Real Madrid suffered a humiliating 2-1 home defeat by Leganes on
Wednesday to exit the King’s Cup at the quarter-final stage on away goals.
A much-changed Real side,
missing the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, held a 1-0 advantage
from the first leg.
But their troubled season hit a
new low as they were outplayed by a team lying 13th in La Liga.
Leganes started brightly and
Claudio Beauvue sent a free kick against the post in the opening exchanges, and
the visitors were deservedly level on aggregate after half an hour.
A mishap between Achraf Hakimi
and Nacho allowed Javier Eraso the space to produce a stunning finish from
outside the box.
Beauvue sent a volley into the
side netting on the stroke of half-time as a shell-shocked Real were jeered off
the pitch at the break.
That appeared to bring about a
reaction from the home side and Karim Benzema produced a neat finish from an
acute angle immediately after the restart.
This put Zinedine Zidane’s men
ahead on aggregate.
Leganes centre-back Dimitris
Siovas missed a gilt-edged chance as he headed back across the six-yard box
with the goal gaping.
But moments later Gabriel Pires
made no mistake as he thumped home a header to put Leganes through on away
goals.
They joined Valencia, who
defeated last season’s finalists Alaves on penalties earlier on Wednesday, and
Sevilla, who knocked out Atletico Madrid on Tuesday, in the draw for the last
four.
League leaders FC Barcelona
host Espanyol on Thursday, trailing 1-0 from the first leg in the last
quarter-final fixture.(Reuters/NAN)
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