Atlético de Madrid fell on penalties against Real Sociedad and lost the final of the Copa del Rey Atlético de Madrid let glory slip away and fell on penalties against Real Sociedad in the grand final of the 2025/26 Copa del Rey, played at the La Cartuja Stadium. After a vibrant 2-2 in regulation time, Diego Simeone’s team failed to sustain the definition from twelve steps and was left at the gates of the title. The start was a direct blow to the chin. At 15 seconds, the Basque team surprised with a precise play: Gonçalo Guedes sent a perfect cross and Ander Barrenetxea connected with a header to make it 1-0. A devastating start that set the tone for a final full of intensity. Far from reacting immediately, Atlético suffered the rival impulse. Barrenetxea warned again minutes later, although this time he found Juan Musso’s response. However, when things were worst, the mattress team found a hierarchical response. At 18 minutes, Antoine Griezmann filtered a surgical pass for Ademola Lookman, who hit a powerful left foot shot from the crescent to make it 1-1. The Nigerian, in a moment of exceptional form, appeared again in a big event. The match maintained a high pace and back and forth. Lookman went close to a second before the break, but his shot went just wide. And when the first half seemed to end in a draw, another decisive action arrived. At 44 minutes, Musso came out to cut the ball and committed a penalty on Guedes. Mikel Oyarzabal assumed responsibility and, with class, deceived the Argentine goalkeeper for the 2-1 that returned the advantage to Real Sociedad. In the complement, Simeone moved the bench in search of a reaction. Offensive variants such as Alexander Sørloth and Thiago Almada entered, in a clear attempt to change the dynamics of the match. When Atlético couldn’t find answers, his figure emerged. At 82 minutes, Almada assisted Julián Álvarez, who settled in and hit a powerful right hand to make it 2-2. A goal that unleashed the madness of the mattress bench and reopened the final. The emotional boost was immediate. Marcos Llorente overflowed and created a clear chance that Álex Baena could not capitalize on. Shortly after, Julián was once again decisive with a brilliant assist for Johnny Cardoso, but goalkeeper Unai Marrero responded with an extraordinary save. Real Sociedad also had theirs: Takefusa Kubo and Orri Óskarsson again demanded Musso, while Julián was centimeters away from the third with a shot that shook the crossbar. Penalties: from the dream to the final blow With no differences on the scoreboard, the definition came from twelve steps. There, Atlético failed at the start: Sørloth and Julián Álvarez could not convert, and although Musso supported the team with a save, it was not enough. The person in charge of sealing the glory was Pablo Marín, who converted the decisive penalty to unleash the celebration of the Basque team and leave Atlético empty-handed in a final that had everything. 🔥 JOIN THE COMMUNITY! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚽ Subscribe to this channel here: ▶ http://bit.ly/2hPVLcH 🎮 Visit my Gaming Channel (GAYMERPC): ▶ https://bit.ly/3kieD1T 📩 CONTACT AND BUSINESS For commercial inquiries or collaborations: 📧 leocalidad86@hotmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ NOTICE LEGAL AND CREDITS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ © Copyright: All rights reserved on images and clips of video. ⚠️ Fair Use: This content may include third-party material used under the “Fair Use” guidelines for the purposes of criticism, comment or education. https://www.youtube.com/intl/es-419/about/copyright/fair-use/ 🎵 Music: YouTube Audio Library (Copyright-free).
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