Mallorca beat Real Sociedad on penalties, after tying 1-1 at the end of the 90 minutes and extra time, and will be one of the finalists for La Cartuja on April 6.
I find that it started in the typical way in which this type of qualifying rounds do: with many inaccuracies, although it is fair to mention that Real started with one more point of lucidity and success, yes, without dangerous approaches. The flood of the first minutes did not help to make the show more attractive to the viewer either.
After the midway point of the first half, the first shot of the game came from Arsen Zakharyan from the edge of the area, which Dominik Greif caught in his arms without too much trouble.
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Mallorca responded well minutes later, with a shot from Cyle Larin that went wide of the left post defended by Álex Remiro.
The clearest chance of the first 45 minutes came in the form of a maximum penalty in favor of the Txuri Urdin team. Brais Méndez was in charge of launching it, although Grief guessed the Galician midfielder’s intentions and stopped the centered shot from eleven meters.
Penalties are something that, precisely, the midfielder has not been good at this season and that is that of three shots from the penalty spot, Brais has missed all three.
La Real, very academic in their game although without pull, and Mallorca, who played their cards well, entered the locker room tunnel, with much more satisfaction on the part of the vermillion footballers, who saw how they were almost put against them the eliminatory.
The restart couldn’t have started better for the Mallorcan club, with a goal from Giovanni González after an impeccable cross from Jaume Costa from the wing that put the royalist squad in check.
It was time to find a comeback for Real, who began to harass Mallorca in search of a goal that would give them the opportunity to go to extra time, first with a long shot from Javi Galán and followed by a dangerous cross from Take Kubo that found no finisher. In the area.
The San Sebastian club continued with that insistence against a Mallorca that found itself comfortable in that record of superiority without having possession, although without much clarity.
That’s when the captain of the txuri urdin team appeared. Mikel Oyarzabal, who had entered the field a few minutes later. A counterattack conducted in a fantastic way by the royalists ended in a superb finish in front of the goalkeeper after a pass into the space by Brais.
The positive inertia made Real acquire an astonishing superiority over the development of the match. Becker, with his particular overflow, launched a great shot from outside the area that was repelled by goalkeeper Greif for a corner.
In the final minutes of the match, the midfield was conspicuous by its absence. The game entered a phase of runner-up in which a goal gave you a pass to a Copa del Rey final. The doubt in this new context lay in knowing which team benefited the most.
La Real did not stop trying, although there was no way for Alguacil’s team to penetrate the red wall and the match would have to be decided in extra time.
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At the start of added time, the Txuri Urdin club had a very clear double chance to take the lead on the scoreboard, first with a shot by Mikel Merino cleared on the goal line, and then a rebound that Kieran Tierney shot at point-blank range, cleared by Samu Costa with the head and also under the sticks, which had to be reviewed by the VAR, since the ball did not completely cross the line.
After the break, the game continued in that phase of lack of control which, added to the logical fatigue of both squads, resulted in few occasions. What followed was the end of extra time, and therefore, the pass to the final of La Cartuja in the hands of Remiro and Greif.
And on penalties, we already know what can happen. Luck smiles on you, as it doesn’t. In this case, he did not smile at Mikel Oyarzabal who was the only one to miss one of the ten penalties taken. The first of them. And the football script is sometimes very cruel or very benevolent, since it always depends on the prism from which you look at it. Mallorca will be in the final at La Cartuja. They have to wait to find out if it will be against Atlético de Madrid or against Athletic Club.
Mallorca will play the fourth Copa del Rey final in its history after beating Real Sociedad in the penalty shootout this Tuesday at the Reale Arena, and its coach, the Mexican Javier Aguirre, the second since his arrival on the bench of the Spanish football in 2002.
The Balearic club had not qualified for the decisive clash of the cup tournament since 2003, when it was proclaimed champion by beating Recreativo de Huelva in Elche.
It is the only King’s Cup trophy that the vermillions display in their showcases in the 108 years of history of the entity; The other two finals were lost against Atlético de Madrid, in 1991, and Barcelona, in 1998.
Javier Aguirre, coach of the Mallorcan players since March 2022, led Osasuna in the 2005 final that the Navarrese lost in extra time (2-1) against Betis.
The history of Mallorca in the Copa del Rey finals began to be written with Lorenzo Ferrer on the bench. His team reached the decisive clash against Atlético de Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeú stadium after eliminating Sporting de Gijón in the semifinals.
A goal from Alfredo in the 61st minute gave the victory to the colchoneros led by Iselin Santos Ovejero against the Mallorca of Ezaki Badou, Miguel Ángel Nadal and Álvaro, among others.
Seven years later, the vermillions led by Argentine coach Héctor Cúper, returned to play in a final, which became legendary for its dramatic outcome.
Opposite was Louis Van Gaal’s Barça on the bench, and world figures like Figo, Luis Enrique, Rivaldo on the field.
The blaugranas were proclaimed champions in the penalty shootout (1-1 in regulation time) against a Mallorca that resisted heroically with nine players on the pitch, and in which Stankovic missed the maximum penalty that gave his team the title. equipment.
In 2003, Gregorio Manzano’s Mallorca lifted the Copa del Rey trophy, defeating Lucas Alcaraz’s Recreativo de Huelva 3-0 at the Martínez Valero stadium in Elche.
With the Argentines Leo Franco, Ariel “Caño” Ibagaza, the Uruguayan Walter “Rifle” Pandiani and the Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o, among others, the Vermillions celebrated the first official title in their history in a big way.
2024-02-27 23:34:17
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