Real Madrid, without Thibaut Courtois left to rest, gave himself a real scare on Thursday during the eighth final of the Copa del Rey which pitted him against Celta Vigo and which finally saw him emerge 5-2 in overtime.
Comfortably in front of the scoreboard thanks to the goals of Kylian Mbappé (37th) and Vinicius Junior (48th), the Merengues liquefied at the end of regulation time by being joined by the goals of Bamba (83rd) and Alonso (90e+1).
Dragged into overtime, the Madrid club finally got out of trouble thanks to its Brazilian nugget Endrickauthor of a beautiful sequence concluded by a powerful strike (108th) then an intelligent backheel (119th). A prune in the skylight Federico Valverde (112th) also allowed Real Madrid to have a calm final few minutes to reach the quarter-finals.
-Earlier in the evening, Athletic Bilbao, defending champion, was eliminated by its Basque neighbor Osasuna (3-2) and Real Sociedad qualified without trembling against Rayo Vallecano (3-1).
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