Monumental ridicule. the Athletic of Madrid, Leader of The league in Spain, was eliminated in the second round of World War II King’s Cup to lose 1-0 this Wednesday on the field of UE Cornellà.
the nemesis of the Athletic was carried out by the seventh classified one of subgroup To of group III of Second Division B, The third most important category in Spanish football.
- budget Athletic of Madrid: 515 million euros.
- budget UE Cornellà: 800,000 euros, the biweekly salary of ‘Cholo’ Simeone, Atlético coach.
The only goal of the match was scored Adrián Jiménez for the Barcelona team in the 7th minute, with a cross shot in the middle of In Medina, To beat the goalkeeper Miguel San Román.
If the elimination was not enough in front of such an inferior rival on paper, the ridiculous ‘mattress’ is further magnified by him not being able to at least finish in goal over 90 minutes plus the five aggregate.
Joao Felix, angel Correa, Lucas Torreira, Saül, José María Giménez, Savic, Lodi, Philip, Among other regulars of the Madrid team, were part of the game in this disastrous cup performance of the current leader of the highest category of football in Spain.
The ‘mattress’ team was the largest among the participants in this round and was the big disappointment, crashing in front of a formation of second B as in last season, when he was eliminated in the last 16 by the cultural Leonesa.
Atlético are again eliminated from the Cup even one round earlier, in a match for which Diego Simeone had given rest to several important men like Luis Suárez, Koke Resurrection, Marc Llorente or the archer Jan Oblak.
the ‘Cholo‘ Simeone has been removed in the King’s Cup for the eighth campaign in a row after his only cup conquest in 2013:
✖2014 Semifinals against Real Madrid
✖2015 Quarterfinals against Barcelona
✖2016 Quarterfinals against Celta
✖2017 Semifinals against Barcelona
✖2018 Quarterfinals against Sevilla
✖2019 Round of 16 against Girona
✖2020 Sixteenth round against Leonese
✖2021 Second round against Cornellà