Atlético de Madrid calmly face Elche in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey

Reduced to ten with the expulsion of Fernandez-Mercau at the start of the second half on a second yellow (50th), Elche sank into numerical inferiority. The Madrilenians rolled with a third goal from Rodrigo Riquelme (61st). The Spanish international then gave way to Thomas Lemar (73rd). A small event for the 2018 world champion who plays very rarely. Following the entry into play of the French international alongside Julian Alvarez, the Argentinian scored the fourth goal on one of his first balls (75th) to definitively send Atlético de Madrid to the quarter-finals.