Torres Bungkam Kepongahan Real Madrid di Laga Copa del Rey
Torres Back with a Bang to Send Ballon d`Or Winner Crashing Out
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Madrid (B2B) - Dua gol Fernando Torres membuat Atletico Madrid melenggang ke perempat-final setelah bermain imbang 2-2 (agregat 4-2) di leg kedua Copa del Rey di Santiago Bernabeu.
Atletico memimpin lewat gol Torres menit satu dan 46. Kemudian dibalas oleh Sergio Ramos menit 20 dan Cristiano Ronaldo menit 54.
Dengan kemenangan ini Atletico Madrid melaju ke delapan besar menunggu pemenang antara Barcelona atau Elche.
Atletico Madrid diuntungkan di leg kedua ini karena menang melawan Madrid 2-0 di leg pertama Copa del Rey di Vicente Calderon.
Meskipun unggul agregat, Atletico tidak mengendurkan serangan sejak menit awal. Malah, pemain yang baru didatangkan dari Chelsea, Fernando Torres mencetak dua gol untuk Atletico, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Dua gol itu tercipta di awal babak pertama, yakni menit satu. Dan awal babak kedua, yakni menit 46. Keduanya pun berasal dari umpan Griezmann.
Fernando Torres telah mencetak gol pertamanya di semua kompetisi klub sejak Oktober 2013.
Sementara Real Madrid menyamakan kedudukan lewat sundulan Sergio Ramos menit 20 dan Cristiano Ronaldo menit 54. Namun, kedua gol itu tak bisa membantu Madrid lolos ke fase berikutnya karena kalah agregat 2-4.
Menjelang akhir laga, Madrid terlihat agak frustasi karena tak bisa menambah pundi-pundi gol. Dengan diberi kartu kuningnya pemain Madrid, yakni Marcelo, Dani Carvajal, dan Isco.
Sementara pemain Atletico yang diberi kartu kuning, yakni Diego Godin, Tiago, Koke, dan Raul Garcia.
Madrid menguasai 63 persen pertandingan, sementara Atletico 37 persen. Dengan tendangan ke arah gawang tujuh berbanding dua untuk keunggulan Madrid.
Madrid - Fernando Torres scored twice as Atletico Madrid ended Real Madrid's defense of the Copa del Rey title with a 2-2 draw on Thursday, maintaining its dominance over its crosstown rival this season.
Atletico advanced 4-2 on aggregate and will play Barcelona in the quarterfinals after it won 4-0 at Elche to move on 9-0 over both legs.
Torres stunned the Santiago Bernabeu by striking from Antoine Griezmann's pass seconds into the Spanish capital derby.
Sergio Ramos made it 1-1 soon after, but Atletico hung on in its area until Griezmann set up Torres for his second goal just after the halftime restart.
Cristiano Ronaldo leveled the score again in an otherwise subdued night he began by parading his Ballon d'Or trophy, leaving Real needing three more goals in 36 minutes to advance.
Since losing last season's Champions League final to Real, the team managed by Diego Simeone has beaten its main rivals in the Spanish Super Cup, the league, and the Copa del Rey. It improved its record against Real to four wins, three draws, and three losses since it broke a 14-year, 25-match winless streak with a victory in the 2013 Copa del Rey final.
Madrid continued to sputter with only one win in its last four matches since finishing 2014 on a Spanish record 22-win streak.
Hyped for a comeback, the Real faithful greeted Atletico's bus with a sea of raucous supporters that Spanish police had to part with officers on horseback.
