the match ended with a narrow 1-0 victory on a late goal by Van Der Vaart in the 81th minute.
The crowd was not pleased and predictably the media neither so. The Real Madrid team and coach Manuel Pellegrini were roasted in all post-match analyses throughout the entire media spectra: print media , radio , television. That FC Barcelona won 5-0 at home against a Segunda B team like Alcorcon and that Atletico Madrid won 6-1 against Marbella also a lower ranking club did not make matters better.
portado Spanish press Real Madrid - Alcorcon
The Madrid sportspaper AS speaks of “siniestro total” – total wreck with a large photo of Pellegrini on the frontpage. Furthermore it goes: Pellegrini agota el credito – “Pellegrini has no more credit left”.
The substitution of Lass provoked the anger of the crowd. Sergio Ramos could have played but nobody knew.
Pellegrini defends himself saying: “Lass was not the one who was going to score 4 goals anyway”.
See the substitution of Lass:
Each player gets a note from 3 – 1 | 3 being the highest and 0 being failed.
Dudek – 0 (Alcorcon did not score so why Dudek deserves such a grading is hard to figure out)
Lass – 3
Pepe – 2
Albiol – 1
Arbeloa – 0
Gago – 0
Diarra – 0
Higuain – 1
Kaka – 0
Raul – 0
v. Nistelrooy – 0
Marcelo – 1
v. der Vaart – 2
Man of the match Lass though he did not produce much offensively atleast he was strong at the back and good at robbing the ball from the opponent.
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