Copa del Rey: Endrick rescata to Real Madrid. El campeón Athletic cae ante Osasuna

MADRID (AP) – El Real Madrid needs Endrick’s games in a few days at Celta de Vigo in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey and evitar other debacle a pocos días de perder 5-2 ante Barcelona en la finalen de la Supercopa de Spain.

Federico Valverde also scored in extra time for Madrid to reach the quarter-finals after losing a 2-0 lead and tying the game 2-2 in the regulation time at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.

Kylian Mbappé and Vinicius Júnior anotaron en cada mitad, but Celta was recuperó with Goles by Jonathan Bamba in 83 minutes and Marcos Alonso en el tiempo descuento.

Endrick, who came on in the 79th, advanced to Madrid in the extension with a shot from outside the area in the 108th and then sold the victory in the 119th after Valverde increased the lead in the 112th.

“Esto es el Madrid, luchar hasta el final para ganar”, says Endrick. “Nunca nos vamos al suelo, siempre luchamos. You have part of the fight, but you have to have a good fight. Sabíamos que en la prorroga teníamos que correr más, hacer más, subir”.

This is Endrick’s first season as a merengue player and the 18-year-old attacker who arrived from Palmeiras has not had much protagonism with the technician Carlo Ancelotti.

“Son goles muy importantes para mí”, said Endrick. “Me gusta este partido, este estadio, la afición… Ahora a trainar, que tenemos más por delante”.

Madrid was looking for a placid victory to get past the loss to Barcelona in the Supercopa final. It also fell 4-0 to its classic rival Catalan the last time they faced each other, in the Spanish League in October.

El cuadro merengue also maintains a pulse with Atlético de Madrid at the top of the Spanish League and seeks to re-point positions at the league stage of the League of Champions.

Fue el primero de una serie de tres partidos en casa para el Madrid, que el domingo recibe a Las Palmas en la Liga y el miercoles se enfrente al Salzburgo de Austria en la Liga de Campeones.

Mbappé put an advantage to Madrid in the 37th minute when he took a ball in the center of the field and packed it towards the area of ​​Celta, defining it with a zurdazo. It was Mbappé’s second goal in his last five games with Madrid. Vinícius marcó is primer gol en cinco partidos al culminar con clase un contragolpe a los 48.

El Celta se quejó después de Madrid’s first goal al arguing that archer Andry Lunin committed a penalty to one of his players before Mbappé’s career. See the request for revision a video, but it is determined that it is nothing.

Los visitors se acercaron cuando el volante merengue Eduardo Camavinga lost possession near the area and Bamba did not forgive. The tie fell at the start of stoppage time with a penalty converted by Alonso after Bamba was knocked down inside the area.

El campeón defensor dethroned

Athletic Bilbao overcame a two-goal deficit in the first half but ended up losing 3-2 to Osasuna.

The visitors took the lead with goals from Aimar Oroz in the 40th and Ante Budimir in the 44th. El Athletic equalized with the goals of Nico Williams in the second half and Óscar de Marcos in the 55th.

Budimir scored the victory goal in the 70th to take Osasuna to the next round of two years after they eliminated Athletic in the semifinals.

También el jueves, la Real Sociedad avanzó al defeater 3-1 to visitante Rayo Vallecano.

On Wednesday, Barcelona followed up their 5-2 victory over Madrid in the Supercopa de España last weekend with a comfortable 5-1 victory over Real Betis. Atlético de Madrid defeated second division club Elche 4-0, while Getafe won 1-0 against fourth division team Pontevedra and Leganés won 3-2 against second division team Almería.

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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a tool for artificial generative intelligence.