{"id":506628,"date":"2026-01-14T19:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=506628"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:44:17","slug":"albacete-shock-real-madrid-and-eliminate-them-from-copa-del-rey","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/albacete-shock-real-madrid-and-eliminate-them-from-copa-del-rey\/","title":{"rendered":"Albacete shock Real Madrid and eliminate them from Copa del Rey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid suffered a huge embarrassment as they were eliminated from the Copa del Rey by 2<sup>nd<\/sup> division Albacete in Alvaro Arbeloa&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> match as head coach of the club.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Liverpool and Los Blancos defender rested Kylian Mbappe, Rodrygo, Thibaut Courtois, and Jude Bellingham before the weekend\u2019s match in the league vs. Levante.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new manager shared that he had enough quality players that could have won this match and the only person that should be blamed for the defeat is him: \u201cIf anyone has responsibility for the elimination from Copa del Rey, it\u2019s only me. I\u2019m the one that pick the squad and our style on the pitch and who to enter the pitch from the bench,\u201d admitted Arbeloa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank the footballers for the way they welcomed me as head coach and for trying their best today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Albacete scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the game in the 42<sup>nd<\/sup> minute, but the result was 1-1 at halftime as Franco Mastantuono scored in the added time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\u274c Second division side Albacete beat and eliminate Real Madrid from the Copa del Rey!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1lvaro Arbeloa loses his first game as Real Madrid manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ibQMvNn2QF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ibQMvNn2QF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2011558695596142644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But substitute Jefte Betancor netted twice for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> division club as his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal was in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the extra time to secure Albacete&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> win against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid suffered a huge embarrassment as they were eliminated from the Copa del Rey by 2nd division Albacete in Alvaro Arbeloa&#8217;s 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":506629,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17375],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[25864],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Los Blancos are out of the tournament for the Spanish Cup.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506631,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506628\/revisions\/506631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506628"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=506628"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=506628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}