Real Madrid will not celebrate an eventual victory in the Copa del Rey final this weekend in the capital, but “in the days after” next Saturday’s final that will be played this Saturday in Seville by the Merengue team and Osasuna, reported the municipal government spokesperson, Inmaculada Sanz.
“It is true that even if that victory occurred, the club has transferred that the official celebration would not be that same night (on Saturday) or the following day, because the club is competing in the Champions League and has important games,” Sanz stressed in the Press conference after the Governing Board.
Carlo Ancelotti’s team faces Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City next Tuesday (9:00 p.m.) in the first leg of the semifinals of the highest European competition, the main objective of the white team.
The spokesperson for the municipal Executive has indicated that, although the white club does not officially celebrate the possible triumph of the Copa del Rey, it is possible that “a spontaneous celebration” of meringue fans who go to the Plaza de Cibeles, where Real Madrid fans usually celebrate victories. In this sense, she has said that a “prevention” device will be ready to avoid any altercation.
Since Gareth Bale’s self-pass and fast run at the Mestalla that gave Real Madrid its nineteenth Copa del Rey in 2014, the white team has not returned to a tournament final and has navigated between embarrassing eliminations, against Alcoyano, Leganés or with a improper alignment in Cádiz, falling in two round of 32, some eighths, four quarters and one semifinal.
The closest time Real Madrid came to returning to the stage of the Cup final was in 2019 but Barcelona prevented it with their conquest of the Bernabéu. He had obtained a valuable draw at the Camp Nou in the first leg of the semifinals, thanks to a goal from Lucas Vázquez, but in the return he collapsed in the second half before a double from Uruguayan Luis Suárez and an own goal from Frenchman Raphael Varane ( 0-3).
The rest of the eliminations of the third team with the most conquests in the Copa del Rey, after Barcelona and Athletic Club, came against Atlético de Madrid in 2015 and Celta de Vigo in 2017 in qualifiers still in two legs, in the round of 16 and quarterfinals respectively, and already a single game away they fell at the Bernabéu against Real Sociedad in 2020 and at San Mamés in the last edition, both in the quarterfinals. In La Cartuja, look for a successor to Bale.
