Real Madrid will meet its counterpart, Atletico Madrid, in a hot derby in the Spanish capital, in the quarter-finals of the King’s Cup, next Thursday.
This confrontation will be the fifteenth between the two teams in the history of their meetings in the King’s Cup, following 14 previous confrontations.
In the following lines, Al Ain Sports sheds light on a set of facts regarding the capital’s derby in the King’s Cup.
History of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid confrontations in the King’s Cup
share Real Madrid And Atletico won the King’s Cup by 7 matches for each team, over the course of the 14 matches that brought them together from 1950 to 2015.
But Real Madrid suffered the last two times it suffered a loss from Atletico in the King’s Cup derby from the exclusion of coaches, and failed because of the derby to achieve historic doubles and trebles as well.
Disastrous scenes from the Madrid derby in the King’s Cup
It was one of the disastrous scenes that happened to Real Madrid in the King’s Cup derby once morest Atletico when it lost the final of the 1960 edition at its Santiago Bernabeu 1-3, where it was crowned in that year with the Champions League title, and later won the Intercontinental Cup for the first time in its history with a crushing victory 5-1 On the Uruguayan Peñarol.
But the loss to Atletico Madrid on June 26 prevented Real Madrid from achieving a historic treble, and prevented it from winning any local title that year.
Despite the royal progress through Hungarian Fernik Puskas following 20 minutes, the local opponent scored a hat-trick in the second half to crown the title, through Enrique Kollar, Miguel Jones and Joaquin Piero.
In 1961, on the same stadium, Al-Abyad lost the confrontation once more, but with a score of 2-3, and this time Real Madrid, if it won, would achieve the League and Cup double for the first time in its history, a double that was delayed until 1962 when it achieved it for the first time.
And once more, Puskas advanced to Real Madrid, Laird, with a hat-trick, through Piero “two goals” and the Portuguese Jorge Mendonca, before Alfredo Di Stefano narrowed the difference 8 minutes before the end.
In the last 3 defeats of Real Madrid once morest Atletico Madrid in the King’s Cup, the Merengue coach in that match was leaving at the end of the season, starting with the 1991-1992 season confrontation, when Al-Abyad lost the final with two clean goals through German Bernd Schuster and Portuguese Paulo Futeri.
Leo Benhacker, coach of the Netherlands in the 1990 World Cup, left the Meringue coach at the end of the season following a second term during which he failed to win any title.
After that, Real Madrid lost to Atletico Madrid 1-2 in the final of the 2013 edition, in a match that was the last in the Portuguese Jose Mourinho era with Al-Abyad, which began in 2010.
Mourinho left in the summer of 2013 following failing to win the King’s Cup, and before that he lost the Spanish League to Barcelona and bid farewell to the European Champions League once morest Borussia Dortmund in the semi-finals.
Similar to the two defeats of the sixties, Real started the match with goals through the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo “14”, but the Atlético responded with a double by Diego Costa and the Brazilian Miranda in the second half to turn the tables.
That match witnessed an exciting incident, which was the expulsion of Portuguese Jose Mourinho, as well as his compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo.
In total, Real Madrid lost 4 finals out of 5 once morest Atletico Madrid in the King’s Cup, all of them at the Santiago Bernabeu.
The last of the five disastrous scenes of Real Madrid once morest Atleti in the cup was in the final price of the 2014-2015 edition, which is the last confrontation between the two giants in the tournament.
The Atleti won at the Vicente Calderon stadium 2-0 through the double of Raul Garcia and Jose Jimenez, then tied once more 2-2, as Fernando Torres scored the goals of the local team, Sergio Ramos and Cristiano Ronaldo for the Whites.
The exit at the time from the King’s Cup was the beginning of the disastrous season for Real, following which the team came out 3-2 once morest Juventus in the aggregate of the two semi-final matches in the European Champions League, and lost the Spanish League title to Barcelona.
And those results, which began once morest Atletico, caused the departure of Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti from coaching the team at the end of his second season.
What the Italian fears is that the current season is also his second with Real Madrid following a first season that witnessed his coronation in the European Champions League, which is the same scenario as 2014-2015, and therefore the repetition of disastrous scenarios remains very likely.
