Zidane: “This is not a shame.” Report: The coach’s status has deteriorated

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What’s going on with Real Madrid? Just six days after being knocked out in the Spanish Super Cup semi-final (by Athletic Bilbao), the champion lost the chance to win another title. Tonight (Wednesday to Thursday), the Blancos were surprised by the humble Alciano in the final 32 of the Copa del Rey with a 2-1 loss in extra time. Adar Militau scored for the Whites, but Jose Solves forced another 30 minutes and Casanova stunned in the 115th minute with ten players for the team from the third division.

“We tried, the players gave everything on the pitch,” he tried to explain Zindin Zidane At the end. “It’s a hard and painful time. I’m in charge because I’m the coach. I think we’ve been successful this season to some extent, the players know what I’m asking of them and now we have to focus on the league and the champions.”

“I’m calm about my future at the club,” the coach continued. “I take full responsibility for the loss – let’s see what happens. I’m ready for anything. The worst loss? Everyone is bad but it’s not a shame. We did our best and things like that can happen in football. We are not going to go crazy but keep working hard. I think “All the players believe in me, but you have to ask them.”

While Zidane insists it is not a “shame”, Real Madrid are likely to see it differently – and it seems unlikely that he will even make a shock on the lines soon. According to a report in the Madrid media, the status of the French coach is again in doubt, this following the loss of two titles in less than a week, as well as two draws against Elche and Osasuna in the league that prevented the champion from clinging to the top.

The media in the Spanish capital of course mourned and left no one innocent: “What an embarrassment on the part of Madrid,” read the headline. “Real Black Night of Real Madrid. Alcoiano went down in history and put the white team in an indisputable crisis. The helplessness and lack of reaction on the part of Zidane’s team puts this whole project in question. No one can get rid of this ridiculous history.”

On the other hand, the Barcelona media, naturally, celebrated the “achievement”. “The era of Zinedine Zidane has reached the bottom,” read one of the headlines in the Mundo Deportivo. Another headline, in an opinion column, claimed: “Real Madrid made fun of themselves in front of ten Alciano players.”

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* Zidane has never won the Spanish Cup as a player or coach. He lost in two finals, to Deportivo La Coruna and Real Zaragoza as a player. As a coach, he did not make it to the quarterfinals of the factory and was eliminated 4 times in total.

* At the opponent’s goal was Jose Juan Figueres (41) who recorded ten stops – more than any other goalkeeper this season in all the factories against Real.

* Alcoiano is the first team in the lower league to oust Real since Alcorcon in 2009.

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